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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SCIENCE Matches Found: 422 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #NAME?, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: The man at the center Subject(s): Science Fiction A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE EIGHT PEARLE. SCIENCE, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Among the virtues intellectual, / the van is led by that we science call Last Line: And entertain with a most royal grace! Subject(s): Science; Scientists A CONCEPTION, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when we must descend or we must climb Last Line: Save through this painful plodding we have done. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Scientists A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ; WRITTEN ON EVE OF JOURNEY TO BRAZIL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the mountains talked together Last Line: Bless them now and evermore! Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Brazil; Farewell; Science; Brazilians; Parting; Scientists A HINT TO CHRISTIAN POETS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the jove, the phoebus, and the nine Last Line: Will rise spontaneous in your purer breast. Subject(s): Bible; Christian Science; Christianity; Poetry & Poets A REFLEX, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear my rigmarole. Last Line: That there is an it? Subject(s): Science; Scientists A WOODEN EYE. AN 1884 SILVER DOLLAR. A HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVE. A SET OF FALSE TEETH. AND A 14-KARAT GOLD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says my wife, and then she looks up from her book Subject(s): Science Fiction A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 5. THE TELLING OF STORIES, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Science? It comes from the forehead of the snake Last Line: But within its extravagant realm, in its heights and depths. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists ABOVE THE HUMAN NERVE DOMAIN, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To unlock predisposives in carbon Last Line: Of the bell of a bloodless liminal amber Subject(s): Science; Scientists ADVENT OF PEACE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the red field strode an armed knight Subject(s): Science ADVENTURE, by WILLOUGHBY WEAVING Poem Source First Line: Among the stars my dreams I set Subject(s): Science ADVENTURERS OF SCIENCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a microscope and a butterfly net and a specimen case they go Last Line: Fare forth on the trail of truth! Subject(s): Knowledge; Microscopes; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Scientists; Educators; Professors AFTER BLOK, by WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER Poem Source First Line: The night, the street, the light, the chemist Subject(s): Science AGAINST HELIOCENTRICITY, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: The thought's tormenting me Subject(s): Science Fiction AGASSIZ, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Last Line: Than ours whose sense familiar wont makes numb. Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Friendship; Science; Scientists AIRMEN, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus, withthe old gods all at play Subject(s): Science AL PURDY & AE VAN VOGT, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Looking both ways %to the faint tracings hung in air Subject(s): Science Fiction ALL POWER IS IN ESSENCE POETICAL, by EUSEBIUS OF TYRE Poem Source Subject(s): Science ALL SCIENCE SEEMS PLACED ON HIGH, by FRANCIS BACON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron Subject(s): Science ALL THE USUAL SCI-FI, by LAURA LEE WASHBURN Poem Source First Line: The year 2129, no one uses prepositions Last Line: The desperately quaint asphalt streets Subject(s): Science Fiction AMBITIOUS TO WAKE UP, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something you said a while back intrigued me. I had asked you for a Subject(s): Science Fiction AMBIVALENCE OF SEX, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: Who is the man Subject(s): Science Fiction AMOURS DE VOYAGE (COMPLETE), by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits Last Line: When from janiculan heights thundered the cannon of france Subject(s): Science AN AMERICAN SCENE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach beyond the laboratory brain. The brass Last Line: The brain glowed in the dark above us. Subject(s): Escapes; Lust; Science; Fugitives; Scientists AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that rich soule which to her heaven is gone Last Line: The grave keepes bodies, verse the fame enroules. Variant Title(s): To The Praise Of The Dead Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; Science; World; Scientists AN IRREGULAR SUPPLICATORY ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMIES, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye learned wights, who all the heights Last Line: That arcanum -- perpetual motion. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lectures; Perpetual Motion; Scholarship & Scholars; Science; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Scientists ANATOMICAL TRANSPARENCIES, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: When the skin is stripped off our arguments Subject(s): Science Fiction AND A PERFECT FEAST OF NECTAR'D SWEETS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science ANIMALISMS, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Moon silver splinters adrift in flakes Subject(s): Science Fiction ANTEDILUVIAN, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Antediluvians %old land lords Subject(s): Science Fiction ANTI-GRAVITY, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Physicists have found a fource Last Line: I suggest, for brevity, %levity Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Science ANTIPATER OF SIDON, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, corinth, charm incarnate, are your Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Science ANTISEPTICS- LENSES, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: The world swings on- pasteur is now no more? Subject(s): Science ARCHAEOLOGY, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I will return to dig Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Science ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN & EDWARD BRYANT, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Clanking' %it rankles a Subject(s): Science Fiction ARMY, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: This weighty machine Last Line: One two, one two Subject(s): Tanks (military Science) ASCENSION, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The ocean of air carried on the shoulders Subject(s): Science Fiction ASSASSIN, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: It was extraordinary how easily he fell. I had expected something more Subject(s): Science Fiction ASTRONOMICAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "cousin edward, what do these scientists mean" Last Line: He'll think it a lunar eclipse Subject(s): Eclipses;science; Scientists AUTOPHAGIA IN TRAUMATIZED RATS DURING INANITION, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Carroll blue nash and his traumatized rats Last Line: (nash said) themselves 'from this source' Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rats; Science AUTUMN GOD, by MARGARET W. PARADISE Poem Source First Line: A god who makes %swift clouds Subject(s): Science AWAKEN, SOUND!, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Awaken sound! And let your moorings sway Last Line: In holy unison that will astound. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sound; Scientists BACH, IN THE FUGUES AND PRELUDES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentedly with strictest [or rigorous] strands confined Last Line: Or roll against the stars their rock-bound song. