StoryTitle("caps", "To His Coy Mistress") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had we but world enough, and time, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This coyness, Lady, were no crime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We would sit down and think which way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To walk and pass our long love's day. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou by the Indian Ganges' side ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Humber would complain. I would ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love you ten years before the Flood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you should, if you please, refuse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the conversion of the Jews. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My vegetable love should grow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Vaster than empires, and more slow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An hundred years should go to praise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Two hundred to adore each breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But thirty thousand to the rest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An age at least to every part, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the last age should show your heart. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For, Lady, you deserve this state, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor would I love at lower rate. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But at my back I always hear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yonder all before us lie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Deserts of vast eternity. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy beauty shall no more be found, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My echoing song: then worms shall try ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That long preserved virginity, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And your quaint honour turn to dust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And into ashes all my lust: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The grave's a fine and private place, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But none, I think, do there embrace. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Now therefore, while the youthful hue ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sits on thy skin like morning dew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while thy willing soul transpires ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At every pore with instant fires, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now let us sport us while we may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now, like amorous birds of prey, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rather at once our time devour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than languish in his slow-chapt power. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let us roll all our strength and all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our sweetness up into one ball, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tear our pleasures with rough strife ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thorough the iron gates of life: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus, though we cannot make our sun ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stand still, yet we will make him run.", "") ?>
Poet("Andrew Marvell", "1621–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>