Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONFIDENT SCIENTIST, by ALEXIS First Line: Discovery attends on every quest Last Line: This common home to which we're born, defy them? Subject(s): Science; Scientists | ||||||||
DISCOVERY attends on every quest, Except for renegades who shirk the toil. Now certain men have pushed discovery Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know, -- How planets rise and set and wheel about, And of the sun's eclipse. If men have probed Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth, This common home to which we're born, defy them? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REACTIONARY ESSAY ON APPLIED SCIENCE by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM by HILAIRE BELLOC AN AMERICAN SCENE by NORMAN DUBIE WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE by ROBERT FROST DIXIT INSIPIENS by CAROLYN KIZER |
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