Poems about mathematical (18 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Fourth Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_: SEVERINO. MINUTOLO. SEV. You will see the origin of the nine blind men, who state ninereasons and special causes of their blindness, and yet they all agree inone general reason and one common enthusiasm. MIN. Begin with the first! … Continue reading
Parson Turell’s Legacy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OR, THE PRESIDENT’S OLD ARM-CHAIR A MATHEMATICAL STORY FACTS respecting an old arm-chair.At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there.Seems but little the worse for wear.That ‘s remarkable when I sayIt was old in President Holyoke’s day.(One of his boys, … Continue reading
Tulips (Padraic Colum Poems)
An age being mathematical, these flowersOf linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prizedBy men with wakened, speculative minds,And when with mathematics they exploredThe Macrocosm, and came at last toThe Vital Spirit of the World, and named itInvisible Pure Fire, or, … Continue reading
Honourable Employment (John Webster Poems)
O my lord, lie not idle:The chiefest action for a man of great spiritIs never to be out of action. We should thinkThe soul was never put into the body,Which has so many rare and curious piecesOf mathematical motion, to … Continue reading
Dominus Vineae; Spiritus Agricola (Anna Hempstead Branch Poems)
Once more among our archangelic hillsThe streets of this old, grave, and gracious townThrob with renewing vigor as when SpringRushes upon the forest and through it spillsHer ancient rapture. Now the campus thrillsWith feet that run and voices that sing.It … Continue reading
A Modern Apostle III (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAN had preached his sermon–grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt Less damnable than faith unorthodox; Henceforth the young apostle stood without Their iron gates, made fast with bars and locks, … Continue reading
Last Days Of Alice (Allen Tate Poems)
Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,Declines upon her lost and twilight age;Above in the dozing leaves the grinning catQuivers forever with his abstract rage: Whatever light swayed on the perilous gateForever sways, nor will the arching grass,Caught when the … Continue reading
Farewell To Mathematics (Frederick Victor Branford Poems)
I laboured on the anvil of my brainAnd beat a metal out of pageantry.Figure and form I carry in my trainTo load the scaffolds of Eternity.Where the masters areBuilding star on star;Where, in solemn ritual,The great Dead MathematicalWait and wait … Continue reading
Percival Sharp (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Observe the clasped hands!Are they hands of farewell or greeting,Hands that I helped or hands that helped me?Would it not be well to carve a handWith an inverted thumb, like Elagabalus?And yonder is a broken chain,The weakest-link idea perhaps —But … Continue reading
Tortoise Shell (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the bone. Along the back of the baby tortoise The scales are locked in an arch like a bridge, Scale-lapping, like … Continue reading