Comparison of To His Coy Mistress and The Sun Rising

The Sun Rising by John Donne
In my opinion, this is one of the very great poems in the English language. It is essentially a dramatic poem: the poet and his mistress or his wife are in bed together, deeply in love, as the sunlight streams into the bedroom through the curtained windows.
At one level, the poem is one enormous joke at the sun's expense. Because the couple feel that their life together is perfect and complete, without any need for anything or anyone else, the poet tells the sun to stop being a nuisance and to leave them alone. He then tells the sun that the world of ordinary people outside the window isn't the real world, and that his lover is worth much more than anything the sun can ever find outside that bedroom, which has become the real world as far as the lovers are concerned.
At a deeper level, Donne argues that Love is the ultimate reality, beyond the limits of Time and Space. Love is, in fact, eternal.
Stanza 1
This is the only love poem ever written which...