Andrew Marvell

Ingeniosa Viris contingunt Nomina magnis,
Ut dubites Casu vel Ratione data.
Nam Sors, caeca licet, tamen est praesaga futuri;
Et sub fatidico Nomine vera premit.

Charissimo
Edmundo
Posuimus Pater &
Frustra superstites.

To make a final conquest of all me,
Love did compose so sweet an Enemy,
In whom both Beauties to my death agree,
Joyning themselves in fatal Harmony;

Сударыня, будь вечны наши жизни,
Кто бы стыдливость предал укоризне?
Не торопясь, вперед на много лет
Продумали бы мы любви сюжет.…

The forward youth that would appear
Must now forsake his Muses dear,
Nor in the shadows sing
His numbers languishing.…

You, that decipher out the
Of humane Off-springs from the Skies,
What mean these Infants which of
Spring from the Starrs of Chlora's Eyes?

My Love is of a birth as
As 'tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by
Upon Impossibility.

SoulO Who shall, from this Dungeon, raiseA Soul inslav'd so many wayes?
With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd
In Feet ; and manacled in Hands.
Here blinded with an Eye ; and

Чудно Любви моей начало
И сети, что она сплела:
Ее Отчаянье зачало
И Невозможность родила.Отчаянье в своих щедротах…

Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land,
As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand;
And so much Earth as was
By English Pilots when they heav'd the Lead;

Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late,
And studying all the summer night,
Her matchless songs does meditate;

Farfacio.
Cernis ut ingenti distinguant limite
Montis Amos clivi Bilboreique juga!
Ille stat indomitus turritis undisque saxis:

The wanton Troopers riding
Have shot my Faun and it will dye.
Ungentle men!
They cannot

Heark how the Mower Damon Sung,
With love of Juliana stung!
While ev'ry thing did seem to
The Scene more fit for his complaint.

SEE how the flowers, as at parade,
Under their colours stand display'd:
Each regiment in order grows,
That of the tulip, pink, and rose.…

When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold,
In slender Book his vast Design unfold,
Messiah Crown'd,
Gods Reconcil'd Decree,

Now does Spains Fleet her spatious wings unfold,
Leaves the new World and hastens for the old:
But though the wind was fair, the slowly
Frayted with acted Guilt, and Guilt to come:

Courage my Soul, now learn to wield
The weight of thine immortal Shield.
Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright.
Ballance thy Sword against the Fight.…

Dorinda
When Death, shall snatch us from these Kids,
And shut up our divided Lids,
Tell me Thyrsis, prethee do,…

Daphnis must from Chloe part:
Now is come the dismal
That must all his Hopes devour,
All his Labour, all his Art.

Haec est quae toties Inimicos Umbra fugavit,
At sub qua Cives Otia lenta terunt.
In eandem Reginae Sueciae
Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum.

Nature had long a Treasure
Of all her choisest store;
Fearing, when She should be decay'd,
To beg in vain for more.

See how the Orient Dew,
Shed from the Bosom of the
Into the blowing Roses,
Yet careless of its Mansion new;

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years;
And his short tumults of themselves compose,