Andrew Marvell Quotes

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.

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Had we but world enough, and time

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.

My vegetable love will grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.

To wander solitary there:
Two paradises ‘twere in one
To live in paradise alone.

What wondrous life in this I lead
Ripe apples drop about my head