How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.
Music, the mosaic of the air. - Andrew Marvell
Music, the mosaic of the air.
- Andrew Marvell
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt. - Andrew Marvell
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short… - Andrew Marvell
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short…
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. - Andrew Marvell
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.
Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. - Andrew Marvell
Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. - Andrew Marvell
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. - Andrew Marvell
The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade. - Andrew Marvell
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
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