"My vegetable love should grow...Forehead Gaze."-Explain

These lines are taken from 'To His Coy Mistress' written by Andrew Marvell. Here the poet complains against the mistress' coyness that prevents her from responding to the lover's ardent and passionate appeal. In this connection, he makes this witty and fanciful observation.

             The lover complains against the callousness on the part of his lady love in the matter of love making. The poet points out to his mistress that her coyness is of no sense in a transitory world. Time rolls on swiftly, and any coyness on the part of the lovers is meaningless. In this context, the poet lover wittily says that had there been an eternal time at their disposal, they could have continued their process of love prosaically without any bodily passion. His 'Vegetable Love' would have got much more time to grow vaster and slower than empires. There would have been no complaint on his part for they could have sufficient time to play with love.

        Marvell says ironically that had there been eternal time for them to live, the lover would well have patience to wait for her 'vegetable love' that would grow slowly for years together vaster than empires. There would have been no haste on his part in making love to her.