Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the...Learn More

Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use, Did after him the world seduce, And from the fields the flowers and plants allure Where Nature was most plain and pure. He first inclosed within the gardens square A dead and standing pool of air, And a more luscious earth for them did knead Which stupefied them while it fed. The pink grew then as double as...Learn More