The speaker of this work asks its addressee to "endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to aery thinness beat" after earlier expressing a desire to "melt, and make no noise." This poem's speaker criticizes those "whose soul is sense" and who engage in "dull sublunary lovers' love," arguing that while "Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears," the "trepidation of the spheres" is innocent. Its addressee's soul is compared to "the fix'd foot" around which the speaker must "obliquely run," and its speaker notes that "thy firmness makes my circle just / And makes me end where I begun." For 10 points, identify this poem that depicts a pair of lovers using the metaphysical conceit of a compass, a work of John Donne that urges n
The speaker of this work asks its addressee to "endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to aery thinness beat" after earlier expressing a desire to "melt, and make no noise." This poem's speaker criticizes those "whose soul is sense" and who engage in "dull sublunary lovers' love," arguing that while "Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears," the "trepidation of the spheres" is innocent. Its addressee's soul is compared to "the fix'd foot" around which the speaker must "obliquely run," and its speaker notes that "thy firmness makes my circle just / And makes me end where I begun." For 10 points, identify this poem that depicts a pair of lovers using the metaphysical conceit of a compass, a work of John Donne that urges no grieving upon parting.
The speaker of this work asks its addressee to "endure not yet /
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”