 | Lynn Montross, Lois Montross - 1917 - 320 ページ
...century, but to-night you must think of me as his devout echo." Ames recited in a low, glib singsong: "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our love's long day . . . And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable... | |
 | Norman Ault - 1928 - 544 ページ
...than the sun you see, Fall down, fall down and worship it, for that is she. Anon. To his coy Mistress HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady,...our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side SI mi ili 1st rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before... | |
 | Charles M. Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars - 2008 - 400 ページ
...time taken in courtship and preliminaries. Consider Andrew Marvell's delightful To His Coy Mistress: Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 ページ
...following poem is another of the meter's great moments: To His COY MISTRESS (Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678) Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady...down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long Loves Day. Thou by the Indian Ganges side Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humber' would complain.... | |
 | Michael Graubart Levin - 2001 - 180 ページ
...wrong." What a rare find is a capable wife! Her worth is far beyond that of rubies. PROVERBS 31:10 Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness Lady were no crime . . . You should if you please refuse to the conversion of the Jews. ANDREW MARVELL, ENGLISH POET,... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop - 200 ページ
...about. A reading of 'To his Coy Mistress' will dispel any feeling that Marvell is only ever luke-warm: 'Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness lady were no crime' (1-2). Given an almost unlimited span of time and space, love could be taken gently and easily. It's... | |
 | Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, James S. Trefil - 2002 - 944 ページ
...Din" (1890) A poem by Rudyard KIPLING about the native water carrier for a British regiment in INDIA. Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime The first lines of "To His Coy Mistress," a poem by the seventeenth-century English poet Andrew Marvell.... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 346 ページ
...temains little shott of bteathtaking: Had we but Wotld enough, and Time, This coyness Lady wete no ctime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass out long Loves Day. Thou by the /tuiian Ganges side Should'st Rubies find: l by the Tide Of Humbet... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 ページ
...Poems of the English Language, ed. Oscar Williams (New York: Washington Square Press, Inc., 1967) H1. Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady,...long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side, Should 'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the... | |
 | Nick Earls - 2003 - 372 ページ
...close-up, losing half of SOPHlE'S face, then a change of mind and reversion to previous framing.) SOPHlE "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...which way To walk, and pass our long love's day." He said that once. It's from a poem, but the poem's about time, so don't get any big ideas, just because... | |
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To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain. 
