Marvell : Poems

by MARVELL, ANDREW

• ISBN13: 9781400042524
• ISBN10: 1400042526
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including "The Garden," "The Definition of Love," "Bermudas," "To His Coy Mistress," and the "Horatian Ode" to Cromwell. Marvell's work is marked by extraordinary variety, ranging from incomparable lyric explorations of the inner life to satiric poems on the famous men and important issues of his timeone of the most politically volatile epochs in England's history. From the lover's famous admonition, "Had we but World enough, and Time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime," to the image of the solitary poet "Annihilating all that's made / To a green Thought in a green Shade," Marvell's poetry has earned a permanent place in the canon and in the hearts of poetry lovers.

Author Biography

Andrew Marvell (1621-78) served as an assistant to John Milton, held office under Oliver Cromwell, and was a member of Parliament after the Restoration.

Table of Contents

The definition of love	p. 13
The match	p. 15
To his coy mistress	p. 17
The fair singer	p. 19
Eyes and tears	p. 20
The unfortunate lover	p. 23
The gallery	p. 26
Ametas and Thestylis making hay-ropes	p. 29
Daphnis and Chloe	p. 30
Clorinda and Damon	p. 36
Young love	p. 38
The garden	p. 43
The mower against gardens	p. 46
Damon the mower	p. 48
The mower's song	p. 52
The mower to the glo-worms	p. 54
The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers	p. 55
Bermudas	p. 57
The garden	p. 59
On a drop of dew	p. 65
Dew	p. 67
The coronet	p. 70
A dialogue between the soul and body	p. 71
A dialogue, between the resolved soul, and created pleasure	p. 73
Mourning	p. 81
The nymph complaining for the death of her faun	p. 83
Upon the death of the Lord Hastings	p. 88
Tom May's death	p. 91
The second chorus from Seneca's tragedy, Thyestes	p. 95
Upon the hill and grove at Bill-borow	p. 99
Upon Appleton house	p. 103
Epigram on the two mountains of Amos-Cliff and Bilborough	p. 136
On Mr. Milton's paradise lost	p. 139
To his noble fried Mr. Richard Lovelace, upon his poems	p. 141
To his worthy friend doctor Witty upon his translation of the popular errors	p. 143
Upon the eunuch; a poet	p. 145
Musicks empire	p. 146
Fleckno, an English priest at Rome	p. 148
An Horation ode upon Cromwel's return from Ireland	p. 157
The character of Holland	p. 162
The first anniversary of the government under his Highness the Lord Protector	p. 168
A poem upon the death of his late Highnesse the Lord Protector	p. 184
The second advice to a painter for drawing the history of our navall busynesse : in imitation of Mr. Waller	p. 197
The last instructions to a painter	p. 211
Clarindon's house-warming	p. 248
The vows	p. 254
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