"Had we but world enough, and time"

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.

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near. 

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.*

Update: Incurable romantic Connecticut Yankee delights us with "Tiny's reply (from Song of Solomon 2:8-13)" in the comments:

The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.

My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

*Many thanks to our literary love consultant — who notes that "stolen moments are always the most romantic and the most fleeting" — for suggesting Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" to illuminate our latest photographic study of the grand passion between our own Sweet Tiny Pea and her mysterious admirer, the elusive Earl Grey.

Update II: Laura Lee links.

Comments

[goomp]

Love conquers all.

[Connecticut Yankee]

Tiny's reply (from Song of Solomon 2:8-13):

"The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.

"My beloved speaks and says to me: 'Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.'"

[retriever]

Love the quotes...Do they just sit and recite wordless cat sonnets to each other, or do they actually run away together? It's interesting to me (if they are both fixed?) that they like each other so much, as in our neighborhood the local Tom Cat and the fixed males alike all try to dominate and bully our fixed female cats. Both females hiss and spit and chase them away (sometimes as a duo). The kids say that a fixed female has the lowest status in a neighborhood of cats, but don't tell my cats that. They are rival princesses who rule our small domain, and both keep the 72 pound mutt firmly in her (subordinate) place...

[Gayle Miller]

Earl Grey is one handsome fellow. Does he own a human?

[Gayle Miller]

Incidentally if she is not neutered and he is, they can still enjoy each other. He just cannot "get her in the family way". This is an odd thing I learned from the hobby breeder who is responsible for the ever-beautiful, deeply silly fellow Tim who lives at my sister's house. She had a neutered male that she put with her breeding queens so they didn't have too many litters annually. He had fun and his fun stopped the heat, so to speak!