Had we but world enough and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way

Context: These lines are taken from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell.

Explanation: The first lines of “To His Coy Mistress,” a poem by the seventeenth-century English poet Andrew Marvell.

The poet tells a woman whom he loves that if they had endless time and space at their disposal, then he could accept her unwillingness to go to bed with him.

Life is short, however, and opportunities must be seized. The speaker of the poem starts by addressing a woman who has been slow to respond to his romantic advances.

In the first stanza he describes how he would pay court to her if he were to be unencumbered by the constraints of a normal lifespan.

He could spend centuries admiring each part of her body and her resistance to his advances (i.e.. coyness) would not discourage him. 

In the second stanza, he laments how short human life is. Once life is over, the speaker contends, the opportunity to enjoy another is gone as 10 obe embraces in death.

In the last stanza, the speaker urges the woman to requite his efforts, and argues that in loving one another with passion they will both make the most of the brief time they have to live

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