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" 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 28
1912
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the conies home. Such wilt thou l)e to me, who must, bike the other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmness makes...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 8

1882 - 686 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 ; The soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the...
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English Lyrics

English lyrics - 1883 - 340 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 centre sit, Yet when...
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The Andover Review, Volume 8

1887 - 710 pages
...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' other do. And i lui' it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And...
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...one— Though I must go, endure ' not yet A breach,2 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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Markedness Theory

Edna Andrews - 1990 - 204 pages
...conceit from his "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." He compares his and his lover's souls to a 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 other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, 64 instant There's nothing serious in mortality. All fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. (1. 25-28) BLPL; FF; HAP; HelP; HoPM;...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 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...
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Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows

Peter G. Baines - 1998 - 508 pages
...for a sufficiently wide channel, the flow becomes steady and fully twodimensional. Two-layer flows 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. JOHN DONNE, A Valediction: Forbidding...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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...
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