Andrew Marvell Quotes


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


Citations

Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress." Miscellaneous Poems, Robert Boulter, 1681, p. 20.

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Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell
  • Born: March 31, 1621
  • Died: August 16, 1678
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", and the later personal and political satires "Flecknoe" and "The Character of Holland".