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 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1869 - 298 pages
...most just, avenging Heaven 1 POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.* SONNET— TO SCIENCE. SCIENCE ! true daughter of Old Time thou art ! Who...dull realities ? How should he love thee? or how deem tliee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jeweled skies, Albeit... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...most just, avenging Heaven ! POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.* SONNET.— TO SCIENCE. SCIENCE ! true daughter of Old Time thou art ! Who...poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities ? * Private reasons — some of which have reference to the sin of plagiarism, and others to the date... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 196 pages
...fight me ? Thou liest ! thou shalt ! . (Exit.) POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.* SONNET — TO SCIENCE. :iENCE ! true daughter of Old Time thou art ! Who alterest...how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandeiing To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing ? Hast... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...righteous, and most just, avenging Heaven. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.* SONNET — TO SCIENCE. jjCIENCE ! true daughter of Old Time thou art ! Who alterest...how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandeiing To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing ? Hast... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - German literature - 1879 - 452 pages
...— " true daughter of old Time thou art, Who changest all things with thy peering eyes ! Why prey'st thou thus upon the Poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities 1 " and this is a sort of conventional sentiment with all minor poets. Even Schiller, at one period... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...Heaven ! POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH POEMS WRITTEN is YOUTH. SONNET-TO SCIENCE. SCIENCE ! trne danghter of Old Time thou art ! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Wliy preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities ? How should... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 542 pages
...Heaven ! POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.' SONNET— TO SCIENCE. SCIENCE ! true daughter of Old Time thou art 1 Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why...poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities 1 How should he love thee t or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 304 pages
...Heaven to them no hope imparts Who hear not for the beating of their hearts. SONNET— TO SCIENCE. SCIENCE ! true daughter of Old Time thou art ! Who...poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities 1 How should he love thee ? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1888 - 564 pages
...manifest in the following sonnet by a poet who saw only the beginning of the new dispensation : — " Science ! true daughter of old Time thou art, Who...heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities ? How shquld he love thce ? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authors, American - 1899 - 268 pages
...stories; his poetic nature we see struggling against this intellectual exactness in the following sonnet: Science ! True daughter of Old Time thou art ! Who...all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities ? How should he love thee ? or how deem... | |
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