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Andrew Marvell

I lived from 1621-1678. I was from England, and am in the English category.

One of the English "Metaphysical Poets". Educated in Cambridge, he worked as a clerk, traveled abroad, and returned to serve as tutor to Lord Fairfax's daughter in Yorkshire.  In 1657 he was appointed John Milton's assistant in the Latin secretaryship, and in 1659 he was elected to Parliament, where he served until his death in 1678.

He was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as being a Puritan and a public defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poetry, which includes “The Garden,” “The Definition of Love,” “Bermudas,” and “To His Coy Mistress,” and for his “Horatian Ode” to Cromwell.

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  • To His Coy Mistress
    Had we but World enough, and Time,
    This coyness Lady were no crime.
    47 lines, 14 comments
  • The Definition Of Love
    My Love is of a birth as rare
    As 'tis for object strange and high:
    40 lines, 5 comments
  • A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body
    Soul
    O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise
    53 lines, 5 comments
  • Music's Empire
    First was the world as one great cymbal made,
    Where jarring winds to infant Nature played.
    24 lines
  • Young Love
    Come little Infant, Love me now,
    While thine unsuspected years
    40 lines
  • Eyes And Tears
    How wisely Nature did decree,
    With the same Eyes to weep and see!
    56 lines, 3 comments
  • On A Drop Of Dew
    See how the Orient Dew,
    Shed from the Bosom of the Morn
    41 lines
  • The Mower To The Glow-Worms
        Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
        The nightingale does sit so late,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • The Garden
    How vainly men themselves amaze
    To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes;
    72 lines, 4 comments
  • The Coronet
    When for the Thorns with which I long, too long,
    With many a piercing wound,
    27 lines
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