greykit.poetry — Andrew Marvell/miscellaneous-poems

• 1681 [andrew-marvell] The Definition of Love
  Miscellaneous Poems

  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.

  #lyric#love#fate#1680s
• 1681 [andrew-marvell] The Garden
  Miscellaneous Poems

  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.

  #lyric#nature#solitude#1680s
• 1681 [andrew-marvell] To his Coy Mistress
  Miscellaneous Poems

  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.

  #lyric#carpe-diem#time#1680s