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By Edgar Allan Poe
via the Poetry Foundation

Science! true daughter 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 dull 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 not 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?

A Note from the Editor
Poe’s sonnet captures the beauty and mystery of the gifts that science continues to reveal, even if steeped in the 19th century’s grandiose and melodramatic language. Poe is also the author of “Eureka,” arguably the ultimate science poem and a foundational prose poem to boot. Poe’s words describe the process of science to alter and inspire, and we feel underneath the flowery phrases something akin to awe, and inevitably, fear. - Guest Editors S.J. Fowler and Rebecca Kamen.



Read and view our guest editors’ collaborative piece reflecting on virology and COVID-19, “Silent Spread.”

Source: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1946)


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