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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: andrew marvell Matches Found: 90 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE RESOLVED SOUL AND CREATED PLEASURE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courage my soul, now learn to wield Last Line: And is thine everlasting store. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND BODY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, who shall from this dungeon raise / a soul enslaved so many ways? Last Line: Green trees that in the forest grew. Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Soul; Illness A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THYRSIS AND DORINDA, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When death shall part [or, snatch] us from these kids Last Line: So shall we smoothly pass away in sleep. Subject(s): Country Life A DROP OF DEW, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the orient dew Last Line: Into the glories of the almighty sun. Variant Title(s): On A Drop Of Dew Subject(s): Christianity; Dew; Nature A LETTER TO DOCTOR INGELO, WITH LORD WHITLOCK TO QUEEN OF SWEDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How now, dear exile to the northern zone Last Line: And may our strains, though light, some pleasure bring! Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689); Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL, THE LORD PROTECTOR, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That providence which had so long the care Last Line: He threats no deluge, yet fore tells a showre. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; Dead, The AFTER FLOODS ON THE WHARFE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How safe, methinks, and strong, behind AMETAS AND THESTYLIS MAKING HAY-ROPES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou that this love can stand Last Line: And go kiss within the hay. AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MY LORD FRANCIS VILLIERS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true that he is dead: but yet to chuse Last Line: To be at once his trophee and his tombe. AN EPITAPH UPON FRANCES JONES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough; and leave the rest to fame Last Line: Twas more significant, she's dead. AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The forward youth that would appear Last Line: A power must it maintain. Variant Title(s): Two Kings Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Ireland; Irish ANDREW MARVELL, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source Last Line: Another generation than ours. --future gem %--joseph summers ANDREW MARVELL, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, that lookest from the starry fold Last Line: And feel how nobly all may live and die. Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean CHERRY-RIPE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cherrie ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry Last Line: All the yeare, where cherries grow CLARINDON'S HOUSE-WARMING, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When clarindon had discern'd before hand Last Line: He comes to be roasted next st. James's faire. Subject(s): Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon CLORINDA AND DAMON, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damon, come drive thy flocks this way Last Line: For all the world is our pan's quire. Subject(s): Country Life DAMON THE MOWER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark how the mower damon sung Last Line: For death thou art a mower too. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Dead, The DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daphnis must from chloe part Last Line: Why did chloe once refuse? DEW, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how a little jewel of orient dew descends Last Line: It returns, purer, to the stars whence it fell EPIGRAM ON THE TWO MOUNTAINS OF AMOS-CLIFF AND BILBOROUGH, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold how almias-cliff and bilborough's brow Last Line: Let them, maria, thy parnassus be! Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EPIGRAMME UPON BLOOD'S ATTEMPT TO STEALE THE CROWN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When daring blood, his rents to have regain'd Last Line: A bishops cruelty, the crown was gone. Subject(s): Blood, Thomas (1618-1680) EYES AND TEARS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wisely nature did decree Last Line: These weeping eyes, those seeing tears. Subject(s): Eyes; Tears FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF GOVERNMENT UNDER (CROMWELL), SELS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not a freedom, that, where all command Last Line: Abd only didst for others plant the vine %of liberty, not drunken with its wine Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Freedom FLECKNO, AN ENGLISH PRIEST AT ROME, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oblig'd by frequent visits of this man Last Line: To hang it in saint peter's for a vow. FOR ANDREW MARVELL, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger of luster of swordplay is just a stick %on a sandpile Last Line: Magic I've taken from his hand and pressed like sharp sharp sand %into mine GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What madness so stirs the heart of man Last Line: O hours worthy to be numbered in herbs and flowers Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens And Gardening; Retirement; Solitude GARDEN OF APPLETON HOUSE LAID OUT BY LORD FAIRFAX, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the east the morning ray Last Line: We ordnance plant and powder sow Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening GREEN BROOM, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man lived out in the wood Last Line: There is none like the boy that sold broom, green broom HIS COY MISTRESS REPLIES, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Andrew marvell, you haven't read Last Line: Our mutual purpose is: our pleasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LAVENDER'S BLUE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green Last Line: Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm MAIDEN LAMENTING FOR HER FAWN, SELS., by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It us a wondrous thing how fleet MOURNING, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, that decipher out the fate Last Line: It is to be suppos'd they grieve. Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness MUSIC'S EMPIRE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First was the world as one great cymbal made Last Line: Would with you heavens hallelujahs raise. Subject(s): Music & Musicians NO SCENE THAT TURNS WITH ENGINES STRANGE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography NOSTRADAMUS'S PROPHECY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For faults and follies london's doom shall fix NYMPH AND THE FAUN [OR, FAWN]., by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sweetest milk and sugar first Variant Title(s): The Girl And Her Fawn; The Girl Describes Her Faw O FOR A BOOKE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for a booke and a shadie nooke Last Line: Is better to me than golde ON MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I beheld the poet blind yet bold Last Line: In number, weight, and measure, needs not rhime. Variant Title(s): On Paradise Lost Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) ON THE EMBASSY OF LORD OLIVER ST. JOHN TO UNITED PROVINCES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apt names to great men oft we see are given Last Line: Jerusalem's fate had naught less fine to hinge on. Subject(s): St. John, Oliver (1598-1673) ON THE LORD MAYOR ... PRESENTING THE LATE KING AND DUKE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The londoners gent to their king do present Last Line: Until you burn again, burn again. Variant Title(s): Upon The Citye's Going In A Body To Whitehall ON THE PORTRAIT OF OLIVER CROMWELL, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before this shadow oft his enemies fled Last Line: Beneath it lives secure the people led. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) ON THE SAME BEING SENT TO THE QUEEN OF SWEDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O virgin queen of the north, expert in war Last Line: My looks not always stern to royal friends. Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689) ON THE VICTORY OBTAINED BY ADMIRAL BLAKE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now does spain's fleet her spacious wings unfold Last Line: And tells the world, how much to you it owes. Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Sea Battles; Naval Warfare POEM FOR ANDREW MARVELL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) SONNET: ANDREW MARVELL'S 'DEFINITION OF LOVE', by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: "yet I rejoice, and take thee for my king." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land Last Line: Vainly in hell let pluto domineer. Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE CORONET, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When for the thorns which I long, too long Last Line: May crown thy feet, that could not crown thy head. Subject(s): Cross, The; Flowers THE DEFINITION OF LOVE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: And opposition of the stars. Subject(s): Absence; Fate; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny THE FAIR SINGER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a final conquest of all me Last Line: She having gained both the wind and sun. Subject(s): Love; Seduction THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF GOVERNMENT UNDER THE LORD PROTECTOR, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the vain curlings of the watry maze Last Line: "troubling the waters, yearly mak'st them heal." Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) THE GALLERY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clora [or, chlora], come view my soul, & tell / whether I have contrived it well Last Line: To crown her head, and bosome fill. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vainly men themselves amaze Last Line: Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers? Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening; Retirement; Solitude; Loneliness THE LAST INSTRUCTIONS TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After two sittings, now, our lady state Last Line: Give us this court and rule without a guard. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Paintings And Painters THE LOYAL SCOT, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the old heroes when the warlike shades Last Line: Metempsychosed to some scotch presbyter. Subject(s): Cleveland, John (1613-1658); Douglas, Captain Archibald; Scotland - Relations With England THE MATCH, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature had long a treasure made / of all her choicest store Last Line: All love's and nature's store. THE MOWER AGAINST GARDENS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use Last Line: The gods themselves with us do dwell. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature THE MOWER TO THE GLOW-WORMS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye living lamps, by whose dear light Last Line: That I shall never find my home. Variant Title(s): The Lover To The Glow-worms Subject(s): Fireflies; Love; Glowworms THE MOWER'S SONG, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind was once the true survey Last Line: What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me. Subject(s): Grass THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN [OR, FAWN], by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The wanton troopers, riding by Last Line: White as I can, though not as thee. Variant Title(s): The Nymph's Grief For Her Faun;death Of The White Fawn Subject(s): Deer; Nymphs THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T.C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: See with what simplicity / this nymph begins her golden days! Last Line: Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mortality; Childhood THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 59, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, to conclude these pleasant acts Last Line: And isles th'astonisht cattle round. