{"id":168,"date":"2010-11-19T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-11-19T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T01:54:02","slug":"andrew-marvell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/168\/poems\/andrew-marvell\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Had we but world enough, and time,
\nThis coyness, lady, were no crime.
\nWe would sit down, and think which way
\nTo walk, and pass our long love’s day.
\nThou by the Indian Ganges’ side
\nShouldst rubies find; I by the tide
\nOf Humber would complain. I would
\nLove you ten years before the flood,
\nAnd you should, if you please, refuse
\nTill the conversion of the Jews.
\nMy vegetable love would grow
\nVaster than empires, and more slow;
\nAn hundred years should go to praise
\nThine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
\nTwo hundred to adore each breast,
\nBut thirty thousand to the rest;
\nAn age at least to every part,
\nAnd the last age should show your heart.
\nFor, lady, you deserve this state,
\nNor would I love at lower rate.<\/p>\n

But at my back I always hear
\nTime’s winged chariot rushing near:
\nAnd yonder all before us lie
\nDeserts of vast eternity.
\nThy beauty shall no more be found;
\nNor, in thy marble vaults, shall sound
\nMy echoing song; then worms shall try
\nThat long-preserved virginity,
\nAnd your quaint honour turn to dust,
\nAnd into ashes all my lust:
\nThe grave’s a fine and private place,
\nBut none, I think, do there embrace.<\/p>\n

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
\nSits on thy skin like morning dew,
\nAnd while thy willing soul transpires
\nAt every pore with instant fires,
\nNow let us sport us while we may,
\nAnd now, like amorous birds of prey,
\nRather at once our time devour
\nThan languish in his slow-chapped power.
\nLet us roll all our strength, and all
\nOur sweetness, up into one ball,
\nAnd tear our pleasure with rough strife
\nThrough the iron gates of life:
\nThus, though we cannot make our sun
\nStand still, yet we will make him run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}