9 Andrew Marvell Quotes on Love

Andrew Marvell quotes on love

3. She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind.

4. How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?

14. Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

15. 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.

19. Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

25. My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

26. Love's whole world on us doth wheel.

27. As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

28. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.