 Our two souls, therefore, which 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...  Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review - Page 2481882Full view - About this book
 | John Alan Roe - Drama - 2002 - 238 pages
...delivery, sound an echo of 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning': 'Our two souls therefore, which are one, / Though I must go, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion'. If, however, we feel that Donne's sentiments are too heartfelt to warrant our suspicion, then we might... | |
 | Edward Docx - Fiction - 2003 - 376 pages
..."Woman's Constancy," though. 29. A Valediction, Forbidding Mournirv Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...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... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 444 pages
...conceit, famously compares sex to a flea and two lovers to a compass: Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...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... | |
 | Philip Raisor - Sports & Recreation - 2003 - 208 pages
...manifestation of John Donne's poem, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning": Our two souls therefore, which are one Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. She seriously said that she liked the fact of ether better; it was less fractional and more invasive... | |
 | Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, James S. Malek - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 370 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, 20 Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are 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... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...developed more complicatedly in "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning": Our two souls therefore, which 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... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...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... | |
 | Brian Jay Corrigan - Fiction - 2005 - 332 pages
...throat and closed her eyes in concentration before speaking again: "Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat." "John Donne. " world-loved poetry. Mr. Macgruer gave it to me. He is a poet, too."... | |
 | 張錯 - Literature - 2005 - 360 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 193 pages
...most quoted passages in English poetry may demonstrate the point: Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but...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... | |
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