"How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?"
Andrew Marvell was an English poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. A metaphysical poet, his poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the politic
"While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown."
Andrew Marvell"So much one man can do, That does both act and know."
Andrew Marvell"Art indeed is long, but life is short."
Andrew Marvell"She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind."
Andrew Marvell"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."
Andrew Marvell"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."
Andrew Marvell