Andrew Marvell — English Writer born on March 31, 1621, died on August 16, 1678

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", and the later personal and political satires "Flecknoe" and "The Character of Holland"... (wikipedia)

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.