Quote#Friendship
A stately frontispiece of poor
Quote byAndrew Marvell · 1621–1678
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Miscellaneous Poems (1681), Upon Appleton House, stanza 9.
English (original)
A stately frontispiece of poor Adorns without the open door: Nor less the rooms within commends Daily new furniture of friends. The House was built upon the place Only as for a mark of grace; And for an inn to entertain Its lord a while, but not remain.
— Andrew Marvell
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An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.
Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
For though the whole world cannot show such another, Yet we’d better by far have him than his brother.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
The world in all doth but two nations bear — The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound