86 Quotes by Andrew Marvell

I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ To be a little wilderness.

he world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.

I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.

Who can foretell for what high cause / This darling of the Gods was born?

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.

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 glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...