greykit.poetry — Andrew Marvell
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1681
[andrew-marvell]
The Definition of Love
A love begotten by Despair upon Impossibility, kept apart by jealous Fate like the two poles of the world — parallel lines, infinite, that can never meet: the conjunction of the mind, and opposition of the stars.
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1681
[andrew-marvell]
The Garden
Green solitude preferred to every human prize: the gods chase mortal beauty only to end up holding a tree, fruit falls into the poet's hands unasked, and the mind withdraws to annihilate all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.
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1681
[andrew-marvell]
To his Coy Mistress
Three moves: if there were world enough and time he would spend an age on each part of her; there is not, and time's winged chariot is audible behind them; therefore tear their pleasures through the iron gates of life.
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