This poem lends its name to the Robert Penn Warren novel in which the Kentuckian Jeremiah Beaumont kills Colonel Cassius Fort
This poem lends its name to the Robert Penn Warren novel in which the Kentuckian Jeremiah Beaumont kills Colonel Cassius Fort. The speaker says that he always hears "Time's winged chariot hurrying near," so he says they should, "like amorous birds of prey," "tear our pleasures with rough strife through the iron gates of life." He could take things slow and for instance spend one hundred years praising his beloved's eyes, had they "but world enough and time," but this is not the case, so he concludes by entreating her to not waste time and stop playing hard to get. Name this carpe diem-themed poem by Andrew Marvell addressed to an aloof woman.
This poem lends its name to the Robert Penn Warren novel in which the Kentuckian Jeremiah Beaumont kills Colonel Cassius Fort.
“To His {Coy Mistress}”