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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OMNISCIENT SCIENCE, by JOEL T. ROGERS 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 | |||
O YOU, who look up to the stars, And write within your heavy books Upon the age and size of Mars, And how the world is hung by hooks, (Or some invention full as fine) Tell me this riddle if you may: Why, when I have drunk good wine, Does my spirit walk the Milky Way? And you, who form the elements, Mingling water to make fire, You who are so far from sense You have surmounted all desire, Why is it I, who am not seen At conclaves of your mighty skulls, Find in the lips of Leontine More fire than in your crucibles? So you who tutor dusty fools, And measure continents and seas, Weighing the finite molecules Which are but fleas unto the fleas, May answer this without a doubt By some cosmic scheme which never fails: Where go I when my light goes out; How is it weighed within what scales? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REACTIONARY ESSAY ON APPLIED SCIENCE by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM by HILAIRE BELLOC AN AMERICAN SCENE by NORMAN DUBIE WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE by ROBERT FROST DIXIT INSIPIENS by CAROLYN KIZER GLOBULE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER FALLING STAR by JOEL T. ROGERS |
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