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 Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed "Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed", originally spelled "To His Mistris Going to Bed", is a poem written by the metaphysical poet John Donne. The elegy was refused a licence for publishing in Donne's posthumous collection, "Poems", in 1633, but was printed in an anthology, "The Harmony of the Muses" in 1654. The poem is classified as one of Donne's love poems, "marked by an energetic, often bawdy wit, a new explicitness about sexual desire and experience, and an irreverent new attitude towards authority figures". Several poetic conventions, such as