Social Commentaries

Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Wife

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Social Commentaries

The first of all our Sex came from the side of man,
I thither am return'd, from whence our Sex began;
I doe not visite oft, nor many, when I doe,
I tell my mind to few, and that in counsell too:
I seeme not sick in health, nor sullen but in sorrow,
I care for somewhat else of, then what to weare to morrow.

MLA

Davies, John. “Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/170/.

Chicago

Davies, John. “Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World: The Wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/170/.

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