...chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a...

...chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And turn your quaint honour to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's...

...chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall be no more found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall fry That long preserved virginity. This is the poet's attempt to persuade his lover to make up her...

...by the seventeenth-century English poet, Andrew Marvell, in a poem dedicated to his 'coy mistress': The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. do, if alive. The value of living must reflect the importance of our valued capabilities our ability...

...opening "Had we but world enough and time" to the famous summarizing couplet, midway through the poem: "The grave's a fine and private place / But none I think do there embrace." Such blunt truths about life and sex would find their most expert analyst in the French aristocrat,...

...patients, or make music, or whatever one's work may be in the world of the dead! Andrew Marvell once wrote: The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.1 In reflecting on this section, one is reminded of an expression of the "enjoy" theme, given...

...found; Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try That long preserv'd Virginity: And your quaint Honour turn to dust; And...private place, But none I think do there embrace. CLOSE HYPERLINK 4.3.2 Verlaine's 'Parsifal' Parsifal à Jules Tellier Parsifal a vaincu les Filles,...

...chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And you quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave...

...especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing. - Mahatma Gandhi 31. Embrace The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), (To His Coy Mistress) Sea is a prison of the waves Shores are a prison...

...not surrender now, instead of waiting for death's seduction? You will not (he continues) feel it when The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. In the late nineteenth century, Walter Pater adapted the carpe diem theme to aesthetic theory, writing...