Quotes from The Complete Poems
15 notable lines from Andrew Marvell · 1681
Had we but world enough and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime.
Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
Opening lines, "To His Coy Mistress" But at my back I always hear / Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
"To His Coy Mistress" The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace.
To His Coy Mistress Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.
The Garden My vegetable Love should grow / Vaster than Empires, and more slow.
"To His Coy Mistress" Thus, though we cannot make our Sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Closing couplet, "To His Coy Mistress" My Love is of a birth as rare / As 'tis for object strange and high: / It was begotten by Despair / Upon Impossibility.
Opening stanza, "The Definition of Love" He nothing common did or mean / Upon that memorable scene,
On the execution of Charles I, "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" But bow'd his comely head / Down, as upon a bed.
On the execution of Charles I, "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night;
"Bermudas" Society is all but rude, / To this delicious Solitude.
"The Garden" Two Paradises 'twere in one / To live in Paradise alone.
"The Garden" The same arts that did gain / A pow'r, must it maintain.
Closing lines, "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" Therefore the Love which us doth bind, / But Fate so enviously debarrs, / Is the Conjunction of the Mind, / And Opposition of the Stars.
Closing stanza, "The Definition of Love"