tangere

The "Noli me tangere" reference to the Christian ideal whose spirit and language underpins the love-pursuit feels more risky, almost blasphemous, in Wyatt.

Love in literature 2011

Leo, little-known and restless, exuding feral hunger, his active, outdoor body contrasting with most of the other men present, since they appeared accustomed to being clothed was afforded more genuine, more avid attention than Annabel's paintings, to the extent that she was grateful that he studied them with a far from casual interest and an air ofnoli me tangere, no mean feat when virtually every woman in the room was angling for his attention.

Shenanigans 3 - Appreciation Sandra Davies 2010

It is not hard to see the weary hunter as the warned-off lover of Anne, and the last lines tend to confirm this:And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written her fair neck round about:Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,And wild for to hold though I seem tame.

The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011

The collar in Wyatt's poem declares:"Noli me tangere, for Cesars I ame;And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame."

Love in literature 2011

There is such anair of noli me tangere around the compound that even though there is asmall, unguarded opening in the fence, no one – no one – tries to enter it, not even the normally fearless paparazzi who stand outside ina cluster, sweating patiently in the heatof the sun.

Glastonbury 2010: Meet the celebrities 2010

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection Noli me tangere exhibited 1834

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

And, as is often the case with chypres meant for men, it smells exquisite on feminine skin...in that chic noli me tangere way all good chypres do, only more so.

The Third Man by Caron: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009

And, as is often the case with chypres meant for men, it smells exquisite on feminine skin...in that chic noli me tangere way all good chypres do, only more so.

Archive 2009-01-01 Marina Geigert 2009

Great Regulars: But this is still a love-poem, and nowhere more obviously than in that final, para-rhymed couplet, where, having quoted the injunction, Noli me tangere, the hind describes herself as "wild for to hold".

Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection Noli me tangere exhibited 1834

Noli me tangere 2009