English Poetry. Margaret Cavendish. What is Liquid?. Маргарет Кавендиш.

Margaret Cavendish (Маргарет Кавендиш)

What is Liquid?

All that doth flow we cannot liquid name
Or else would fire and water be the same;
But that is liquid which is moist and wet
Fire that property can never get.
Then 'tis not cold that doth the fire put out
But 'tis the wet that makes it die, no doubt.

Margaret Cavendish’s other poems:

1. What Atomes Make the Wind Collick
2. What Atomes Make Death
3. Cavendish
4. The Weight of Atomes
5. Motion Directs, While Atomes Dance

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