" It describes "your quaint honour turn to dust" and notes that "worms shall try" withering a certain quality that is "long preserv'd."
This poem is the epigraph to Eric Auerbach's Mimesis, and line 186 of "The Wasteland," about "chuckle spread from ear to ear" is a reference to this poem. Its last stanza describes the "willing soul" that "transpires at every pore with instant fires." It describes "your quaint honour turn to dust" and notes that "worms shall try" withering a certain quality that is "long preserv'd." This poem notes that "the grave's a fine and private place" and "before us lie deserts of vast eternity." The speaker of this poem imagines finding rubies by the Ganges and says that his "vegetable love should grow faster than empires, and more slow." Its speaker claims to hear "time's winged chariot hurrying near." For 10 points, name this poem that begins "Had we but world enough, and time" written by Andrew Marvell.
This poem is the epigraph to Eric Auerbach's Mimesis, and line 186 of "The Wasteland," about "chuckle spread from ear to ear" is a reference to this poem.
"To His Coy Mistress"