 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 pages
...lady, were no crime . . . My vegetable love should grow Vaster than Empires, and more slow . . . But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.' ' Time's winged chariot hurrying near * is exactly... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2001 - 420 pages
...'To His Coy Mistress', Andrew Marvell (162.1-78) describes being chased by time towards oblivion: But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. The very passing of time, which makes us so keen... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...the world And all her train were hurl'd. Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans, 'The World' (1650) T But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress (1681) s But... | |
 | Charles M. Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars - 2008 - 400 pages
...To His Coy Mistress: Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity . . . The grave's a fine and private place, But none,... | |
 | Gary Braver - 2000 - 454 pages
...was the soft raspy sigh of his last breath before the long long night closed down on him. Three But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. — ANDREW MARVELL, "To His COY MISTRESS" Zeuses... | |
 | Patrick Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, Paul Martin - 2001 - 276 pages
...the impatience that comes when lust is combined with the mature adults intimations of mortality: But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity, About the time that children grow up and have their... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pages
...age should show your heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found. Nor, in thy marble... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...coynte. Andrew Marvell's lines To His Coy Mistress (1650) seem to play on this sense of quaint: But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found: Nor, in thy marble... | |
 | Phillip Sipiora, James S. Baumlin - 2002 - 276 pages
...is deeply inscribed. Exhorting his "coy mistress" to seize the moment, Andrew Marvell writes, "But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near: / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity" (21-24), tnus weaving kairos, chronos, and aion... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor in thy marble... | |
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. 
