Author: Andrew Marvell
Cited by
- Peter Beagle (1)
- IN: A Fine and Private Place (1960) Fiction, Fantasy, American
EPIGRAPH: The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
FROM: To His Coy Mistress, (1681), Poem, UK
- Anna Smaill (1)
- IN: The Chimes (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Then music, the mosaic of the air,
Did of all these a solemn noise prepare;
With which she gained the empire of the ear,
Including all between the earth and sphere.
FROM: Musick's Empire, (1681), Poem, UK
- Ellery Queen (1)
- IN: A Fine and Private Place (1971) Fiction, Mystery, American
EPIGRAPH: The graves a fine and private place.
FROM: To His Coy Mistress, (1681), Poem, UK
- Walter Tevis (2)
- IN: The Hustler (1959) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: No white nor red was ever seen,
So am'rous as this lovely green...
FROM: "The Garden", (1681), Poem, UK
- IN: The Color of Money (1984) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought, in a green shade.
FROM: "The Garden", (1681), Poem, UK
- Dan Simmons (1)
- IN: Ilium (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Mean while the Mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:
The Mind, that Ocean where each kind
Does straight its resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other Worlds, and other Seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green Thought in a green Shade.
FROM: The Garden, (1681), Poem, UK
- David Mark (1)
- IN: Taking Pity (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Self-preservation, nature's first great law,
All the creatures, except man, doth awe.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Angela Carter (1)
- IN: Heroes and Villains (1969) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: See how he nak'd and fierce doth stand,
Cuffing the Thunder with one hand;
While with the other he does lock,
And grapple, with the stubborn Rock;
From which he with each Wave rebounds,
Torn into Flames, and ragg'd with Wounds.
And all he saes, a Lover drest
In his own Blood does relish best.
FROM: The Unfortunate Lover', (1649), Poem, UK
- A.S. Byatt (1)
- IN: A Whistling Woman (1993) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Here at the Fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some Fruit-tree's mossy root,
Casting the Bodies vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
There like a Bird it sits and sings,
Then whets, and combs its silver Wings;
And, till prepared for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various Light.
FROM: The Garden, (1681), Poem, UK