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Subject: MARVELL, ANDREW (1621-1678)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey
Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest
Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress
Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism


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


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


IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day you said you loved me, we found ourselves
Last Line: (looking the other way.)
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Beginnings; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets


PICTURE OF J.T. IN A PROSPECT OF STONE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What should one %wish a child
Last Line: Her doom (unknown), %her unmown green
Subject(s): Children; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets


POEM FOR ANDREW MARVELL, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)


REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey
Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest
Variant Title(s): Coy Mistres
Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


ROUND, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets


ROUND, by WELDON KEES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house
Last Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets


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 BLUECOAT BOY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met an angel in the strand
Last Line: "charles lamb."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; English


THE PICTURE OF J.T. IN A PROSPECT OF STONE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What should one / wish a child
Subject(s): Children; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Childhood


TO HIS COY MATTRESS (AFTER MARVELL), by DAVID SHEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had we the time to sleep, and rest
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets


TO HIS IMPORTUNATE MISTRESS, by PETER DE VRIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had we but world enough, and time
Last Line: His conscience may remain unriven
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets


TO HIS IMPORTUNATE MISTRESS, by PAUL GRIFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were there no limits to my lust
Last Line: Though now for women's rights you weep, %grant me one male right - to sleep
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could outbalance poised
Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters?
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); English History


TUNBRIDGE WELLS, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At five this morn, when phoebus raised his head
Last Line: Did seem to me by much the wiser creature.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Tunbridge Wells, England


YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem 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