Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
"Andrew Marvell" was an England/English Metaphysical poets/metaphysical poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England/House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with John Donne and George Herbert. He was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems include "To His Coy Mistress", "The Garden (poem)/The Garden", "An Horatian Ode upon Oliver Cromwell/Cromwell's Return from Ireland", "The Mower's Song" and the country house poem "Upon Appleton House".
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Andrew Marvell on Wikipedia.Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.
Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring sense / And Heaven views it with delight.
He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.
I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.
The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
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