In one poem, this author described the souls of two lovers enduring "not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat."
In one poem, this author described the souls of two lovers enduring "not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat." In another poem by this author, a pair of lovers are "cloistered in these living walls of jet." The lines "Thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begin" conclude this poet's analogy of a pair of lovers to the feet of a compass. This poet asked: "hast thou since purpled thy nail?" in a poem describing a creature that "sucked me first, and now sucks thee," and contains the speaker and his lover's "mingled blood." For 10 points, name this metaphysical poet who wrote "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and "The Flea."
In one poem, this author described the souls of two lovers enduring "not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat."
John Donne