" The Ptolemaic model informs its central metaphor of the lovers as a compass, and it begins the speaker asking his wife for "No tear-floods" because "'Twere profanation of our joys /
Its third stanza argues that while the "Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears," the "trepidation of the spheres" is innocent. Its fourth stanza criticizes "dull sublunary lovers" focused on physical love, unlike the addressee, who is asked to be "Inter-assured of the mind," and to "Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss." The speaker compares his lover's soul to "a fixed foot," which must "obliquely run" around his, and argues that his lover's "firmness makes my circle just / And makes me end where I begun." The Ptolemaic model informs its central metaphor of the lovers as a compass, and it begins the speaker asking his wife for "No tear-floods" because "'Twere profanation of our joys / To tell the laity of our love." FTP, name this John Donne poem asking his wife not to grieve at his parting.
Its third stanza argues that while the "Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears," the "trepidation of the spheres" is innocent.
“A {Valediction: Forbidding Mourning}”