The Mind

Nosce Teipsum: She Hath no Contrary

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

The Mind

Perhaps her cause may cease, and she may die;
God is her cause, His Word her Maker was;
Which shall stand fixt for all eternitie
When Heauen and Earth shall like a shadow passe.

Perhaps some thing repugnant to her kind,
By strong antipathy, the Soule may kill;
But what can be contrary to the minde,
Which holds all contraries in concord still?

She lodgeth heat, and cold, and moist, and dry,
And life, and death, and peace, and war together;
Ten thousand fighting things in her doe lye,
Yet neither troubleth, or disturbeth either.

MLA

Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: She Hath no Contrary.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/77/.

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Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: She Hath no Contrary.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/77/.

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