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Time is Running Out! A fascination with many people is to go back in time, and live the simple life, or to gain something when they were younger. In the literary works of Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” time is expressed as an excuse to seize the day. In the poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” Herrick encourages young people to seize the day before it is too late. While Marvell in “To His Coy Mistress,” uses time as an attempt to manipulate his coy mistress. Both poems share the common theme of mortality and the ever-pressing hand of time. “To His Coy Mistress” and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” are both haunted by the passage of time, and advocate finding pleasure in the here and now. In the Poem “To His Coy Mistress,” there is a sense of time passing quickly. For the first stanza states “Had we b