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" To his Coy Mistress 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 Huraber would complain. "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ... - Page 255
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 pages
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More Essays on Books

Arthur Clutton-Brock - American literature - 1921 - 204 pages
...landscape of cloudy golden trees and infinite avenues. There are these avenues in Marvell's poem:— Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime— he begins like any trifling versifier, but for the phrase " world enough and time." That phrase controls...
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The Briary-bush: A Novel

Floyd Dell - American fiction - 1921 - 444 pages
...seems quite fond; but she likes you, after a fashion — yes, she even encourages you to persevere. "Had we but world enough, and time This coyness, lady, were no crime I" But day after day, in this preposterous fashion, is slipping past; and she says she is going to...
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Miscellaneous Poems

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1923 - 168 pages
...with my Love : Crown me with thy Love again, And we both shall Monarchs prove. To hii Coy Miffress. HAD we but World enough, and time, This coyness Lady...down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long Loves Day. Thou by the Indian Cjanges side Should'st Rubies find : I by the Tide Of Humber would complain....
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Studies in Idealism

Hugh I'Anson Fausset - English poetry - 1923 - 306 pages
...nature. We may best illustrate this by three examples. First in Marvell's well-known poem, The Coy Mistress: Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. ... I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion...
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An Anthology of English Verse

John Drinkwater - English poetry - 1924 - 400 pages
...strong a Wing, 'Twill learn of things Divine, and first of Thee to sing. ABRAHAM COWLEY. TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but World enough, and Time, This coyness...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....
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Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

Thomas Stearns Eliot - English poetry - 1924 - 52 pages
...the three paragraphs Marvell plays with a fancy which begins by pleasing and leads to astonishment. Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime, ... I would •:•, Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till...
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Dans les sentiers de la renaissance anglaise

Emile Legouis - English poetry - 1925 - 146 pages
...Loin l'un de l'autre, on rêveroit maints jours Au choix d'un lieu pour de lentes amours. TO HIS COY MISTRESS Had we but World enough , and Time, This...down and think which way To walk and pass our long Loves day. Vous, sur la rive indienne du Gange, Iriez cueillant quelque rubis étrange, Moi soupirant...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...30 Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. 1M9 380 ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the...
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The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell: Poems

Andrew Marvell - Authors, English - 1927 - 372 pages
...crown thee with my Love : 30 Crown me with thy Love again, And we both shall Monarchs prove. To his Coy Mistress. Had we but World enough, and Time, , This...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....
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The Talk of the Town, by Lynn Montross and Lois Seyster Montross

Lynn Montross, Lois Montross - New York (N.Y.) - 1917 - 320 pages
...century, but to-night you must think of me as his devout echo." Ames recited in a low, glib singsong: "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our love's long day . . . And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable...
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