The Mind

Nosce Teipsum: The Locall Motion

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

The Mind

This makes the pulses beat, and lungs respire,
This holds the sinewes like a bridle's reines;
And makes the Body to aduance, retire,
To turne or stop, as she them slacks, or straines.

Thus the soule tunes the bodie's instrument;
These harmonies she makes with life and sense;
The organs fit are by the body lent,
But th' actions flow from the Soule's influence.

MLA

Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: The Locall Motion.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/58/.

Chicago

Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: The Locall Motion.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/58/.

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