 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...  The Modern Language Review - Page 281912Full view - About this book
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...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 no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. 34 obliquely - at an angle. The Funeral... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...standard example— one senses the intellectual strain and ingenuity required to justify the comparison: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses...the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if t'other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and harkens... | |
 | John Donne - 1998 - 308 pages
...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 To move, but doth, if th'other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...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 To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when... | |
 | John Donne - 2000 - 532 pages
...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 To move, but doth, if th'other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | Alison E. Denham - 2000 - 392 pages
...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 To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
 | Chris Hoffman - 2000 - 244 pages
...feet of a compass used for drawing a circle. Penelope, holding the center, is "the fixt foot, which makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and harkens after it, And grows erect, as that... | |
 | Arien Mack - 2001 - 414 pages
...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 fixed foot, makes no show To move, but cloth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
 | Richard Beard, Reva Beard - 2002 - 396 pages
...letters, I am reminded of the following stanza from John 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,... | |
 | Prof. Ruthann Knechel Johansen - 2002 - 256 pages
...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 To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
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