 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
 | Richard Beard, Reva Beard - 2002 - 396 Seiten
...Donne's A Valediction Forbidding Mourning: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. Reading these epistles entertained, informed, and healed me after the loss of... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," a love is being bearen: Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion. Like gold to aity thinness beat. If the image of a beating isn't mourning, it's at least a suppressed cry of anguish,... | |
 | Edward Docx - 2003 - 376 Seiten
...Constancy," though. 29. A Valediction, Forbidding Mournirv 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... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2003 - 444 Seiten
...compares sex to a flea and two lovers to a compass: 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... | |
 | Philip Raisor - 2003 - 208 Seiten
...Donne's poem, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning": 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. She seriously said that she liked the fact of ether better; it was less fractional and more invasive... | |
 | Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, James S. Malek - 2007 - 370 Seiten
...mind, 20 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. 25 If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 Seiten
...complicatedly in "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning": Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 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... | |
 | Brian Jay Corrigan - 2005 - 332 Seiten
...her eyes in concentration before speaking again: "Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat." "John Donne. " world-loved poetry. Mr. Macgruer gave it to me. He is a poet, too."... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - 2006 - 193 Seiten
...passages in English poetry may demonstrate the point: 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... | |
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