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians; Science; Scientists BALANCE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you who build the people's toys Subject(s): Science BALLADE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up through the amethystine air Subject(s): Science BEACON, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: The caul's hung on a line Subject(s): Science Fiction BEIRUT TANK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staring up into the tank's belly lit Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Tanks (military Science) BENHAM'S DISK: 1. MUTATION, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Beside a rolling tire, a child skips Last Line: Evolution: a child born the color of mourning Subject(s): Birth; Evolution; Science BEYOND ELECTRONS, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE Poem Text First Line: They who once probed and doubted now believe Last Line: And find a living god behind his deeds. Subject(s): Faith; Religion & Science; Belief; Creed BEYOND THE ATOM, by JANICE BLANCHARD Poem Text First Line: A myriad charged electrons coursing around Last Line: Of super-sensory intelligence. Subject(s): Science; Scientists BIO-DIVINATION, by KRIS CHRISTENSEN MACIAS Poem Source First Line: He squeezes my body onto glass Last Line: His hot forehead warms my cheek. He breath %fills my bruised well Subject(s): Science; Sickness BIOGRAPHY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will not answer now Last Line: But will not answer now and not answer Subject(s): Science BIRD OF FELICITY FLEW, by WILLOUGHBY WEAVING Poem Source Subject(s): Science BREAKING INTO THE CRYSTAL TEXT, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: Each step echoes %in the interstices of this knowledge Subject(s): Science Fiction BROTHER MAN, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His little hopes, his little fears Subject(s): Science CARD #27, by MARK LABA Poem Source First Line: You monster sacrificing yourself to a mountain of glass Subject(s): Science Fiction CATALYST, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: Enzyme love, split me from the world Subject(s): Science Fiction CATASTROPHE THEORY II, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The foot goes forward, yes. Subject(s): Science; Scientists CERRO DE LA ESTRELLA, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: Living in the eternal digit of the present moment Subject(s): Science Fiction CERTAINTY, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: Who has told you this? Where do your messages come from? Subject(s): Science Fiction CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, by EDWARD R. HUXLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Christian Science CLONEHOUSE, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source First Line: The doubles ooze, %melt in their sex like cells Subject(s): Science Fiction CLONING, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Big fat russian mama Last Line: Sheep %-- clones %-- animate Subject(s): Science CLOUD SKIER, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Alone, %without world or woman Subject(s): Science Fiction CLOUDLAND SCENES, by UNKNOWN+14 Poem Source First Line: We rose at dawn, above a cold and leaden sea Subject(s): Science COLLEEN THIBAUDEAU & GORDON DICKSON, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: All those worlds %strung thru space but Subject(s): Science Fiction COMING OF AGE, by CORINNA VALLIANATOS Poem Source First Line: I'm hung from oiled hooks. My pierced back pulls away from its scaffolding Last Line: This too will become apparent Subject(s): Aging; Science COMPANIONS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I see in this still night Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Variant Title(s): Heavenworl Subject(s): Science CONQUEROR, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will not pass through the world as a Subject(s): Science CORRELATIONS, by ERWIN F. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I marvel oft at interweave of things Subject(s): Science COSMOLOGICAL HOLOPHRASTICS, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Holehearted %holotropic %wholehog Subject(s): Science Fiction CRYSTAL VISION, by LAWRENCE SCHIMEL Poem Source First Line: The prism bends a beam of light Last Line: I hold a rainbow in my hands Subject(s): Science DANGEROUS ASTRONOMY, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to walk outside and praise the stars, Last Line: And thought I was more important than the stars Subject(s): Science; Scientists DAPHNE MARLATT & SAMUEL R. DELANY, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: How the nets work Subject(s): Science Fiction DARIEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou partest sea from restless lover-sea Last Line: When science opens the gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Science; Scientists DECLINE, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the white pond Last Line: We climb towards midnight Subject(s): Science Fiction DESIRE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of love, joy Last Line: The desire of god . . . A flame-white secret for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists DESIRE OF MAN BEING INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science DESIRE WE PAST ILLUSIONS TO RECALL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flesh to exalt than prove its nothingness Subject(s): Knowledge; Science DINOSAUR BONE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source Last Line: Tell me, tell me, %dinosaur bone Subject(s): Science DISARMAMENT, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One spake amid the nations, 'let us cease Subject(s): Disarmament; Science DIVINE ASTROLOGY, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: Olympus holds high carnival tonight Subject(s): Science DIXIT INSIPIENS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first, it was only a trickle Last Line: If only disbelief was more like faith. Subject(s): Atheism; Religion; Science; Spirituality; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Scientists; Feminism DRUM, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source First Line: A simple melody derived from the black sea of music Subject(s): Science Fiction DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT & ROGER ZELANZNY, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Dark moves %on methane snow Subject(s): Science Fiction DUST, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cone of dust is dancing at the lane end Subject(s): Science DYING AIRMAN TO NATURE, by FREDERICK VICTOR BRANFORD Poem Source First Line: When the fountains of sun-fire were flameless Subject(s): Science DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo E. OF DORSET: 1. ARTIMESIA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' artemisia talks, by fits Last Line: All flutter, pride, and talk. Subject(s): Boyle, Robert (1627-1691); Locke, John (1632-1704); Malebranche, Nicolas De (1638-1715); Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl Of Dorset; Science; Buckhurst, Baron; Scientists EARTH WILL STAY THE SAME, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science EARTH'S VIGIL, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old earth keepeth her watch the same Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Science EDUCATIVE, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: One day, when I was ten or thereabouts Last Line: The deluded ramblings of old ma hope) Subject(s): Memory; Schools; Science ELECTRICIAN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sparks of the white-hot welder play Subject(s): Science ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away Last Line: Somewhere, some time? Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR, by HELEN WALLACE Poem Source First Line: I've never considered the effects of radiation Last Line: And you my son the world inside your cup %why did you form a cloud inside a bottle? Subject(s): Children; Science ENCOUNTER, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: We both stood %heart-stopping %still Last Line: He rose on a curve %and fled Subject(s): Science EPIGRAM: THE ROAD TO ROME, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Source First Line: Who to rome goes %much labour, little Subject(s): Science EPILOGUE, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: In my sci-fi b-movie, well-stocked Last Line: The vaporized amen of hot pine resin Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Science Fiction EPITAPH ON A PHILOSOPHER, by SAMUEL FOSTER DAMON Poem Source First Line: The sun, the moon, the stars, the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, S. Foster Subject(s): Science ESSAY: ON THE FIRST LINES OF THE INVOCATION TO LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (now we will speak of) Last Line: What good is a brain Subject(s): Light; Science; Scientists ESSAY: THE ALIEN & BEAUTIFUL LIGHT OF WAKING, RAIN, NIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening / announced on flight Last Line: Radiant radiant rain Subject(s): Atoms; Rain; Science; Scientists ETERNITY, by WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER Poem Source First Line: Alone on the white earth beneath her Subject(s): Science EVER UPWARD, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Ever onward, science! Last Line: Unwanted