🔵 To His Coy Mistress Poem by Andrew Marvell - Summary Analysis - To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress Poem by Andrew Marvell - Summary Analysis - To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
1621 - 1678
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 love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst 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 lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
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.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
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 amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
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[@Khatoon170]

As always iam gathering main theme of poem and poet biography briefly here it’s to his coy mistress poem treats conventional theme of conflict between love and time in witty and ironic manner . The poet opens by telling his mistress that , given all time in world , he would spend hundred of years praising each part of her body, while she could spend hundreds or years refusing his advances . Andrew Marvell ( 1621- 1678) he was English metaphysical poet , satirist,politician who sat in house of commonwealth at various times between 1659and 1678. During commonwealth period he was colleague and friend of John Milton. His poem range from love - song to his coy mistress, to evocations of aristocratic country house and garden in upon Appleton house and the garden , politicical address horaian ode upon Cromwell return from Ireland and later personal and political gatiries flecknoe and character of holland.

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