Category: England, 1640-60, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

Read Andrew Marvell’s biography Learn why Andrew Marvell was a metaphysical poet (TBD). Prepare for reading the poem with these facts: In Marvell’s day, it was a very symbolic world.  Plants, flowers, trees, and...

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’...