The Mind

Nosce Teipsum: Objection II

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

The Mind

Yet say these men, If all her organs die,
Then hath the soule no power her powers to vse;
So, in a sort, her powers extinct doe lie,
When vnto act shee cannot them reduce.

And if her powers be dead, then what is shee?
For sith from euery thing some powers do spring,
And from those powers, some acts proceeding bee,
Then kill both power and act, and kill the thing.

MLA

Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: Objection II.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/84/.

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Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: Objection II.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/84/.

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