Molecular Evolution (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they ...
At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they ...
Creator Spirit uncreatedSails on fleet waves far away,Worlds heave, Lives are generated,His Eye spans Eternity.All inspiriting reigns his Countenance,In its ...
Prune thou thy words; the thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng;-- They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose ...
The blazing rays of sunshine, little by little, condense; and the South Wind, with its swirls of dust, returns and ...
WHO INSISTED ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITING A POEM, ONMEETING BY APPOINTMENT WITH HER AND THREEOTHER LADIES AT AN INN ON ...
'TWAS eve; the broadly shining sun Its long, celestial course, had run; The twilight heaven, so soft and blue, Met ...
(From the French of Charles Baudelaire)All nature is a temple where the alivePillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;Man ...
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loricand low-browed ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come ...
In vain, fair Maid, you ask in vain, My pen should try th' advent'rous strain, And following truth's unalter'd law, ...
From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
If you could crowd them into forty lines! Yes; you can do it, once you get a start; All that ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...
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