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
 | Rina Huber - 1940 - 336 pages
...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 th'other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when... | |
 | Ilana M. Blumberg - 2007 - 199 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 th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet... | |
 | Jack Richardson - 2009 - 194 pages
...Forbidding Mourning', the poet compares the union of himself with his lover to a draftsman's compass: 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 odier do; And though it in the center sit, Yet... | |
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