James Clerk Maxwell Sense Poems
- 1. Reflex Musings: Reflections From Various Surfaces
In the dense entangled street,
Where the web of Trade is weaving,
Forms unknown in crowds I meet
Much of each and all believing;
... - 2. Song Of The Edinburgh Academician
If ony here has got an ear,
He'd better takâ?? a haud oâ?? me,
Or I'll begin, wiâ?? roarinâ?? din,
To cheer our old Academy.
... - 3. Recollections Of A Dreamland
Rouse ye! torpid daylight-dreamers, cast your carking cares away!
As calm air to troubled water, so my night is to your day;
All the dreary day you labour, groping after common sense,
And your eyes ye will not open on the night's magnificence.
... - 4. To F.w.f.
Farrar, when oâ??er Goodwinâ??s page
Late I found thee poring,
From the hydrostatic Sage
Leaky Memory storing,
... - 5. To The Additional Examiner For 1875
Queen Cram went straying
Where Tait was swaying,
In just hands weighing,
With care immense,
... - 6. Molecular Evolution
At quite uncertain times and places,
The atoms left their heavenly path,
And by fortuitous embraces,
Engendered all that being hath.
... - 7. Numa Pompilius
O well is thee! King Numa,
Within thy secret cave,
Where thy bones are ever moistened
By sad Egeriaâ??s wave;
... - 8. British Association, Notes Of The President's Address
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,
Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness of men;
Till Commerce arose, and at length some men of exceptional power
Supplanted both demons and gods by the atoms, which last to this hour.
... - 9. A Vision Of A Wrangler, Of A University, Of Pedantry, And Of Philosophy
Deep St. Mary's bell had sounded,
And the twelve notes gently rounded
Endless chimneys that surrounded
My abode in Trinity.
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