 | Alison Keith, Stephen Rupp, Stephen James Rupp - Ovide moralisé (Poem) - 2007 - 358 pages
...original narcissistic relation in which they were literally one flesh. He tells Eve that he must join her: "So forcible within my heart I feel | The Bond of Nature draw me to my owne, | My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; | Our State cannot be severd, we are one, | One... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 17 pages
...idolater. Adam himself justifies his impending fall by emphasizing the deep ties he feels to his wife: "The Bond of Nature draw me to my own, / My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; / Our State cannot be sever'd, we are one,/ One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself" (9.956—959). In... | |
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Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee,... 
