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Miscellaneous poems

By Andrew Marvell

Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)

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A DIALOGUE, BETWEEN The Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.

A Dialogue between the Soul and Body.

The Nymph complaining for the death of her Faun.

Young Love.

To his Coy Mistress.

The unfortunate Lover.

The Definition of Love.

The Picture of little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers.

Tom May's Death.

The Match.

The Mower against Gardens.

Damon the Mower.

The Mower to the Glo-Worms.

The Mower's Song.

Ametas and Thestylis making Hay-Ropes.

II.

III.

IV.

Musicks Empire.

The Garden.

Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome.

To his worthy Friend Doctor Witty upon his Translation of the Popular Errors.

On Mr. Milton's Paradise lost.

Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2.

An Epitaph upon ---

Upon the Hill and Grove at Bill-borow.

Upon Appleton House,

On the Victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards,

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda.

The Character of Holland.

An Horation Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland.

THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY Of the Government under O. C.

Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg and the Ludy Mary Cromwell.

First.

Second Song.

A Poem upon the Death of O. C.

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Young Love.

I

Come little Infant, Love me now,
While thine unsuspected years
Clear thine aged Fathers brow
From cold Jealousie and Fears.

II

Pretty surely 'twere to see
By young Love old Time beguil'd:

While our Sportings are as free
As the Nurses with the Child.

III

Common Beauties stay fifteen;
Such as yours should swifter move;
Whose fair Blossoms are too green
Yet for Lust, but not for Love.

IV

Love as much the snowy Lamb
Or the wanton Kid does prize,
As the lusty Bull or Ram,
For his morning Sacrifice.

V

Now then love me: time may take
Thee before thy time away:
Of this Need wee'l Virtue make,
And learn Love before we may.

VI

So we win of doubtful Fate;
And, if good she to us meant,
We that Good shall antedate,
Or, if ill, that Ill prevent.

VII

Thus as Kingdomes, frustrating
Other Titles to their Crown,
In the craddle crown their King,
So all Forraign Claims to drown,

VIII

So, to make all Rivals vain,
Now I crown thee with my Love:

Crown me with thy Love again,
And we both shall Monarchs prove.