margaret cavendish. of many worlds in this world. [poems]

Just like as in a nest of boxes round, 
Degrees of sizes in each box are found: 
So, in this world, may many others be 
Thinner and less, and less still by degree: 
Although they are not subject to our sense, 
A world may be no bigger than two-pence. 
Nature is curious, and such works may shape, 
Which our dull senses easily escape: 
For creatures, small as atoms, may be there, 
If every one a creature’s figure bear. 
If atoms four, a world can make, then see 
What several worlds might in an ear-ring be: 
For, millions of those atoms may be in 
The head of one small, little, single pin. 
And if thus small, then ladies may well wear 
A world of worlds, as pendents in each ear.
Cavendish, Margaret. "Of Many Worlds in this World". The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 5th ed. Eds. Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy. New York, London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.