Nathalocus (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,As the traveller passed on his wearisome way,Sealed by the frost was each ...
I.Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,As the traveller passed on his wearisome way,Sealed by the frost was each ...
Rouse ye! torpid daylight-dreamers, cast your carking cares away!As calm air to troubled water, so my night is to your ...
I. I come from fields of fractured ice, Whose wounds are cured by squeezing, Melting they cool, but in a trice, Get warm again ...
Farrar, when o'er Goodwin's pageLate I found thee poring,From the hydrostatic SageLeaky Memory storing,Or when groaning yesterdayNeedlessly distractedBy some bright ...
O well is thee! King Numa,Within thy secret cave,Where thy bones are ever moistenedBy sad Egeria's wave;None now have power ...
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
I.Now no more the slanting raysWith the mountain summits dally,Now no more in crimson blazeEvening's fleecy cloudless rally,Soon shall Night ...
O academic muse that hast for longCharmed all the world with thy disciples' song,As myrtle bushes must give place to ...
The mounted disk of eboniteHas whirled before, nor whirled in vain;Rowland of Troy, that doughty knight,Convection currents did obtainIn such ...
Oft in the night, from this lone roomI long to fly o'er land and sea,To pierce the dark, dividing gloom,And ...
O had he first been swept away,Through air by wild winds tossed,Or sunk from Heaven's ethereal ray,To Pluto's dreary coast.Who ...
I.Alone on a hillside of heather,I lay with dark thoughts in my mind,In the midst of the beautiful weatherI was ...
I know not what this may betoken,That I feel so wondrous wise;My dream of existence is brokenSince science has opened ...
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