 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless 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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...ABSENCE. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breacli, but au arc two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 610 pages
...Like gold to airy 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 th1 other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 330 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Careless, 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 the other do. And though it in the centre... | |
 | Religion - 1887 - 708 pages
...of Donne's : — " Our two sonls, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but au expansion, Like gold to airy 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'... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...style.* Our two souls therefore — which are one— Though I must go, endure ' not yet A breach,2 but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat....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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Classicism - 1885 - 264 pages
...kind analyzed or even touched by unsympathetic people. This is a feeling which may not be praise* " 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 centre... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 260 pages
...kind analyzed or even touched by unsympathetic people. This is a feeling which may not be praise* " 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 centre... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...positions to those of the two legs of a pair of compasses. Our two souls, therefore, which are ond Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an...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 the centre... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...Inter-assured of the mind, Care not hands, eyes, or lips to miss. l' 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. ~f~ ''I." we be two ? we are two so As stiff twin-compasses are two : Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes... | |
| |
