Andrew Marvell citations

Andrew Marvell est un poète métaphysique et un homme politique anglais né le 31 mars 1621 à Winestead-in-Holderness près de Kingston-upon-Hull et mort le 16 août 1678 à Londres.

Associé fréquemment à John Donne ou George Herbert, il fut le premier assistant de John Milton, et rédigea un éloquent poème en préface à la seconde édition du Paradis perdu. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. mars 1621 – 16. août 1678
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Andrew Marvell: Citations en anglais

“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.”

The Garden (1650-1652)
Contexte: 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

Source: To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Contexte: 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.

“Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress

Source: To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Contexte: 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.

“…the inglorious arts of peace…”

Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650)

“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)

“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.

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