...Shakespeare. A more interesting parallel might be drawn from Donne's A Valediction Forbidding Mourning: Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense)...because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. 344 Donne's love poetry is often pitched in a similar thought-sense continuum to The Phoenix and the...

...Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense)...elemented it. But we, by a love so much refined That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss....

...trepidation of the spheares, Though greater farre, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers love (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove...things which elemented it. But we by a love, so much refin'd, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care lesse, eyes, lips, and...

...trepidation of the spheares, Though greater farre, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers love (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove...things which elemented it. But we by a love, so much refin'd, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care lesse, eyes, lips, and...

...Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense)...elemented it. But we by a love so much refined That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss....

...wanted no mourning, pointing out that: "Dull sublunary lovers' love... cannot admit of absence," while "we by a love so much refined, that ourselves know not what it is... our two souls therefore, which are one, though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion..."...