 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but...  The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ... - Seite 20von Izaak Walton - 1824 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 Seiten
...our circle, we bring our heads (sc. feet) together at the end." Dr. Donne: It we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two; Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. And though thine in the centre sit. Yet when my other far does roam. Thine leans and... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 Seiten
...the mind, Care less eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
 | John Donne - 1998 - 308 Seiten
...mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. 20 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
 | John Donne - 2000 - 532 Seiten
...mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. 20 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
 | Alison E. Denham - 2000 - 392 Seiten
...the mind, Care less eyes, lips and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one. Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
 | Arien Mack - 2001 - 414 Seiten
...is followed by several applications of the compass Our two souls, therefore, which are one Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion Like gold to aery thinness beast. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," a love is being beaten: Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If the image of a beating isn't mourning, it's at least a suppressed cry of anguish, masochism muffled... | |
 | Prof. Ruthann Knechel Johansen - 2002 - 256 Seiten
...power of the closing stanzas to my full consciousness. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show... | |
 | Cynthia Bourgeault - 2001 - 244 Seiten
...souls, therefore, which are one" — in the words of John Donne's immortal "Valediction" — though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat." For the two of us, this has certainly been the case. Rafe and I always suspected, given the limitations... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 Seiten
...beginning with 'Dull sublunary lovers' and ending with Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. This vision of two souls as one is described by Graves as a glimpse that Donne allows himself 'of what... | |
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