Knowledge poems

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The Lament of Toby, The Learned Pig

© Thomas Hood

Oh, heavy day! oh, day of woe!
To misery a poster,
Why was I ever farrowed, why
Not spitted for a roaster?

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The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto IV

© Richard Savage

Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway,
Still on strange visionary land I stray.
Now scenes crowd thick! now indistinct appear!
Swift glide the months, and turn the varying year!

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Two Kinds of Intelligence

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.

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School Rhymes

© James Clerk Maxwell

O academic muse that hast for long
Charmed all the world with thy disciples’ song,
As myrtle bushes must give place to trees,
Our humbler strains can now no longer please.
Look down for once, inspire me in these lays.
In lofty verse to sing our Rector's praise.

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Vision Of Columbus - Book 4

© Joel Barlow

In one dark age, beneath a single hand,

Thus rose an empire in the savage land.

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An Elegy Upon The Death Of Dr. Donne, Dean Of Paul's

© Thomas Carew

  Here lies a king, that rul'd as he thought fit
  The universal monarchy of wit;
  Here lie two flamens, and both those, the best,
  Apollo's first, at last, the true God's priest.

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The Borough. Letter VI: Professions--Law

© George Crabbe

"TRADES and Professions"--these are themes the Muse,

Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;

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The Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid

© William Butler Yeats

KUSTA BEN LUKA is my name, I write
To Abd Al-Rabban; fellow-roysterer once,
Now the good Caliph's learned Treasurer,
And for no ear but his.

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The Instructiphone

© Carolyn Wells

There was a youthful genius once, a boy of thirteen years,
Named Cyrus Franklin Edison Lavoisier De Squeers.
To study he was not inclined, for fun he had a bent;
But there was just one article he wanted to invent.

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TO Mr. Samuel Brooke

© John Donne

O THOU which to search out the secret parts

  Of the India, or rather Paradise

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Restless Longing

© Hans Vilhelm Kaalund

By each aim to which I strive,

Longing on life's way;

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Human Life

© Samuel Rogers

An hour like this is worth a thousand passed
In pomp or ease - 'Tis present to the last!
Years glide away untold - 'Tis still the same!
As fresh, as fair as on the day it came!

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Pictures On Enamel

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

When Astraled was lying, like to die
Of love's green sickness, all his bed was strown
With buds of crocus and anemone,
For other flowers yet were barely none,

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The Muses Threnodie: Fourth Muse

© Henry Adamson

This time our boat passing too nigh the land,

The whirling stream did make her run on sand;

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A Lament for the Fairies

© Alaric Alexander Watts

O, ye have lost,

Mountains, and moors, and meads, the radiant throng

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Australasia

© William Charles Wentworth

Hadst thou, old Cynic, seen this unclad crew
Stretch their bare bodies in the nightly dew,
Like hairy Satyrs, midst their Sylvan seats,
Endure both winter's frosts, and summer's heats;
Thy cloak and tub away thou wouldst have cast,
And tried, like them, to brave the piercing blast.

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A Lament

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

The dream is over,

The vision has flown;

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Paracelsus: Part IV: Paracelsus Aspires

© Robert Browning


Festus.
  So strange
That I must hope, indeed, your messenger
Has mingled his own fancies with the words
Purporting to be yours.

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The Wind And The Whirlwind

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I have a thing to say. But how to say it?
I have a cause to plead. But to what ears?
How shall I move a world by lamentation,
A world which heeded not a Nation's tears?