 To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 38by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...this fashion by John Donne : — Our two souls, therefore, which art' one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...two, they are two so, As stiff twin compasses are two ; The soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 626 pages
...Careless 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...two, Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans... | |
 | English lyrics - 1883 - 340 pages
...Careless, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which arc one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | 1887 - 708 pages
...of Donne's : — " Our two sonls, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but au expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two, BO As stiff twin-compasses are two. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th'... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...style.* Our two souls therefore — which are one— Though I must go, endure ' not yet A breach,2 but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat....so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 260 pages
...kind analyzed or even touched by unsympathetic people. This is a feeling which may not be praise* " If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses...two, Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit. Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 264 pages
...kind analyzed or even touched by unsympathetic people. This is a feeling which may not be praise* " If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses...two, Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...the two legs of a pair of compasses. Our two souls, therefore, which are ond Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy...so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do, And, though it in the centre sit, Yet,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...hands, eyes, or lips to miss. l' 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. ~f~ ''I." we be two ? we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...Careless 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...two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Th> soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre... | |
| |
