In the first stanza of this poem, the author tells his beloved that "the last age should show your heart" after their passions subside. The speaker's desire runs so deep that he would love her "ten years before the flood," but she could, "if [she] please, refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews." The second stanza expresses the author's angst about the future, when "Thy beauty shall no more be fo
In the first stanza of this poem, the author tells his beloved that "the last age should show your heart" after their passions subside. The speaker's desire runs so deep that he would love her "ten years before the flood," but she could, "if [she] please, refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews." The second stanza expresses the author's angst about the future, when "Thy beauty shall no more be found," so he comes back to suggest that they "roll all [their] strength and all / [Their] sweetness up into one ball" near the end. Opening with the conjecture "Had we but world enough, and time," FTP name this poem in which the author hears "Time's winged chariot hurrying near," the most famous work of Andrew Marvell.
In the first stanza of this poem, the author tells his beloved that "the last age should show your heart" after their passions subside.
"To His Coy Mistress"