[*] and "Deserts of vast eternity".
The narrator of this poem "by the tide / of Humber would complain" and claims the addressee will "rubies find" by "the Indian Ganges' side"; it also notes that "the grave is a fine and private place", using the images of "am'rous birds of prey" [*] and "Deserts of vast eternity". The narrator will continue "Till the conversion of the Jews," and hears "Time's chariot hurrying near". Beginning "Had we but world enough, and time," this is, for 10 points, what carpe diem poem whose narrator tries desperately to bed the title maiden, by Andrew Marvell?
The narrator of this poem "by the tide / of Humber would complain" and claims the addressee will "rubies find" by "the Indian Ganges' side"; it also notes that "the grave is a fine and private place", using the images of "am'rous birds of prey"
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