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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SCIENCE; SONNET, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poet's Biography
First Line: Science! True daughter of old time thou art!
Last Line: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Variant Title(s): Sonnet - To Science;to Science
Subject(s): Hate; Mythology; Social Protest
First Line: Science! True daughter of old time thou art!
Last Line: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Variant Title(s): Sonnet - To Science;to Science
Subject(s): Hate; Mythology; Social Protest
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise?
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Other Poems of Interest...
TWO SONNETS, IN 1972: 2. MAY by DAVID LEHMAN
A SONG FOR MANY MOVEMENTS by AUDRE LORDE
NAT BACON'S BONES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS
VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON
TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA
IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. by HAYDEN CARRUTH
THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH