 | John Charles Hawley - Religion - 1994 - 264 pages
...natural state. Admiring herself for what she is, in Book 4, Eve is told to turn away from herself: ... but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft imbraces, hee Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes... | |
 | J. Hillis Miller - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 308 pages
...image: There I had fixt Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warnd me, What thou seest, What there thou seest fair Creature is thyself, With thee it comes and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow staies Thy coming and thy soft... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...announces, in agreement with Froula. The subsequent verses in the poem qualify this reading, however: "With thee it came and goes: but follow me, / And...will bring thee where no shadow stays / Thy coming" (469-71). If Eve is actually a reflection, then she is at the same time much more than that. Verse... | |
 | Anna Julia Cooper - History - 1998 - 374 pages
...love; there I had fixed Mine eyes till now, — and pined with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warned me. "What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair...thyself; With thee it came and goes; but follow me, 5. John Milton (1608-1674): author of Paradist Lost, (1667), from which the long extract following... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...shadow of herself and not its other. The voice draws her from her image with a compensatory offer: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft imbraces, hee Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine to him shalt bear Multitudes... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 540 pages
...desire, Had not a voice thus warnd me, What thou seest, What there thou seest fair Creature is thy self, With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow staies 470 Thy coming, and thy soft imbraces, hee Whose image thou art, him thou shall enjoy Inseparablie... | |
 | Susanne Woods - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 236 pages
....... there I had fixed Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warn'd me, What thou seest, What there thou seest fair Creature is thyself. (IV. 459, 465-68) The voice leads her to Adam, whom she finds "less fair, / Less winning soft, less... | |
 | Robert Faggen - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 380 pages
...voice warned me: 'What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself, With thee it comes and goes; but follow me, And I will bring thee where...thy soft embraces, he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 pages
...seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself: With thee it came and goes: but follow me, 470 And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming,...soft embraces — he Whose image thou art; him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine; to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called 475... | |
 | Richard Bradford - Electronic books - 2001 - 236 pages
...love; there I had fixed Mine eyes till now. and pined with vain desire. Had not a voice thus warned me. What thou seest, What there thou seest fair creature...thyself. With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And 1 will bring thee where no shadow stays They coming, and thy soft embraces, he Whose image thou art,... | |
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What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself, With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine... 
