03.09.05By Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
To talk and pass our long love's day
Thou by the Indian Granges' 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
Vader than empires, and more slow
A hundred years should go to praise
Thin eyes, and on they forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast
But thirty-thousand for 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
No in the marble vaults shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity
And your quaint honor turned 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 your skin like mourning dew,
And while they willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languist in his low-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our stength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball
And tear our pleasure with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
This poem gives me shivers...I WISH I had that talent...*Feels suddenly inadequate*
*Sigh* Oh well. Its one of my favorites, I thought I'd share it with those of you who haven't read it.
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