To His Coy Mistress...hyperboles?

Question

To His Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell

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 5
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 Jews.1 10
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate. 20

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound

Answer 1

Are you looking for examples of hyperbole in the poem?

Finding rubies by the Ganges
"Till the conversion of the Jews" (a Biblical allusion: until the Apocalypse)
Love growing in a physical form "vaster than empires"
Taking a century to praise the beloved's eyes
Forehead gazing for two centuries, etc.
Hearing time at one's back

Answer 2

To His Coy Mistress Hyperbole

Answer 3

You raise some good points in your question.

Answer 4

Never thought about it too much