This poem describes a "love so much refined that ourselves know not what it is, inter-assured of the mind."
This poem describes a "love so much refined that ourselves know not what it is, inter-assured of the mind." In its third stanza, the speaker claims that "trepidation of the spheres" is "innocent," though "moving of th' earth brings harms and fears." This poem uses the simile "like gold to aery thinness beat" to describe the expansion of two souls. It ends by stating, "thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begun" after expounding the metaphor of the speaker and his lover as the two legs of a compass. For 10 points, name this John Donne poem attempting to dispel the sadness of a farewell
This poem describes a "love so much refined that ourselves know not what it is, inter-assured of the mind."
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"