weight and soared aloft Subject(s): Science EVIL EYE, by HORACIO SALAS Poem Source First Line: Maybe that dark jaguar cruising bulnes station Subject(s): Science Fiction EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SCIENTIFIC WOOING, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a youth of studious mind Last Line: "a sweet ""quod erat demonstrandum!" Subject(s): Courtship; Science; Scientists EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: THE NEW ORTHODOXY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, dear fred, you're not content Last Line: Amy. Subject(s): Science; Scientists EXPERIMENT, by ANDREW FRISARDI Poem Source First Line: What a cruel game we played Last Line: Little leonardos looking on %with eyes as cold as the moon Subject(s): Cruelty; Explorers; Science EXPLORERS, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: We are those wandering souls that never rest Subject(s): Science EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM: THE STABILITY OF SCIENCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms Last Line: When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these? Subject(s): Physicians; Science; Doctors; Scientists EYEBALL TO EYEBALL, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Not to discover, but to station themselves behind shuttered windows Subject(s): Science Fiction EYES DREAMING OF MOSCOW, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Thru unfocused eyes, %a cocktail lounge filled Subject(s): Science Fiction FACTORY WHISTLES, by ALEXEY GASTEV Poem Source First Line: When the morning whistles blow in the factory districts Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Science FAITH, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the seal of science / emblazoned Subject(s): Creation; Faith; Science; Belief; Creed; Scientists FAITH, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the seal of science %emblazoned Last Line: As I've always done before Subject(s): Creation; Faith; Science FAITH AND SCIENCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Faith has no quarrel with science: she foreknows Last Line: Through perfect law seeks perfect beauty's goal. Subject(s): Faith; Religion & Science; Belief; Creed FALL OF THE CITY, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I forget why I came here. The city is so large, so noisy Subject(s): Science Fiction FATE OF POLYPHEMUS, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: Once infected, the seminal fact Subject(s): Science Fiction FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES REVEALS THE MARVELS OF SCIENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This was one of the scientific marvels Last Line: Myself, I cannot endure loud noises Subject(s): Devil; Science FERI DEAD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, who must grow old and staid Subject(s): Science FIGHT IN THE CAVE OF THE MOON BUTCHERS, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Pteradons glide my room Subject(s): Science Fiction FIREMAN, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His foe is fire, fire, fire! Subject(s): Science FISSIONARY DREAMS, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: Once I made a nocturnal breakthrough Subject(s): Science Fiction FLYING HOME, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: At the moment of lift-off out of the window Subject(s): Science Fiction FOR MUSIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singer, canst thou summon up Last Line: So long ago? -- then sing! Subject(s): Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Spring; Scientists FOR THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL SANITARY ASSOCIAITON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes the healing art divine? Last Line: The shield is nobler than the spear! Subject(s): Disease; Science; Scientists FORMATION, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Below they watch us winging mile on mile Subject(s): Science FRACTAL PATTERN, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: The crystalline structures step, the snowflake processes imitate, Last Line: Self-cloning-this white noise. Self-similar-an ordered poise. Subject(s): Science Fiction FRACTAL SERANADES, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: Unhinge the petals of your numbers Subject(s): Science Fiction FREEDOM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I wished I might rehearse / freedom's paean in my verse Last Line: Right thou feelest, rush to do.' Subject(s): Freedom; Science; Liberty; Scientists FRONTIERS, by MARY F. WICKHAM PORCHER Poem Source First Line: Give me the spirit to live on life's Subject(s): Science FULFILLMENT, by VIOLA ROSEBORO Poem Source First Line: One man hath set his stamp upon the town Subject(s): Science GIFT OF FLIGHT, by UNKNOWN+14 Poem Source First Line: From the dawn of history onward Subject(s): Science GIRL IN THE LABORATORY THINKS OF HER GRANDMOTHER, by JANE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Microscopes and jars surround me on all sides Subject(s): Science GLOBULE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be transparent, to contain the world Subject(s): Science; Scientists GLOBULE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be transparent, to contain the world Last Line: Textured fleck afloat in a wet world Subject(s): Science GODS (1), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought of the infinite- the all! Subject(s): Science GOOD WILL, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A future worthy of the dead Subject(s): Science GRAND BUVEUR VIII, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The sealed book of his heart Subject(s): Science Fiction GREAT COMPLAINT AGAINST MY OBSCURITY III, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where we come from, blossoms all over the clocks flare and Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction GREAT PHYSICIAN THE DOCTOR- PASTEUR, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: The hero of the world has ever been Subject(s): Science GWENDOLYN MACEWAN & VONDA MCINTYRE, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Listen this %shadow on black Subject(s): Science Fiction HAPPINESS, by FREDERICK POLLACK Poem Source First Line: The wall was %ugly. Colors Last Line: It was summer Subject(s): Science Fiction HAWK, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source First Line: A hawk %random branched %scans Subject(s): Science Fiction HE WHO SEES THE INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science HEARTACHER AND THE WAREHOUSEMAN, by DAVID R. BUNCH Poem Source First Line: It was high on old re-do row, that big moderan warehousing Subject(s): Science Fiction HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Now listen, evolutionists Last Line: Or of the missing link. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors HISTORY OF THE DETECTION OF DEATH: 1. THE ARGUMENT, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Medicine has wondered at the numb Last Line: Lips, lungs, put on death's sepulcher disguise Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Death; Medicine; Science HISTORY OF THE DETECTION OF DEATH: 2. THE HISTORY, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: They tied with twine the fingers of the lost Last Line: Irradiates the living in their bed Subject(s): Death; Science HISTORY OF THE DREAM, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source First Line: Silhouettes of silver spikes jut into the ether Subject(s): Science Fiction HOLO-CAUSTIC, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Left hemisphere %'it was visible by day %like venus' Subject(s): Science Fiction HORSE AND THE APHID, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: An insect resembles horses, with jalousies Subject(s): Science Fiction HOW STEP BY STEP WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the sixteenth century nicholas copernicus Last Line: And that's hard. That's hard Subject(s): Change; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Earth; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Science HOW?, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source Last Line: Chilling %the %sky? Subject(s): Science HUMAN MAP, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: You will be happy to know someone has asked our cells to tell Last Line: Our bodies' code will crack. They will have their map Subject(s): Blood; Dna; Ethnic Identity; Science I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE SPEED OF C, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human, have you heard? Last Line: Would like to exempt itself from the laws of gravity. Subject(s): Science; Scientists I HAVE KNOWN LAUGHTER AND THE MIST OF SONG, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Source Subject(s): Science I SAW OLD WIZENED WISDOM, by RONALD W. POVEY Poem Source Subject(s): Science IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE POETIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science IF THE FOOLISH CALL THEM 'FLOWERS', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "at that grand ""right hand""!" Subject(s): Nature; Science ILLUSIONS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flow, flow the waves hated Last Line: And to endurance. