The Mathematician in Love (William John Macquorn Rankine Poems)
I.A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and ...
I.A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and ...
A raven sat upon a tree, And not a word he spoke, forHis beak contained a piece of Brie. Or, maybe it ...
Daedalus says:Go on sonny but remember that you are walking and not flyingthe wings are just an ornament and you ...
WHEN you drink of what the poets rave about as "sorrer's cup",And yer mouth, in spite of laughin', gits a ...
MY little boy is eight years old,He goes to school each day;He doesn't mind the tasks they set-They seem to ...
This is the midnight of the century,--hark!Through aisle and arch of Godminster have goneTwelve throbs that tolled the zenith of ...
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
3"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee,""Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy!Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" Oh caput ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:That there are drones and workersAnd queens, and nothing but storing honey —(Material things ...
The secret of the stars, — gravitation.The secret of the earth, — layers of rock.The secret of the soil, — ...
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, ...
1 DAREST thou now, O Soul, Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region, Where neither ground is for the ...
The secret of the stars, -- gravitation. The secret of the earth, -- layers of rock. The secret of the ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey ...
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