Find quotes from this poem, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Time Quotes
HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime (lines 1-2)
Sex Quotes
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow (lines 11-12)
Mortality Quotes
But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near (lines 21-22)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
This coyness, Lady, were no crime (line 2)