Who wrote the poem with the line, "had we but world enough and time."?

Question

Author would be nice as well.

Answer 1

Andrew Marvell-

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.

Answer 2

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), "To His Coy Mistress"

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime,
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near,
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.

It's an example of what (in those days) was called carpe diem (Latin for "seize the day").

Another favorite example of the same motif is

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that blooms today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

That one is, in fact, Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time." And, by the way, he lived to be some 83 years old (1591-1674).

However, life was often short in those days. If you wanted to get it on, you'd better not put it off.

Answer 3

I THINK it's Robert Herrick. He wrote it about the Queen, whom he could never have because...well...she was the Queen, obviously, and the king was none too happy about it.

Answer 4

don't know