Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet — To Science” (Text-05e), Broadway Journal, August 2, 1845, 2:54, col. 2


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[page 54, column 2, bottom:]

Sonnet — To Science.

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why prey'st 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?


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Notes:

The placement of the poem, and the fact that Poe did not sign it, suggests that it was used as filler.

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