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'illusions' Subject(s): Science; Scientists IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back above the world Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Science IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: The little world of olden days is gone Last Line: Who hides no more behind dumb seraphim. Subject(s): Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists IN AN ANATOMY LABORATORY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Over our bench in the dissecting-room Last Line: "alive or dead." Subject(s): Beauty; Corpses; Death; Science; Cadavers; Dead, The; Scientists IN HOSPITAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I might lie like this, without the pain Last Line: And all that lake a dewdrop on a rose. Subject(s): Hospitals; Science; Scientists IN THE STUDIO, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The grey sculptor in his dusty studio Subject(s): Science Fiction IN THE VALLEY OF THE PHARAOH OF THE SHADOW, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source First Line: As in a ruin of sleep or water the sand rises Subject(s): Science Fiction INCENSE SALESMAN, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source First Line: This rose wafted here Subject(s): Science Fiction INTERSTELLAR TRACT, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: I will teach you my earth people Subject(s): Science Fiction INVOCATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists IRON HEAVEN, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Today I saw a place no one has seen Last Line: Of the earth %and feel its wings of weakness Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life JAMES NEWTON/DOUGLAS EWART, by GERALD MAJER Poem Source First Line: Seven thousand veils Last Line: Stalks umbrals %flute sack Subject(s): Science JOHN NEWLOVE & URSULA K. LE GUIN, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Meadow larks %the tree hates no one Subject(s): Science Fiction KEBRA NAGAST, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Solomon gave unto the queen of sheba' Subject(s): Science KNOWLEDGE AND POER ARE RECIPROCAL, FR. NOVUM ORGANUM, by FRANCIS BACON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron Subject(s): Science KNOWLEDGE OF LOSS, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: The man at the center Subject(s): Science Fiction LABOUR AND LOVE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour and love! There are no other laws Last Line: Submerged beneath the inexorable wave. Subject(s): Science; Scientists LAMENT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and death, the dark eagles Last Line: The silent face of the night Subject(s): Science Fiction; World War I LAW THE LAWYERS KNOW ABOUT, by H. D. C. PEPLAR Poem Source Subject(s): Science LEONARD COHEN & THOMAS M. DISCH, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: A clever corpse is catching Subject(s): Science Fiction LIMITS, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: Still the universal shrapnel hurtles Subject(s): Science Fiction LIQUID AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress science, strong and fair Last Line: Grace religion's atmosphere! Subject(s): Science; Scientists LITERARY, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: A fellow scribbler shows me his last poem Subject(s): Science Fiction LITTLE BLACK MAN RAN THROUGH THE TOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science LITTLE PRAYER; FOR THE MAN IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never hear %the growling diapason of a plane Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Science LITTLEWIT AND LOFTUS, by PAMELIA VINING YULE Poem Text First Line: John littlewit, friends, was a credulous man Last Line: And I'm wise although knowing no more! Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Good; Humility; Men; Science; Wisdom; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Scientists LOOKING BACK AT APOLLO, by STEVE RASNIC TEM Poem Source First Line: That first step: %rising on belief, virtuosity Subject(s): Science Fiction LOOKING BACKWARD, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: At dusk when the life-sippers drink Subject(s): Science Fiction LORD OF THE CITY, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the summer, come up from the south! Subject(s): Science MAGICIAN TIME, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science MAGNET, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: This small %flat horseshoe Last Line: Invisible messages %from the sun Subject(s): Science MALINALCO, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: When alberto and the poets came up here Subject(s): Science Fiction MANHATTAN, SELS., by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said one day that I would leave the town Subject(s): Science MARGARET AVISON & BRIAN ALDISS, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Winter descending always Subject(s): Science Fiction MAXIMUM APERTURE, by ELIZABETH POWELL Poem Source First Line: He said the setting was for maximum aperture Last Line: Hoping his great camera could point out some new information %that might prove helpful in the end Subject(s): Death; Science; Sickness MEASURE OF LIGHT, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: Ether drift enigma %absolute motion Subject(s): Science Fiction MEDITATIONS FOR A SAVAGE CHILD, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their own way, by their own lights Last Line: Weep for the scientists %why Subject(s): Children; Science MESSAGE OF ONAN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: In the galapagos is a sea turtle who falls in love with a rock. Early in Last Line: As pubescent maidens is the message of onan, ironically named Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Science METAMORPHOSIS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When water turns ice does it remember Subject(s): Middle West; Science; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Scientists METAMORPHOSIS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When water turns ice does it remember Last Line: When ice turns back into water does it remember it was ice? Subject(s): Middle West; Science MIDNIGHT SALTS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These two nerves that don't touch electric arc Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction MNEMOSYNE'S ENTRENCHMENT, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: It was a natural defense they had Subject(s): Science Fiction MODERNISM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: What is this modern cult of man Last Line: Conceived in love for sinful man? Subject(s): Evolution; Faith; Science; Belief; Creed; Scientists MOMENTS OF VISION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That mirror / which makes of men a transparency Last Line: Glassing it - where? Subject(s): Mirrors; Science; Scientists MONAD FOR JACQUES MONOD, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: You'd have thought after darwin Subject(s): Science Fiction MOON, by YVES TROENDLE Poem Source First Line: When she was a girl, coming home across a field, an owl follwed her Subject(s): Science Fiction MY MOTHER AND THE WHEEL OF FIRE, by AL ZOLYNAS Poem Source First Line: If coaxed, my mother will tell the story Subject(s): Science Fiction MY SWORD IS QUICK, MY ARM IS STRONG TO SMITE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science NAKED SEA BUTTERFLIES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like you, I don't know what they are Last Line: Poetic dazzle of their name Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Science NARCISSE AND THE BLACK HOLE, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Having fallen to within 1.5 (2gm%c2) Last Line: Of that dark mirror. Variant Title(s): Black Holes & Hologramarye: Narcisse And The Black Hol Subject(s): Science Fiction NATURE MORE THAN SCIENCE, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thousand thousand lays Last Line: And sleepily wore on the stilly summer day. Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Nature; Science; Scientists NEW ICARUS, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the brain of a man, and the wings of Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Science NEW OLYMPIANS, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: Who shall chant for them a worthy paean Subject(s): Science NEW PHYSICIAN, by STEPHEN CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: If I, who only sing, in other ways Subject(s): Science NEWTON, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was but a platform for thy power Subject(s): Science NIGHT FLYING, by FREDERICK VICTOR BRANFORD Poem Source First Line: Aloft on footless levels of the night Subject(s): Science NO LONGER THE STARS, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: In nights of fierce delusion Last Line: A curious ear pressed %upon the stars' sure static Subject(s): Science Fiction NOCTURNE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight and falling dew; a little bell Subject(s): Science NONSENSE COUPLETS: 23, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI Poem Source First Line: In the periodic table %certain items are unstable Last Line: As you would a dog with rabies Subject(s): Science NOVUM ORGANUM, SELS., by FRANCIS BACON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron Subject(s): Science NUCLEAR WINTER, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: Like the microwave backflash Subject(s): Science Fiction NUX POSTCOENATICA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting with my microscope, upon my parlor rug Last Line: But will keep dropping in again to see the dear old crater. Subject(s): Science; Scientists OBADIAH'S GIFT, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Helen knew the future, he was certain, could provide a guiding Last Line: Was real and he must use it Subject(s): Genetics; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek; Physics; Science OCEAN LINER, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went down to the sea in ships Subject(s): Science ODE ON SCIENCE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, heavenly born! In deepest dells Subject(s): Science ODE TO MUSIC, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of the world! %spirit of slumbrous Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Science OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: BASIC TRAJECTORY, by GIAN LOMBARDO Poem Source First Line: Percussive, the coughs, three in a row, quick, very quick. To the unattuned... Last Line: From this trespass, the order to expire, and which to address: throw the discourse, or %catch the cu Subject(s): Science OF TIME AND THE SIDEREAL SHORE, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: Time and again %I have known the moment Last Line: Contain the night %and all of space beyond Subject(s): Science Fiction OMNISCIENT SCIENCE, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: O you, who look up to the stars Last Line: How is it weighed within what scales? Subject(s): Planets; Science; Universe; Scientists ON A PIECE OF UNWROUGHT PIPECLAY, by JOHN FREDERICK BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rude mass of earth, from which with moiled hands Last Line: That threats my eyeballs with extinction dire! Subject(s): Fire; Genius; Science; Scientists ON DUTY, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Attending the telephone Subject(s): Science Fiction ON THE GROWTH OF HAIR IN MIDDLE AGE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: No poem has yet been written Last Line: These wretched scenes of everyday life Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Hair; Science ON THE SECULARISTS' NOTION OF MAKING CHURCHES INTO MUSEUMS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What noble work our seculars can do! Last Line: When pack'd and pinn'd to overlay the cross! Subject(s): Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists OPTIMISM UNVEILED, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For: %mundane tea-parties %matchbox-makers Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction ORIGIN OF LIFE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning?- slowly grope we back Subject(s): Science OUTWARD BOUND, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As sailors loitering in a luscious isle Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Science OWLEATERS, by VANCE AANDAHL Poem Source First Line: Beetle-haired idiot boy Subject(s): Science Fiction PAINTER IN THE LION CAGE, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: On the ground are my sketches of the contours Last Line: Yet never will be saved from the majestic brute %I drew myself Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life PALMISTRY, PHRENOLOGY, MESMERISM, by DANIEL J. QUICK Poem Source First Line: Frugal interpretation: the unhinged thumb Last Line: Ignore the woodduck's trembling %cozen us a knot Subject(s): Science PASTEUR'S GRAVE, by ALFRED HAYES Poem Source First Line: No cypress-shadowed churchyard, nor in gloom Subject(s): Science PERFECT TRAVELLER, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: There were times in the long journey Subject(s): Science Fiction PESSIMIST, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Pessimism; Science PHYSICIAN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She comes when I am grieving and doth say Subject(s): Science PILGRIMS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An uphill path, sun-gleams between the ... Subject(s): Science PLANS, THE PLANS, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: Inertia, grey duration %uncertain skies at morning Subject(s): Science Fiction PLEA FOR THE OLD MUSIC, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Play me some old gavotte Subject(s): Science PLEA TO SILENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O science reaching backward through the distance Last Line: Leave christ, I pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Gethsemane; God; Jesus Christ; Science; Scientists POEM, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And what will ever replace it Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction POEM ROCKET, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science; Religion; Scientists; Theology POEM UNLIMITED, by NANOS VALAORITIS Poem Source First Line: The foreleg of a bowl of soup hits my jaw Subject(s): Science Fiction POET AND SCIENTIST, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Sunlit day and starlit night Last Line: But never care to measure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Light; Poetry & Poets; Science; Sun; Scientists POET DONATES HER BODY TO SCIENCE, by CHRISTINA DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Come in, this skin is for you Last Line: Door to oblivion. Let the dark in- %divisible out Subject(s): Bodies; Science POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strong and striking personality Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Science POLITICS AS USUAL, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: Advances, technological, %alter everything Last Line: Beyond our dreams. Except in politics. %except in compassion Subject(s): Politics; Science POLLYWOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: "they'll make monkeys out of man." Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Science; Wilderness; Scientists POLY, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: Father light stands naked on the roof Subject(s): Science Fiction PONDERING, by JO ANNE TRINKLE Poem Source First Line: Man split the atom Last Line: Has it served any good purpose? Subject(s): God; Science PORTRAIT OF GALILEO AS A YOUNG MAN, by GEORGE KEITHLEY Poem Source First Line: In the pit of his being sits an obese belligerent boy Last Line: One night - soon - he will train them on the skies Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Science PORTRAIT WITHOUT POSE, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Was that the dream, the birds clubbing up Subject(s): Science Fiction POST-HISTORIC PASTORALE, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: The town of mandala is watched over Subject(s): Science Fiction POTTER'S WHEEL, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: This whirling world is a potter's wheel Subject(s): Science POWER, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The root which is called a drug Subject(s): Science Fiction POWER-PLANT, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The invisible wheels go softly round and ... Subject(s): Science PRAYER IS THE STUDY OF ART, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prayer; Science PRECISE BY SEA, TRANSPOSED, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction PROCESS, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Every sound-wave