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 60, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others tell the paradox Last Line: And pikes are taken in the pound. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 61, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I, retiring from the flood Last Line: Take sanctuary in the wood. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers THE SECOND ADVICE TO A PAINTER FOR DRAWING HISTORY .. NAVAL BUSYNESSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay painter, if thou dar'st design that fight Last Line: Kings are in war but cards: they're gods in peace. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Sea Battles; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Naval Warfare THE STATUE AT CHARING CROSSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be the mystery why charing crosse Last Line: To behold ev'ry day such a court, such a son. Subject(s): Charing Cross, London; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Osborne, Thomas. 1st Earl Of Danby; Statues THE THIRD ADVICE TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sandwich in spain now, and the duke in love Last Line: To woods and groves what once she painted sings. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Politics & Government; Sea Battles; Naval Warfare THE UNFORTUNATE LOVER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! How pleasant are the days Last Line: In a field stable, a lover gules. Subject(s): Love THE VOWS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the plate was at pawn and the fob at an ebb Last Line: And quack in their language still, vive le roy. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Hate TO BE INSCRIBED ON THE LOUVRE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the inimitable roof of the louvre rises Last Line: Nor is divinity lacking while louis is present TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, MR. RICHARD LOVELACE, UPON HIS POEMS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our times are much degenerate from those Last Line: His booke in them finds judgement, with you love. Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657) TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, DOCTOR WITTY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit farther back and make room for thine own fame Last Line: That handling neither sully nor would guild Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting; Whitty, Robert TO KING CHARLES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O figure five, presaging evil fate Last Line: In harmony's five notes, o father shine. TO KING CHARLES. AN IMITATION, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough by this of plague and lightning pale Last Line: A second stock may spring. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR.WITTY, CONCERNING HIS TRANSLATION, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our books in growing ranks so numerous be Last Line: Which neither flame shall blast nor wrath of heaven. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS DR. LANCELOT JOSEPH DE MANIBAN, SEER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who now to paper would his thoughts commit Last Line: Both bird and letter give their augury. TOM MAY'S DEATH, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one put drunk into the packet-boat Last Line: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TWELVE OXEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have twelfe oxen that be faire and brown Last Line: Saweste not you mine oxen, you litill prety boy? TWO SONGS AT MARRIAGE LORD FAUCONBERG AND LADY MARY CROMWELL, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Th' astrologers own eyes are set Last Line: Whose hopes united banish our despair. Subject(s): Belasyse, Thomas, Earl Of Fauconberg; Cromwell, Mary (1637-1712); Wedding Song; Epithalamium UPON AN EUNUCH; A POET, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deem not that thou art barren, though, forlorn Last Line: And echo nurse thy words, a tuneful race. Subject(s): Enuchs; Poetry & Poets UPON APPLETON HOUSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this sober frame expect / work of no foreign architect Last Line: Does now like one of them appear. Subject(s): Birds; Fairfax, Thomas. 3rd Baron (1612-1671) UPON SIR ROBERT VYNER'S SETTING UP THE KINGS-STATUE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cityes that to the fierce conqueror yield Last Line: Yet we'd better by far have him than his brother. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Statues UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, intercept some fountain in the vein Last Line: And art indeed is long, but life is short. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The UPON THE HILL AND GROVE AT BILLBOROW, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the arched earth does here / rise in perfect hemisphere Last Line: Nor height but with retirement loves. Subject(s): Fairfax, Thomas. 3rd Baron (1612-1671) WHEN FIRST THE EYE THIS FORREST SEES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if the night within were hedg'd Subject(s): Environment; Trees YO, ANDREW MARVELL, by FREDERICK BUELL Poem Source First Line: Speeding like fast scansion marks Last Line: To the blockbuster former colony YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry & Poets; Time; Bedtime YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Last Line: To feel how swift, how secretly, %the shadow of the night comes on Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry And Poets; Time YOUNG LOVE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little infant, love me now Last Line: And we both shall monarchs prove. 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