To His Coy Mistress
Had they world enough and time, the speaker allows, her coyness would be no crime, and he would spend a hundred years praising her eyes and thirty thousand on the rest. But time's winged chariot is audible behind him, and the argument turns to the marble vault where nobody embraces and the worms try what she has been preserving. The most anthologised carpe diem poem in English, and the tightest piece of persuasion the metaphysical manner produced.
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