Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) To His Coy Mistress LINKS Miscellaneous Poems http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=MarPoem&tag =public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed Created and maintained at the University of Virginia, this site contains the text of Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems, which was first published in 1681. BIOGRAPHY Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) Born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge, Marvell received an inheritance upon his father's death that allowed him to spend four years traveling the Continent. Though not a Puritan himself, Marvell supported the Puritans' cause during the civil war and held a number of posts during the Puritan regime, including that of assistant to the blind John Milton, Cromwell's Latin Secretary. In 1659, a year before the Restoration, Marvell was elected to Parliament, where he served until his death. Soon after the Restoration, Marvell expressed strong disagreements with the government in a series of outspoken and anonymously printed satires. It was for these satires, rather than for his many love poems, that he was primarily known in his own day.