 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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but...  The Complete Angler [and] the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and ... - Page 206by Izaak Walton - 1901 - 497 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Donne - English poetry - 1895 - 326 pages
...Now his breath goes," 1669. 2 Of absence, 'cause it doth remove, The thing which elemented it, iWd. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...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 fixt foot, makes no show... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. 2° Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I...an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1895 - 368 pages
...extraordinary concoctions of fancy. Their cold ingenuity is sometimes appalling ; as in this : " Our two souls, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A...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... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1895 - 368 pages
...extraordinary concoctions of fancy. Their cold ingenuity is sometimes appalling ; as in this : " Our two souls, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A...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... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...refined That ourselves know not what it is, 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 an expans1on, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 366 pages
...home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim : Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must...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 fixt foot, makes no show... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 320 pages
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must...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 fix'd foot, makes no show... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 322 pages
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must...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 fix'd foot, makes... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 448 pages
...ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind. Care less eyes, lips and hands to miss. :o Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must...breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.t If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot,... | |
 | Augustus Jessopp - Deans, Cathedral and collegiate - 1897 - 274 pages
...by a love so far refined, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less hands, eyes, or lips to miss. " Our two souls, therefore,...beat. "If we be two,— we are two — so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but does, if the other do.... | |
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