travelling to your ear Subject(s): Science Fiction PROFESSOR RAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: What is man that thou art mindful Last Line: Death remains the wage for sin. Subject(s): Knowledge; Ravens; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Scientists; Educators; Professors PSI - REC / FLYING WHITE, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Sojourner among the nephele exultations of cloud Subject(s): Science Fiction QUICK AIR, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The electrical fire is easily obtained Subject(s): Science Fiction RADIO, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O not a word and not a thought Subject(s): Science RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites Last Line: Language forbidden, the world learned bacon's Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy And Philosophers; Science REACTIONARY ESSAY ON APPLIED SCIENCE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot love the brothers wright, Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Science; Scientists REASON, OR THE RATION OF ALL WE HAVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science RECOMPENSE, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw two sowers in life's field at morn Subject(s): Science REPORT OF THE MEETING, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scientists removed their coats and hats Last Line: And did not venture on the streets for days Subject(s): Science; Immortaliy; Scientists REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth Last Line: I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War REPRIEVE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn shudders white again, and homeward Subject(s): Science RICHARD ANDSOFORTH, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Let me, kleptomander, while still it's night Subject(s): Science Fiction ROCKS, by FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE Poem Source First Line: Big rocks into pebbles Last Line: I really hold a million million rocks here in my hand Subject(s): Science ROGER BACON, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had strange dreams Last Line: Thrust his hand in it and believed Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Philosophy And Philosophers; Science S-51, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Source First Line: Home! We welcome you home Subject(s): Science SAM PERRY (A GENIUS UNRECORDED), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by a grave and white grave-stone Last Line: "and tell what you do, and where you are!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Science; Youth; Graveyards; Dead, The; Scientists SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ! Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise SCIENCE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of a thousand strings, awake Last Line: And live beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Nature; Railroads; Science; Dead, The; Railways; Trains; Scientists SCIENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million globes awhirl in unlit space Last Line: At last, the meaning of the master-mind. Subject(s): Faith; God; Science; Space & Space Travel; Truth; Vision; Belief; Creed; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension SCIENCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, introverted man, having crossed Subject(s): Science; Scientists SCIENCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, introverted man, having crossed Last Line: A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely too much? Subject(s): Science SCIENCE, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Science explains nothing Last Line: Only it uses the wrong words Subject(s): Science; Scientists SCIENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Her temple crowns the common haunts Last Line: And glorifies our mortal dream. Subject(s): Nature; Science; Truth; Youth; Scientists SCIENCE AND NESCIENCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that notwithstanding all he knows Last Line: Whose meaning the gods only can unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ignorance; Science; Dullness; Stupdity; Scientists SCIENCE IS KNOWLEDGE, by DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science SCIENCE LESSONS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Our galaxy is a spiral %of rotating arms Last Line: Into the heart's %inevitable divorce Subject(s): Physics; Science; Travel; Universe SCIENCE, HELP!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Science, science, quickly speed! Last Line: Science, science, quickly come! Subject(s): Science; Scientists SCIENTIFIC PROOF, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Text First Line: If we square a lump of pemmican Last Line: And what's the price of coal. Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Nonsense; Science; Scientists SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After the first a-bomb test,' Last Line: After a shit and a coffee break Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bombs; Missiles; Nuclear Accidents; Science SCIENTIST, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: He was a refugee from a continent Last Line: Or last %to let angels die Subject(s): Politics; Refugees; Science SCIENTIST, by GRACE REINI Poem Text First Line: With finite certainty I penetrate Last Line: Can only anwer that I do not know. Subject(s): Science; Scientists SEARCHLIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Searching amid the high Subject(s): Science SEED, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: How does it know Last Line: Of the things it knows? Subject(s): Science SELECTION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In each land the sun doth visit Subject(s): Science SERVICE STARS, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: All through the troubled night the service Subject(s): Science SEVEN DAY DIARY (FIRST LINE FROM ALAN DUGAN), by DAVID CHIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, I got up and went to work %cleared the lab bench Last Line: And then sunday was completely gone Subject(s): Diaries; Science SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 6. THE SPECTROSCOPE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honor to that keen promethean soul Last Line: With stars in their divine infinitude. Subject(s): Science; Spectroscopes; Universe; Scientists SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 7. THE MICROPHONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The small enlarged, the distant nearer brought Last Line: "below the surface -- ere we cry, ""too late!" Subject(s): Microphones; Science; Scientists SIGHT AND INSIGHT, by UNKNOWN+116 Poem Source First Line: Wisdom is easily seen by them that love her Subject(s): Science SIMPLY HUGE, by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: Though they remain in the uterus Last Line: A syringe stands stud in the dells Subject(s): Birth; Calves; Explorers; Reproduction; Science SIX FEATHERS OF ALERON, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: Grimes of exposure layered and lost in dry skin Subject(s): Science Fiction SNOWFLAKES, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime this winter if you go Last Line: In billions, billions, no mistake? Subject(s): Science SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singing heart, think not of aught save song Last Line: And here or there, sometime, somewhere, 'twill reach the grain. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Scientists SONG OF THE ALL, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Source First Line: Brother, my brother! Whoever you are Subject(s): Science SONG OF THE NEW GODS, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Source First Line: The gods of vast valhalla Subject(s): Science SONGS OF EDUCATION: HYGIENE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When science taught mankind to breathe Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Science SONNET: 10, by THOMAS GORDON HAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Genius and poetry should still advance Subject(s): Science SONNET: 32, by THOMAS GORDON HAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand volumes of poetic lore Subject(s): Science SONNET: SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We went a-begging for a nobler creed Last Line: "perennial loaves, and flagons never dry." Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists SOOTHED BY SCIENCE, by PHILIP R. ST. CLAIR Poem Source First Line: Bereceuse: I am listening to a female voice on the car radio and I am at Last Line: Crying, 'ah, the prefaces! The prefaces!' Subject(s): Science SOUL OF SWANS, by MARY SIEGRIST Poem Source First Line: And I looked long and I could not descry Subject(s): Science SPACE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a tiny electron Last Line: Though just what it is I don't know. Subject(s): Science; Scientists STAIRWAY TO HADES, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I can't quite remember the re-creation of the world Subject(s): Science Fiction STAR-DUST (TO A DEAD AVIATOR), by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: No more his motor shall climb up the morning Last Line: Star-dust, and silence, and the infinite skies. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Science; Scientists STARS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are too many to count Subject(s): Science; Scientists STARS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are too many to count Last Line: Stars are so far away they never speak when spoken to Subject(s): Science STARS AND THE SOUL (TO CHARLES A. YOUNG, ASTRONOMER), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two things,' the wise man said, 'fill me with awe Last Line: And inward light that helps us all to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Knowledge; Science; Young, Charles Augustus (1834-1908); Scientists STARS ARE DOWN, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source Subject(s): Science Fiction STAYING BEHIND, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness comes up to the windows Subject(s): Science Fiction STAYING HOME, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: At the moment the darkness comes up to the windows Subject(s): Science Fiction STILL O'ER THE EARTH HASTES OPPORTUNITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science SUNDAY MORNING, by WAYNE MORELAND Poem Source First Line: It is whatever day, whatever time it is Last Line: How I love you for making things in the %morning Subject(s): Science SUNSET IN THE CITY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the town a monstrous wheel is turning Subject(s): Science SWEET RADIUM, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: We are the stillborn child of marie Subject(s): Science Fiction TAILOR CALLED SORROW, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday in drizzling rain Last Line: Hang, %and mingled white basting thread %in their hair Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life TANK, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: It rolls into the square as if it came to drink Subject(s): Tanks (military Science) TANKS, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: Co ye to? %crossing the frontier Last Line: Whistles at the screen Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Tanks (military Science) TAURONOMACHIA, OR FIGHT BETWEEN TAURUS AND ONOS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Therefore I beg, oh darling muse Last Line: This once: and hang me if I write again Subject(s): Fights; Science TELEGRAPH, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: North-south-east-west-man owns one kindred Subject(s): Science TELEGRAPH, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But science also is man's destiny Subject(s): Science TELEGRAPH POLES, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: To the thunder drums Subject(s): Science TELEPHONE, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice, beloved, on the living wire Subject(s): Science; Telephones TELEPHONE; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight in million-voiced london I Last Line: Peoples all heaven, although be but one Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Science TEN THOUSAND TO ONE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phoenicians guarded a recipe that required Last Line: Hanging, at the tip. Subject(s): Nature; Science; Scientists TESTING STEEL AND GLASS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FUTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though gone the ancient gear of war Last Line: Our bugles sound a charge. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Science; War; Scientists THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#54), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man feels nausea, he thinks he is in the balkans Last Line: Shall call the preposthumous to their task Subject(s): Death; Science THE CITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shining city, one Last Line: With happy wayfaring. Subject(s): Cities; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What domination of what darkness dies this Last Line: By the thronged gods, tall, golden-coloured, joyful, young. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; God; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CONFIDENT SCIENTIST, by ALEXIS Poem Text First Line: Discovery attends on every quest Last Line: This common home to which we're born, defy them? Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE DREAM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Last Line: To the foul beast of war that bludgeons life. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF AGASSIZ; MAY 28, 1857, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was fifty years ago Last Line: "and my boy does not return!" Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Science; Scientists THE MODERN TIPPLING PHILOSOPHERS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father hodge had his pipe and his dram Last Line: If I blame, be assured I am tipsy. Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Drinks & Drinking; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Wine; Scientists THE OLIVE BRANCH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dove flew with an olive branch Last Line: And every ship an olive branch. Subject(s): Science; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Scientists; Ocean THE PATIENT SCIENTISTS, by BERTHA GERNEAUX WOODS Poem Text First Line: How they have learned the secrets of the ether! Last Line: "and ""it is good,"" he murmurs once again." Subject(s): Religion And Science THE POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strong and striking personality Last Line: To know each other's value more Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the isle of penikese Last Line: From the master's silent prayer. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Penikese Island, Massachusetts; Science; Scientists THE PROPHETS REALLY PROPHESY AS MYSTICS THE COMMENTATORS MERELY BY STATISTICS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what unbroken spirit naive science Last Line: It seems bad to steer off by force Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America THE SCIENCES SING A LULLABY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Physics says: go to sleep. Of course Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE SCIENTIST, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what fidelity and yearning care Last Line: He asks no grace except the grace to see. Subject(s): Knowledge; Science; Scientists THE SHIP STARTING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! The unbounded sea! Last Line: They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam. Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE TREE FALLING IN A VACANT FOREST, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The window open. Hearing Last Line: Each one hearing the same one Subject(s): Trees; Science THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp? Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists THE WARNING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen mighty men ballooning high Last Line: They scorn the brain's wild search for virtuous light. Subject(s): Science; Scientists THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception Last Line: Is Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists THOUGHTS ON CLONING, by GRAAL BRAUN Poem Source First Line: Someday the labs will make routine Last Line: We'll get jim bakker on the phone %to fabricate its soul Subject(s): Science THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 3; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand again on the familiar shore Last Line: Why art thou silent? Why shouldst thou be dead? Variant Title(s): Agassiz Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Science; Scientists THREE SKIES, by CLAUDIA LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Three skies %above our world Last Line: To what fourth sky, %on what flight? Subject(s): Science THRESHOLD TO A FAR DISTANCE, by EDWARD DELEHANT MYCUE Poem Source First Line: Where the wind begins Subject(s): Science Fiction TIME FLIGHT, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: His skin feels %like the sail of a soaring kite Subject(s): Science Fiction TIME'S JUSTICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! We live in days of shame Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Science TITANS, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Don't suppose that the weightless phantom Last Line: Yet some blazing hand will remake the chaos %of earth, people, and death Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life TO A DEAD BIRD, by ROBERT JAMES KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: Sweet bird, in life thy tuneful voice Last Line: Robert james kellogg. Subject(s): Death; Procrastination; Science; Dead, The; Scientists TO A LOGICIAN, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold man, in whom no animating ray Subject(s): Science TO IRELAND, by RAY BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: I dare not go-that isle has ghosts Last Line: And kills my soul, my heart, and me Variant Title(s): To Ireland, No Mor Subject(s): Science Fiction TO JOSEPH LEIDY, by ERWIN F. