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We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
And the last age should show your heart.
      But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
      Now therefore, while the youthful hue
And while thy willing soul transpires
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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To His Coy Mistress

By Andrew Marvell



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Andrew Marvell is surely the single most compelling embodiment of the change that came over English society and letters in the course of the 17th century. In an era that makes a better claim than most upon the familiar term transitional, Marvell wrote a varied...

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^ Marvell, Andrew (1956). MacDonald, Hugh (ed.). Poems of Andrew Marvell (Second ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 21–22. OCLC 1058125608 .

^ The Oxford Authors Authors Andrew Marvell . Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. ISBN 9780192541833 .

^ Jump up to: a b Lee, Michelle. "To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell." Poetry Criticism . Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008. 171-282. Gale.cengage.com: Literature Criticism Online . Web. 20 Oct 2011.

^ Person, James E. "Andrew Marvell(1621-1678)." Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 . Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. 391-451. Gale.cengage.com: Literature Criticism Online . Web. 20 Oct 2011.

^ Coy Mistress , Poetry Foundation

^ His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell , Australian Poetry Library

^ Wagner, Andreas (2014). Arrival of the Fittest .

^ "The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: 'The Word for World is Forest' and 'Vaster Than Empires and More Slow'" (in: Science Fiction Studies , November 1975) - online: "Ursula Le Guin and Pastoral Mode" ; Rich Erlich: Study Guide for Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest "Note allusion of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress," the source of the title to Le Guin's "Vaster than Empires.""

^ "An Ode to Multiple Universes - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki" . wiki.lspace.org . Retrieved 2019-06-05 .

^ Lehman, David. " ' Carpe Diem' in 46 Immortal Lines" . wsj.com . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 17 May 2015 .

^ " You, Andrew Marvell ", by Archibald MacLeish, at the Poetry Foundation

^ On Becoming a Poet , from The Weather of Words, by Mark Strand



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Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side
Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Till the Conversion of the Jews .
My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster than Empires, and more slow.
A hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Two hundred to adore each breast:
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An Age at least to every part,
And the last Age should show your Heart.
For Lady you deserve this State;
Nor would I love at lower rate.
    But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Thy Beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv'd 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.
    Now therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing Soul transpires
At every pore with instant Fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our Time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run. [1]

" To His Coy Mistress " is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. [2]

This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best recognised carpe diem poem in English. Although the date of its composition is not known, it may have been written in the early 1650s. At that time, Marvell was serving as a tutor to the daughter of the retired commander of the New Model Army , Sir Thomas Fairfax . [3]

The speaker of the poem starts by addressing a woman who has been slow to respond to his romantic advances. In the first stanza he describes how he would pay court to her if he were to be unencumbered by the constraints of a normal lifespan. He could spend centuries admiring each part of her body and her resistance to his advances (i.e., coyness) would not discourage him. In the second stanza, he laments how short human life is. Once life is over, the speaker contends, the opportunity to enjoy one another is gone, as no one embraces in death. In the last stanza, the speaker urges the woman to requite his efforts, and argues that in loving one another with passion they will both make the most of the brief time they have to live.

The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymes in couplets. The first verse paragraph ("Had we...") is ten couplets long, the second ("But...") six, and the third ("Now therefore...") seven.
The logical form of the poem runs: if... but... therefore....

Until recently, "To His Coy Mistress" had been received by many as a poem that follows the traditional conventions of carpe diem love poetry. Some modern critics, however, argue Marvell's use of complex and ambiguous metaphors challenges the perceived notions of the poem. It as well raises suspicion of irony and deludes the reader with its inappropriate and jarring imagery . [4]

Some critics believe the poem is an ironic statement on sexual seduction. They reject the idea that Marvell's poem carries a serious and solemn mood. Rather, the poem's opening lines—"Had we but world enough, and time/ This coyness, Lady, were no crime"—seems to suggest quite a whimsical tone of regret. In the second part of the poem, there is a sudden transition into imagery that involves graves, marble vaults and worms. The narrator's use of such metaphors to depict a realistic and harsh death that awaits the lovers seems to be a way of shocking the lady into submission. As well, critics note the sense of urgency of the narrator in the poem's third section, especially the alarming comparison of the lovers to "amorous birds of prey". [3]

At least two poets have taken up the challenge of responding to Marvell's poem in the character of the lady so addressed. Annie Finch 's "Coy Mistress" [5] suggests that poetry is a more fitting use of their time than lovemaking, while A.D. Hope 's "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell" turns down the offered seduction outright. [6]

Many authors have borrowed the phrase "World enough and time" from the poem's opening line to use in their book titles. The most famous is Robert Penn W
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