 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 544 pages
...brighter than the sun you see, Fall down, fall down and worship it, for that is she. Anon. To his coy Mistress HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side SI mi ili 1st rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before... | |
 | Charles M. Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars - Business & Economics - 2008 - 400 pages
...about the time taken in courtship and preliminaries. Consider Andrew Marvell's delightful To His Coy Mistress: Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...following poem is another of the meter's great moments: To His COY MISTRESS (Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678) 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 Ganges side Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humber' would complain.... | |
 | Michael Graubart Levin - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 180 pages
...wrong." What a rare find is a capable wife! Her worth is far beyond that of rubies. PROVERBS 31:10 Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness Lady were no crime . . . You should if you please refuse to the conversion of the Jews. ANDREW MARVELL, ENGLISH POET,... | |
 | Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, James S. Trefil - Fiction - 2002 - 944 pages
...Din" (1890) A poem by Rudyard KIPLING about the native water carrier for a British regiment in INDIA. Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime The first lines of "To His Coy Mistress," a poem by the seventeenth-century English poet Andrew Marvell.... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop - 200 pages
...about. A reading of 'To his Coy Mistress' will dispel any feeling that Marvell is only ever luke-warm: 'Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness lady were no crime' (1-2). Given an almost unlimited span of time and space, love could be taken gently and easily. It's... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - Electronic books - 2002 - 346 pages
...temains little shott of bteathtaking: Had we but Wotld enough, and Time, This coyness Lady wete no ctime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass out long Loves Day. Thou by the /tuiian Ganges side Should'st Rubies find: l by the Tide Of Humbet... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...Poems of the English Language, ed. Oscar Williams (New York: Washington Square Press, Inc., 1967) H1. Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady,...long love's 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... | |
 | Nick Earls - Fiction - 2003 - 372 pages
..."Okay." I assume the position. "One of my finer eisteddfod pieces. It's by Andrew Marvel. 'To His Coy Mistress': "Had we but world enough, and time, This...think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. "That's how it starts, anyway. And then there's some line about the Ganges, or something. The poem's... | |
 | Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 184 pages
...the sun; ta'en thy wages: taken your wages 3. From Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" ( 1 68 1 ) Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady,...think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. . . . But at my back I always hear 5 Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us... | |
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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. 
