 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...oftwqovers ar If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix't foot, 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... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1917 - 312 pages
...in a stanza condemned by Johnson, but praised by most critics, the comparison of himself and her to a pair of compasses : — "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 the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 pages
...comparing lovers to a pair of dividers : 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. Several of these poets, commonly grouped in a class which includes Donne, Herbert, Cowley,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1922 - 342 pages
...fixed foot. "If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. f And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other...other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot obliquely run, Thy firmness makes my circle just,... | |
 | Henry W. Wells - 1924 - 256 pages
...thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin 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 center sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as... | |
 | 1925 - 638 pages
...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...other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when th' other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, A. id grows erect as that comes home. Such... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
...thinness beat. 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 th' other do. And though it in (he centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the lixt foot, makes no show To move, hut doth if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roiun, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...comparing lovers to a pair of dividers : 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. Several of these poets, commonly grouped in a class which includes Donne, Herbert, Cowley,... | |
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