Poetry Codex

Metaphysical & Cavalier

Andrew Marvell

1621–1678

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) was an English metaphysical poet and politician.

Celebrated for lyrics such as ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and ‘The Garden,’ most of his poems appeared posthumously in the Miscellaneous Poems of 1681.

Poems (72)

  1. A DIALOGUE, BETWEEN The Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.
  2. On a Drop of Dew.
  3. Ros.
  4. The Coronet.
  5. Eyes and Tears.
  6. Bermudas.
  7. Clorinda and Damon.
  8. A Dialogue between the Soul and Body.
  9. The Nymph complaining for the death of her Faun.
  10. Young Love.
  11. To his Coy Mistress.
  12. The unfortunate Lover.
  13. The Gallery.
  14. The Fair Singer.
  15. Mourning.
  16. Daphnis and Chloe.
  17. The Definition of Love.
  18. The Picture of little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers.
  19. Tom May's Death.
  20. The Match.
  21. The Mower against Gardens.
  22. Damon the Mower.
  23. The Mower to the Glo-Worms.
  24. The Mower's Song.
  25. Ametas and Thestylis making Hay-Ropes.
  26. Musicks Empire.
  27. The Garden.
  28. Hortus.
  29. To a Gentleman that only upon the sight of the Author's writing, had given a Character of his Person and Judgment of his Fortune.
  30. Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome.
  31. Dignissimo suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi Errorum D. Primrosii.
  32. To his worthy Friend Doctor Witty upon his Translation of the Popular Errors.
  33. On Mr. Milton's Paradise lost.
  34. Inscribenda Luparae.
  35. Upon an Eunuch; a Poet.
  36. In the French translation of Lucan, by Monsieur De Brebeuf are these Verses.
  37. Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2.
  38. Johannis Trottii Epitaphium.
  39. Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium.
  40. An Epitaph upon—
  41. Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum. Farfacio.
  42. Upon the Hill and Grove at Bill-borow. To the Lord Fairfax.
  43. Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax.
  44. On the Victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards, in the Bay of Sanctacruze, in the Island of Teneriff. 1657.
  45. A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda.
  46. The Character of Holland.
  47. An Horation Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland.
  48. THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY Of the Government under O. C.
  49. In Legationem Domini Oliveri St. John ad Provincias Foederatas.
  50. A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, then with my Lord Whitlock, Ambassador from the Protector to the Queen of Sweden.
  51. Second Song.
  52. A Poem upon the Death of O. C.
  53. The Last Instructions to a Painter about the Dutch Wars, 1667.
  54. To the King (“So his bold tube”).
  55. Clarendon's House-warming.
  56. Upon his House.
  57. Epigram upon his Grandchildren.
  58. Farther Instructions to a Painter.
  59. On Blood's stealing the Crown.
  60. A Poem on the Statue in Stocks-Market.
  61. An Historical Poem.
  62. Advice to a Painter.
  63. To the King (“Great Charles, who full of mercy”).
  64. Britannia and Raleigh.
  65. Nostradamus' Prophecy.
  66. The Statue at Charing Cross.
  67. A Dialogue between Two Horses.
  68. Upon the Cutting of Sir John Coventry's Nose.
  69. The Chequer Inn.
  70. The Doctor turned Justice.
  71. Royal Resolutions.
  72. On the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen presenting the King and Duke of York each with a Copy of his Freedom, Anno Dom. 1674. A Ballad.

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