Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": Line 1
From Prufrock:
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you will meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
From "To His Coy Mistress": (Lines 1 - 4)
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.
Explanation
In "To His Coy Mistress", the narrator tries to convince his love interest that her being coy is wrong, since life is short.
Note: I realize this may seem like a very weak allusion, but I have seen others label it as an allusion, so here it is.
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