 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 211912Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 316 pages
...therefore, which are one," and four lines later in the same poem, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "If they be two, they are two so /As stiff twin compasses are two" (my italics). Not even an "or" to oil the change. Nothing is (or means to be) settled. Rather, a feeling... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...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 fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth , if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet... | |
 | Edward Docx - 2003 - 376 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... | |
 | Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, James S. Malek - 2007 - 370 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. And though it in the center sit, 30 Yet... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2003 - 444 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 the other do; And though it in the center sit, Yet... | |
 | Reuven Tsur - 2003 - 388 pages
...twin compasses are two. Thy soule, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th'other doe. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth rome, It leans and hearkens after it, And growes erect as that comes home. Milton uses the compass... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 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... | |
 | 張錯 - 2005 - 360 pages
...表愛情的堅韌， 並以製圖圓規作巧喻， 代表戀人永不分離: If they be two, they are two so As stiff compasses are 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 and hearkens... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - 2006 - 193 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... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins, Matthew Steggle - 2006 - 166 pages
...pair of separated lovers are compared to the twin legs of a pair of metal compasses. If [our souls] 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. (Gardner, 1957,74) A pair of compasses... | |
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