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Annie Finch's "Coy Mistress" [5] suggests that poetry is a more fitting use of their time than lovemaking, while A.D. Hope's "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell" turns down the offered seduction outright. [6] Many authors have borrowed the phrase "World enough and time" from the poem's opening line to use in their book titles.
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed", originally spelled "To His Mistris Going to Bed", is a poem written by the metaphysical poet John Donne. The elegy was refused a licence for publishing in Donne's posthumous collection Poems in 1633, but was printed in an anthology, The Harmony of the Muses , in 1654. [ 1 ]
"To His Coy Mistress", "The Garden", "An Horatian Ode" Andrew Marvell ( / ˈ m ɑːr v əl , m ɑːr ˈ v ɛ l / ; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet , satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.
His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats. He was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen. He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems, including one in response to the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.
To His Coy Mistress; The Unfortunate Lover; The Gallery; The Fair Singer; Mourning; Daphnis and Chloe; The Definition of Love; The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers; The Match; The Mower Against Gardens; Damon the Mower; The Mower to the Glo-Worms; The Mower's Song; Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes; Musicks Empire; The Garden
In "Hansel and Gretel," Hansel speaks more often and for longer than his sister, and the first phrase he utters to her happens to be, "Quiet, Gretel." This explicit shushing is a common thread throughout the Grimms' take on folklore; spells of silence are cast on women more than they are on men, and the characters most valued by male suitors ...
The sooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is best, which is the first, When Youth and Blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime,
(Unless you mean in the alternate use of the word arguement, meaning his defense of his posistion. Even so, to avoid confusion that word should not be used here.) He is begging his mistress to have sex with him before they grow old, lose the desire to make love and die where her honour and his desire will mean nothing and the chance to enjoy ...