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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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Ixiv ANDREW MARVELL.

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Andrew Marvell·1621–1678
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Young Love," — " Come, little infant, love menow " — may well be contrasted with Prior's charm-ing verses, " To a Child of Quality, five yearsold," written half a century later. The exquisite" Bermudas " is perhaps the most widely knownof Marvell's poems. One of the noblest is the" Dialogue between the Resolved Soul andCreated Pleasure " ; and we must not forget "AnEpitaph," with its touching end : — Modest as mom, as midday bright,Gentle as evening, cool as night :■Tis true ; bul all loo weakly said :'Twas more significant, she's dead. Throughout these earlier poems there is awonderful combination of delicate sentiment,wealth of fancy, graceful form, simplicity com-bined with depth of thought, imagination andoriginality. Marvell's mind was like the gardenhe described, where he found feir Quiet andInnocence, and whereevery form of finit presseditself upon him as he walked. But the mind,retiring into its own happiness, created otherworlds and seas, transcending those of thenatural world.
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