1) The speaker tries to convince his coy mistress to engage in a passionate relationship before time runs out for them both.
2) He acknowledges they do not have enough time to engage in a slow, long love over many years as he desires, so urges her to act now while they are still young.
3) The speaker argues that after death, their beauty and love will be lost, so they must seize the moment rather than waiting or languishing as time passes them by.
1) The speaker tries to convince his coy mistress to engage in a passionate relationship before time runs out for them both.
2) He acknowledges they do not have enough time to engage in a slow, long love over many years as he desires, so urges her to act now while they are still young.
3) The speaker argues that after death, their beauty and love will be lost, so they must seize the moment rather than waiting or languishing as time passes them by.
1) The speaker tries to convince his coy mistress to engage in a passionate relationship before time runs out for them both.
2) He acknowledges they do not have enough time to engage in a slow, long love over many years as he desires, so urges her to act now while they are still young.
3) The speaker argues that after death, their beauty and love will be lost, so they must seize the moment rather than waiting or languishing as time passes them by.
1) The speaker tries to convince his coy mistress to engage in a passionate relationship before time runs out for them both.
2) He acknowledges they do not have enough time to engage in a slow, long love over many years as he desires, so urges her to act now while they are still young.
3) The speaker argues that after death, their beauty and love will be lost, so they must seize the moment rather than waiting or languishing as time passes them by.
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Hannah Nicole Alicaya STEM-1101
To His Coy Mistress
By: Andrew Marvel
Had we but world enough, and time, Thy beauty shall no more be found; This coyness Lady were no crime. Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound We would sit down and think which way My echoing song; then worms shall try To walk, and pass our long love’s day. That long preserved virginity, Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side And your quaint honor turn to dust, Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide And into ashes all my lust: Of Humber would complain. The grave’s a fine and private place, I would Love you ten years before the flood, But none, I think, do there embrace. And you should, if you please, refuse Now therefore while the youthful hue Till the conversion of the Jews. Sits on thy skin like morning dew, My vegetable love should grow And while thy willing soul transpires Vaster than empires and more slow; At every pore with instant fires, An hundred years should go to praise Now let us sport us while we may, Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Two hundred to adore each breast, Rather at once our time devour But thirty thousand to the rest; Than languish in his slow-chapped power. An age at least to every part, Let us roll all our strength and all And the last age should show your heart. Our sweetness up into one ball, For, lady, you deserve this state, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Nor would I love at lower rate. Thorough the iron gates of life: But at my back I always hear Thus, though we cannot make our sun Times winged chariot hurrying near; Stand still, yet we will make him run. And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
