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Posted by flo on July 30, 19103 at 05:47:30:
In Reply to: Re: Andrew Marvell- Dialogue between Soul and Body posted by nikki on August 21, 19102 at 08:24:09:
: : : I need to ysis this poem line-by-line (MEANING, symbols, why written) If any one knows this poem please help me out
: : To his Coy Mistress
: : by Andrew Marvell
: : 1.
: : Had we but world enough, and time,
: : This coyness, lady, were no crime.
: : We would sit down and think which way
: : To walk, and p our long love's day;
: : Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
: : Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
: : Of Humber would complain. I would
: : Love you ten years before the Flood;
: : And you should, if you please, refuse
: : Till the conversion of the Jews.
: : My vegetable love should grow
: : Vaster than empires, and more slow.
: : An hundred years should go to praise
: : Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
: : Two hundred to adore each ,
: : But thirty thousand to the rest;
: : An age at least to every part,
: : And the last age should show your heart.
: : For, lady, you deserve this state,
: : Nor would I love at lower rate.
: : But at my back I always hear
: : Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
: : And yonder all before us lie
: : Deserts of vast eternity.
: : Thy beauty shall no more be found,
: : Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
: : My echoing song; then worms shall try
: : That long preserv'd ity,
: : And your quaint honour turn to dust,
: : And into ashes all my lust.
: : The grave's a fine and private place,
: : But none I think do there embrace.
: : Now therefore, while the youthful hue
: : Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
: : And while thy willing soul transpires
: : At every pore with instant fires,
: : Now let us sport us while we may;
: : And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
: : Rather at once our time devour,
: : Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
: : Let us roll all our strength, and all
: : Our sweetness, up into one ball;
: : And tear our pleasures with rough strife
: : Thorough the iron gates of life.
: : Thus, though we cannot make our sun
: : Stand still, yet we will make him run.