da Alla sua timida amante
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.
Andrew Marvell Frasi e Citazioni
Andrew Marvell: Frasi in inglese
The Garden (1650-1652)
Contesto: 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 shade.
“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.”
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
Origine: To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Contesto: 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.
Stanza 1.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
“Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
Origine: To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Contesto: Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
“Love's whole world on us doth wheel.”
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
“How fit is he to sway
That can so well obey ("Horatian Ode," 83-84),”
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650), lines 83-84; on political authority.
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
“…the inglorious arts of peace…”
Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650)
“No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place.”
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax.
“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”
Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line
Variante: "Art is long, and time is fleeting." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (1839).
“But bowed his comely head
Down as upon a bed.”
Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650)
“So much one man can do,
That does both act and know.”
Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650)
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England [1677] (reprinted in State Tracts: Volume I (1692), pp. 69 ff.).
Stanza 7.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
The Garden (1650-1652)
“To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.”
The Character of Holland (c. 1653).
“An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.”
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers.
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Damon The Mower.
Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650)
