To His Coy Mistress lie / Deserts of vast eternity. Andy Marvell, What a Marvel'. The line "A fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace" appears in Stephen King's novel "Pet Sematary". The line "My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow" is quoted by William S. Burroughs in the last entry of (July 29, 1997). To His Coy Mistress "To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. This poem is
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed the blason, metaphysical conceit, neoplatonism and allusion are used by Donne in this work. Throughout the poem, Donne's male speaker urges his mistress into bed. Donne's speaker fervently describes undressing and caressing his mistress, and at the end, the speaker reveals that he is fully unclothed and erect. The process of disrobing is followed from top to toe, centred on the belly and vulva, and each stage compares the beauty of dress as external decoration with the natural beauty of the undressed woman. Donne's poem reinvents Petrarchan poetic conventions, which figured around the despair and heartache brought about by unattainable