Looking for literary reference of love poem

[completebeginner]

Hi,

I know that this is going to be somewhat of a "hail Mary" question.
Back in high school in an English literature class we read a passage
from what I think was a poem (as opposed to regular prose). I don't
remember the title nor the author, but I vaguely remember a metaphor
in it. It was a love "poem" that compared two lovers to the legs of a
compass (the type that is used in drawing circles). And from what I
remember of the teacher's explanation, the comparison was in equating
the motion of the compass legs (when one moved, the other followed) to
two lovers.

I don't even remember the approximate date, buy I'm guessing maybe
during the period of Romanticism?

I would really appreciate any names or work titles that may deal with
this metaphor, especially the original.

Thanks

[Robert Cohen]

It's an easy google thing: compass lovers search

http://www.google.com/search?q=compass+lovers+poem&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I'm betting obscure sonnet purveyor, Wm S's "Ode To Our True North"