Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 233)
“She with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind.”
The Fair Singer.
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She with her voice might captivate my mind." by Andrew Marvell?
Andrew Marvell 35
English metaphysical poet and politician 1621–1678Related quotes
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Context: I love her now beyond all words; she sees it, — she reads it in my eyes, and in my whole manner towards her. When I succeed in cheering her up, or call forth her smiles, I am beside myself with delight. There is at present in my love something of the attachment of the faithful servant who loves his mistress. I often feel as if I ought to humble myself before her, as if my proper place were at her feet. She never can grow ugly, changed, or old to me. I accept everything, agree to everything, and worship her as she is.
“So a lioness that has newly whelped, beset by Numidian hunters in her cruel den, stands upright over her young, gnashing her teeth in grim and piteous wise, her mind in doubt; she could disrupt the groups and break their weapons with her bite, but love for her offspring binds her cruel heart and from the midst of her fury she looks round at her cubs.”
Ut lea, quam saeuo fetam pressere cubili
venantes Numidae, natos erecta superstat,
mente sub incerta torvum ac miserabile frendens;
illa quidem turbare globos et frangere morsu
tela queat, sed prolis amor crudelia vincit
pectora, et a media catulos circumspicit ira.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 414
“Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands
I made her a widow, she made me a man.”
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