...uncertain victory, Our souls, (which to advance their state, Were gone out), hung 'twixt her, and me.0 And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral...our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day. If any, so by love refined, That he soul's language understood, And by good love were grown all mind,...

...about how love brings about the detachment of soul from two bodies. Our souls (which to advance their state Were gone out) hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst...souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay. The two souls then intertwine into one "abler soul." But as all several souls contain Mixture of things,...

...the opposing sides silently negotiate and Fate holds the outcome of the battle of wills in suspense: And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral...statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we did nothing, all the day. Here is a fourth simile: the lovers "lay / all day" "like sepulchral statues,"...

...thread / Our eyes"), even as the lovers' bodies lie like effigies on a tomb, in a flat-line death pose: And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral...our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day. To dwell for a moment on these lines: what do the souls, which are later said to mean and speak the...

...their state, Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee. And whil'st our soules negotiate there, Wee like sepulchral! statues lay, All day, the same our postures were, And wee said nothing, all the day. (John Donne, pub. 1633) On first glance, this extract represents the...

...two equal armies Fate CONDITION Suspends uncertain victory, 300 \ Our souls (which to advance their state Were gone out) hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst...our postures were, And we said nothing all the day. If any, so by love refined That he soul's language understood, And by good love were grown all mind,...

...an 'abler soul'. The earlier verse in the poem that has described the lovers' timeless union runs: And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral...postures were, And we said nothing, all the day.' 8 In its combination of serenely ironic humour and grave scepticism, the poem has some qualities in...

...an 'abler soul'. The earlier verse in the poem that has described the lovers' timeless union runs: And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral...same our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day.'8 In its combination of serenely ironic humour and grave scepticism, the poem has some qualities...

...and "sex," led to unexpected destinations. "Our hands were firmly cemented," Donne wrote. "All the day the same our postures were / And we said nothing all the day." Leandra wasn't quite sure how the poetry, or even their hand-holding, translated to high school. It...

...to mingle perfectly in the air between them. Below, stone-still, in the grass, amid the violets, Wee like sepulchral statues lay, All day, the same our postures were, And wee said nothing, all the day. Donne's sepulchral statue could be smiling at the thought of this. The...