The poem "To his coy Mistress" reminds me a lot of the first couple of scenes of the musical "7 brides for 7 brothers". In this musical the oldest brother and his brothers live a day's travel from the town, so he doesn't go often. So when he goes to town and sees a pretty girl he convinces the girl to marry him claiming that he didn't have time to court her, to sway her, to dwindle. Instead he calls her to seize the day and marry him, and she does.
This poem is in between to lovers and how the male wishes for the female to give into him. To not waste time in what he would of done if he had time (which is what the entire first half of the poem is spent explaining). He claims he wouldn't love her less if she would succumb to his ways, and begs her to join him in his race against time.
This poem carries a tone of urgency, but perhaps even some regret as the they has to forgo those things due to time
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