To His Coy Mistress

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Description

I quoted Andrew Marvell's poem during a course I was teaching on creative writing, and several students asked me to record the whole poem, so here it is.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
had we but world enough and time this coyness lady were no crime. We would sit and think which way to walk and pass our long love's day thou by the Indian Ganges side. Would Ruby's find I by the tide of Humble would complain. I would love you 10 years before the flood, and you should, if you please refuse till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires and more slow 100 years should go to praise Thigh Ny's on on my forehead. Gays 200 to adore each breast, but 30,000 to the rest. An age, at least to every part on the last age should show your heart for lady. You deserve this state, nor would I love at a lower rate. 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 nor in nine Marble vault shall sound my echoing song. Then worms shall try that long preserved virginity and your quaint honour turned the dust and into ashes. All my last, The grave's a fine and private place but none, I think, do there embrace now. Therefore, while the youthful hue sits on thigh skin like morning dew on while I willing, soul transpires at every poor with instant fires. Now let us sport us while we may and now like amorous birds of prey, rather at once our time devour than languish in his slow, chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all our sweetness up into one ball and tear our pleasures with rough strife, the rue the iron gates of life. Thus, though, we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we can make him run.