Andrew Marvell Quotes

As lines, so loves oblique may well
Themselves in every angle greet;
But ours so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

Могилы - не дурной приют, но там обняться не дают.

As lines, so love's oblique, may well
Themselves in every angle greet :
But ours, so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.

Music, the mosaic of the air

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind.

But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.

For Juliana comes, and she, what I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
So Man, declining always, disappears
In the weak circles of increasing years;
And his short tumults of themselves compose,
While flowing Time above his head does close.

Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.

Where the remote Bermudas ride,
In th' ocean's bosom unespied.

To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

If these the Times, then this must be the Man.

[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]