The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
        (To his Coy Mistress, 31-32)

1. Bermudas
2. The Character of Holland (excerpt)
3. The Definition of Love
4. A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body
5. The Fair Singer
6. The Garden
7. An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
8. The Mower (The Mower Against Gardens)
9. The Mower to the Glow-Worms
10. The Mower's Song
11. The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
12. To his Coy Mistress
13. Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax

Notes on Life and Works

All the poems of Marvell were published (three years after his death) in Miscellaneous Poems, 1681. Most of them cannot be accurately dated.

Biographical information

Given name: Andrew
Family name: Marvell
Birth date: 31 March 1621
Death date: 18 August 1678
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Andrew Marvell
          wife: Mary Marvell
Languages
          English
          French
          Italian
          Latin
          Greek
          Spanish
          Dutch
Education
          Grammar school of Hull
          Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.): 14 December 1633 to 1638
Politics: Republican
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Occupations
          Member of Parliament
          Secretaryship for foreign tongues
          Tutor: 1650
Residences
          Winestead, Holderness, Yorkshire: 31 March 1621
          Nun Appleton, Yorkshire: 1650
          Eton: 1653
Buried at: St. Giles-in-the-Fields
First RPO edition: 1997