#upon appleton house

[hyperions-fate]

Thus I, easy Philosopher,

Among the birds and trees confer.

And little now to make me wants

Or of the fowls, or of the plants:

Give me but wings as they, and I

Straight floating on the air shall fly:

Or turn me but, and you shall see

I was but an inverted Tree.

Andrew Marvell, 'Upon Appleton House' (1651)

[worlddarknessww]

Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity; And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House

[inlaidgarbage]

Go now fond Sex that on your Face Do all your useless Study place, Nor once at Vice your Brows dare knit Lest the smooth Forehead wrinkled sit Yet your own Face shall at you grin, Thorough the Black-bag of your Skin; When knowledge only could have fill'd And Virtue all those Furows till'd.

-Marvell, "Upon Appleton House"

[execrablelexicon]

osier

(n.) 1. a small European willow that grows mostly in wet habitats and is a major source of the long flexible shoots (withies) used in basketwork (Salix viminalis); a shoot of a willow; any willow tree; 2. any of several North American dogwoods.

origin, late Middle English: from Old French; compare with Medieval Latin auseria "willow bed."

"Oh what a pleasure 'tis to hedge My temples here with heavy sedge, Abandoning my lazy side, Stretched as a bank unto the tide, Or to suspend my sliding foot On th' osier's underminèd root, And in its branches tough to hand, While at my lines the fishes twang!" —Andrew Marvel, "Upon Appleton House" (1651)

[patientustlepa]

No creature loves an empty space;

Their bodies measure out their place.