Evolution Poems (23 Poems)
My Library (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the night;Encompassed by thy sheltering walls,‘Mid books whose interest enthralls,Life’s shadow from my spirit falls. Behold! above the wooded heightThe sun-god’s … Continue reading
A Psalm Of Resignation (Joseph Furphy Poems)
In spite of his imposing plea,A freeman whom the truth makes freeIs often fairly up a tree,And marvels why it should be thus.Then reasoning in his tin-pot wayThat honesty can never pay,He loses faith, as well he may;Yet he has … Continue reading
To Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D., The Hero Of A Recent Work Called Paradoxical Philosophy (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
A paradoxical ode, after Shelley. I. My soul is an entangled knot,Upon a liquid vortex wroughtBy Intellect, in the Unseen residing,And thine cloth like a convict sit,With marlinspike untwisting it,Only to find its knottiness abiding;Since all the tools for its … Continue reading
Midnight (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
THERE are sea and sky about me, And yet nothing sense can mark;For a mist fills all the midnight Adding blindness to its dark. There is not the faintest echo From the life of yesterday:Not the vaguest stir foretelling Of a morrow on the … Continue reading
Revolution (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
Ah, yes! You must meet it, and brave it; Too laggardtoo purblind to save it;Who recks of your doubting and fearing Phrasebound “Evolution?” Do you not hear the sea sounding it? Do you not feel the fates founding it?Do you not know it for … Continue reading
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future’s endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, yet progressing,Lead us nobody knows where. Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,In the present what are theywhile there’s always jam-tomorrow,While … Continue reading
Process (Mary Eliza Fullerton Poems)
Time erodes the fundamental.. . . . .Civilization said long ago,“Man is fixt and set,Unchanging now,Amid the fretOf evolution.The tides Fate-ledSurge and retreat,Nor lose, nor get;On his ultimate feetMan’s fixt and set.” Time erodes the fundamental.. . . . .England … Continue reading
A Phenomenal Fauna (Carolyn Wells Poems)
THE REG’LAR LARK The Reg’lar Lark’s a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends his homeward way,And trills a fresh and merry roundelay.And some old, wise philosopher has said:Rise with a lark, and … Continue reading
Erratic Musings (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Alone. For Jack has gone away, To hide his head in proofs and letters;And left me here to spend the day Inside, like many of my betters.Outside the gusts of wind and rain And whirling leaves are something frightful;And, for … Continue reading
The Holy Constitution (C J Dennis Poems)
Read ye here the song as sung By a chief named, briefly, Ung.In the days when arguments were manly axes: “O my people, this my Law Is without defect or flaw,And it governs ways and means and rates and … Continue reading