 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...how, nor why. Alexander Brome [1620-1666] TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, i This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down...Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humbcr would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please,... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Poetry - 1921 - 316 pages
...change, it render can, My outside Woman, and your Inside Man. Abraham Cowley. To his Coy ^Mistress. 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.... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1921 - 316 pages
...Abraham Cowley. ...^y To his Coy ^Mistress. *?~ , - ' jN1-"' T TAd we but World enough, and Time, 1 1 This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - English poetry - 1923 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | John Drinkwater - English poetry - 1924 - 400 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. 1M9 380 ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) TO HIS COY MISTRESS laws obey. If such there 5'; 5 Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the... | |
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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. 
