Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": Lines 41 - 42
From Prufrock:
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
To say, "I am Lazurus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"-
If one, settling pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all."
From "To His Coy Mistress": (Lines 41 - 42)
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness into one ball
Explanation
In "To His Coy Mistress", the narrator tries to convince his love interest that her being coy is wrong, since life is short.
