Welcome!

Welcome to the Scientific Stanzas Poetry Project blog! It is our hope that this project will expand your horizons and give the scientific community at the University of Illinois an opportunity to experience poetry. We will be posting science related poems to help scientists relate to poetry. Enjoy and check back often for poetic updates!

As an introduction to science related poetry I present Edgar Allen Poe's "Sonnet-To Science" (1829):

Sonnet-To Science

Edgar Allen Poe

Science! true daughters of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dulled realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou dragged Diana from her car,

And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

-*-Wizard-*-