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The wisest man could ask no more of fate Subject(s): Science TO LOOK AT ANY THING, by JOHN MOFFITT Poem Source Last Line: And touch the very peace %they issue from Subject(s): Environment; Science TO MADAME CURIE, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: How great her travail, who went forth to find Subject(s): Science TO MR. WILLIAM WATSON WHO FLOUTED SCIENCE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ungrateful poet! Canst thou steep thy song Subject(s): Science TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR. CHARLETON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The longest tyranny that ever swayed Last Line: But, he restor'd, 't is now become a throne. Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Friend, Dr. Charleton, On His Learned And Useful Works Subject(s): Archeology; Boyle, Robert (1627-1691); Harvey, William (1578-1657); Science; Stonehenge; Scientists TO NOEL DAVIS, by MARCIA LEWIS LEACH Poem Source First Line: Like some cathedral spire that cleaves Subject(s): Science TO SCIENCE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Let others in false pleasure's court be found Last Line: And be the gift of learning ever mine. Subject(s): Knowledge; Science; Scientists TO SIR RODERICK MURCHISON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What see I through the mist of years? A friend Last Line: With shouts that shake the holly-branch above. Subject(s): Murchison, Sir Roderick (1792-1871); Science; Scientists TO THE COLONY, by MARK DAVID RICH Poem Source First Line: Ship-pod had burst Subject(s): Science Fiction TO THE SPECTROSCOPE, by W. F. HOYT Poem Text First Line: One day untiring science, treading slow Last Line: But thou art greatest of these spirits three. Subject(s): Science; Scientists TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the hero of the arctic dare Subject(s): Science TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to you o moon Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret. Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses TRANSFUSION, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anxious, they waited in the anteroom Subject(s): Science TRANSITION, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In white gowns of winter Last Line: Will soon gallop in all directions Subject(s): Science Fiction TRANSITION, by STEPHEN CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: One morn I rose and found that, overnight Subject(s): Science TRANSPARENT KINGDOM, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: The point has no direction Subject(s): Science Fiction TRILBY, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: Now opens the muscle of the heart Subject(s): Science Fiction TWO WALKERS ACROSS THE TIME FLATS, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: How the trees %stand here, like statements of loss Subject(s): Science Fiction UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Unseen with %an unaided eye Last Line: A microscope %can do Subject(s): Science UPPER AIR, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High, pale, imperial places of slow cloud Last Line: That will not mix with our mortality. Subject(s): Science; Scientists V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: V.B. Wiggelsworth wakes at noon Subject(s): Harvard University; Science; Scientists V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: V.B. Wiggelsworth wakes at noon Last Line: Instructs the jellyfish to spawn, %and, by one o'clock, is gone Subject(s): Harvard University; Science VENTRILOQUISM, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: All the panes of glass are thrumming Subject(s): Science Fiction; Ventriloquists VIBES, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In front of slaves' eyes in the markets Subject(s): Science Fiction VISION OF ARMAGEDDON, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: High o'er the din of these war-shocked days Subject(s): Science VISION OF HIROSHIMA, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: He hurled upon the triple city a single Subject(s): Science Fiction VISIT, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: He stood, roughly, in the doorway, eating an apple Subject(s): Science Fiction VOICE OF THE CITY, by STEPHEN CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: Comes a tone, that sounds alone Subject(s): Science VOTIVE TABLETS: SCIENCE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To some she is the goddess great, to some the milch-cow of the field Last Line: Their care is but to calculate — what butter she will yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Science; Scientists WANDERINGS OF BEWILDERED SOUL IN MAZES OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since god is good and god is all Last Line: It can't be wrong, as there's no sin! Subject(s): Christian Science WANTED: LOOKING FOR OWL ROOSTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For pellets for science project Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Owls; Science WAVE - PARTICLE PARADOX, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Driving through the heart of freezing suns Subject(s): Science Fiction WHAT ARE YOU, WIND?, by MARY O'NEILL Poem Source Last Line: And no color at all? Subject(s): Science WHAT IS SCIENCE?, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source Last Line: When %and %why Subject(s): Science WHAT SCIENCE SAYS TO TRUTH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As is the mainland to the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Science WHAT SUNS? WHAT MOONS?, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Over the million cells that make you you Subject(s): Science WHEN A BEE FROM ONE HIVE ENTERS ANOTHER, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source Subject(s): Science Fiction WHEN SILVER PLUMS FALL, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: In the chambered nautilus Last Line: And rise against the vacuum Subject(s): Science Fiction WHERE ARE THE FLIERS?, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: Where are you, fliers, bold venturers on Subject(s): Science WHITE HYPNOSIS OF OVERLAPPING WAVES, BOILING SURF, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Science Fiction WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sarcastic science she would like to know Last Line: I have a theory, but it hardly does Subject(s): Science; Scientists WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sarcastic science she would like to know Last Line: I have a theory, but it hardly does Subject(s): Science WILHELM MEISTER AND MARIANA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If first love be, as I hear it generally asserted, the most Subject(s): Love; Science WING HARBOR, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Motors, like men, will stop for little things Subject(s): Science WINGED VICTORY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome home to us, you that have given wings Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Science WONDERING WHAT HEAVEN SOUNDS LIKE AFTER DEATH, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source Subject(s): Science Fiction WORDS, PERHAPS, FOR MUSIC, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Bring midnight in curses Subject(s): Science Fiction WORLD IS EVERYTHING THAT IS THE CASE, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: The favored victim the sweetings the boundary Subject(s): Science Fiction YELLOW COLD, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're going clouding with the eskimos Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. 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