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Sonnet--To Science

Edgar Allan Poe·1809–1849
Lines:14Movement:Romanticism
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 realitiesHow should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wanderingTo 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 woodTo seek a shelter in some happier star? Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,The Elfin from the green grass, and from meThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?