(30 quotes found)
“Music, the mosaic of the air”
Andrew Marvell
“The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace”
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
“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.”
“Fair quiet, have I found thee here / And innocence thy sister dear?”
“But at my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie, Deserts of vast eternity”
Andrew Marvel
“He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.”
“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.”
“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.”
