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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SCIENTISTS Matches Found: 109 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ROCKET, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science; Religion; Scientists; Theology 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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