1. Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, Parliamentarian, and the son of a Church of England clergyman. As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with John Donne and George Herbert. He was a colleague and friend of John Milton.Marvell was more.. more..

2. “ Andrew Marvell:An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. #Age and Aging#Age and Aging

3. “ Andrew Marvell:So much one man can do, That does both act and know. #Action#Action

4. “ Andrew Marvell:She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind. #Freedom#Freedom

5. “ Andrew Marvell:In busy companies of men. #Business#Business

6. “ Andrew Marvell:The world in all doth but two nations bear — The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere. #America#America

7. “ Andrew Marvell:No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place. #Love#Love

8. “ Andrew Marvell:My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. #Marriage#Marriage

9. “ Andrew Marvell:But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. #Sex#Sex

10. “ Andrew Marvell:Love's whole world on us doth wheel. #Love#Love

11. “ Andrew Marvell:The inglorious arts of peace. #Peace#Peace

12. “ Andrew Marvell:Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. #Beauty#Beauty

13. “ Andrew Marvell:Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. #Life and Living#Life and Living

14. “ Andrew Marvell: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. #Happiness#Happiness

15. “ Andrew Marvell:Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. #Laughter#Laughter

16. “ Andrew Marvell: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. #Charm#Charm

17. “ Andrew Marvell:Popery is such a thing as cannot, but for want of a word to express it, be called a religion; nor is it to be mentioned with that civility which is otherwise decent to be used in speaking about the differences of human opinion about divine matters...There has now for divers years a design been carried on, to change the lawful government of England into an absolute tyranny, and to convert the established Protestant religion into downright Popery...If under his present Majesty we have as yet seen no more visible effects of the same spirit than the firing of London...it is not to be attributed to the good nature or better principles of that sect, but to the wisdom of his Holiness, who observes that we are not of late so dangerous Protestants as to deserve any special mark of his indignation, but that we may be made better use of to the wrecking of those that are of our religion, and that if he do not disturb us, there are those amongst ourselves that are leading us into a fair way of reconciliation with him. #Enlightenment#Enlightenment

18. “ Andrew Marvell: But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near. #Time and Time Management#Time and Time Management

19. “ Andrew Marvell: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. #Self-love#Self-love

20. “ Andrew Marvell:Orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green light. #Anger#Anger

21. “ Andrew Marvell:To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate. #Law and Lawyers#Law and Lawyers

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