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Andrew Marvell [1621-1678] English
Rank: 109
Poet (with poems), Poet

Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Vernacular


Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. 


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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
101
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
102
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
103
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
104

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