“ My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;It was begotten by DespairUpon Impossibility. Andrew Marvell
“ Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. Andrew Marvell
“ As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, I… Andrew Marvell
“ Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous… Andrew Marvell
“ 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… Andrew Marvell
“ 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. Andrew Marvell
“ But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My ech… Andrew Marvell
