 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...viii. reminds of Dossil again. See our Memorial-Introduction ('Writings'). G. TO HIS COY MISTRESS.1 HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady,...were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way 1 1 1 To walk, and pass OUT lone love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges*side 5 Should'st rubies find... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - Ballads, English - 1873 - 228 pages
...Ho bore a great part in what may be called our Poetical Reformation."] 78 TO HIS COY MISTRESS. JAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady,...crime, We would sit down, and think which way To walk, aud pass our long love's day, Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find : I by the tide... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1878 - 512 pages
...of Andrew Marvell's address " To his Coy Mistress:" " Had we but world enough and time, This toying, lady, were no crime ; We would sit down, and think which way To walk and pass our love's long day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English fiction - 1880 - 656 pages
...forty-three thousand years of wisdom and usefulness to look forward to, the thing would be different. Then 'I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you pleased, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews;' but, unfortunately for us, life has become ridiculously... | |
 | Maria Hall - 1885 - 500 pages
..."Well, listen to these amorous lines, which I swear are Marvel's own : — " ' TO MY COY MISTRESS. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and...Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find ; I by the tide Of Ilumbtr would complain ; I would Love you ten years before the flood ; And you should, if you please,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...and I will therefore give an example of the sweetness and power of his verse : " To hii Coy Mistress. Had we but world enough, and time> This coyness, Lady,...think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. [Herrick's Works, ed. Haditt, i. 73.] Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find : I by... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...notice and praise. For elegance and gay extravagance, his " Cov Mistress " has never been excelled. " Had we but world enough, and time This coyness, lady,...sit down and think, which way To walk and pass our love's long day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would... | |
 | George Dunn - English fiction - 1894 - 608 pages
...To his Coy Mistress'?" " No, sir, I have not." " Then listen, dearest ; it is worth your while : — We "would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.' Then he goes on to point the antithesis : — ' But at my back I always hear Time's wingdd chariot... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps young still. W. CARTWRIGHT. LXXXII TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady,...would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass one long, love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poets, English - 1897 - 600 pages
...the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines " To his coy Mistress," where Marvell that says 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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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. 
