An eclectic collection of poems
by famous (and not so famous) writers reveling in the technical perfection
of this universe.
As Presented By Jared Savage.
This page is by no means a comprehensive study of what one may find in the world of scientific poetry. It is merely a quick presentation, a dancing overview of what the minds of the past and present have seen and presented for our consideration. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
"About Planck Time" - George Bradley
"Arcturus" - Emily Dickenson
"Atomic Architecture" - A.M. Sullivan
"Ballade of an Artificial Satellite" - Poul Anderson
"Connoisseur of Chaos" - Wallace Stevens
"Cosmic Gall" - John Updike
"Epistemology" - Richard Wilbur
From "An Essay on Man" - Alexander Pope
"Galaxy" - Richard Ryan
"Hudibras - Mathematician" - Samuel Butler
"I am Like a Slip of Comet..." - Gerard Manley
Hopkins
"The Kings of the World..." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Little Cosmic Dust Poem" - John Haines
"Man-Made Satellite" - Louis Ginsberg
"The Mathematician in Love" - W.J.M. Rankine
"Molecular Evolution" - James Clerk Maxwell
"The Nature of Matter and Energy" - Percy Bysshe
Shelley
"Nomad" - Anthony Piccione
"Ode to Spot" - Unknown
"The Observatory Ode" - John Frederick Nims
"Poem Rocket" - Alan Ginsburg
"Seeing Things" - Howard Nemerov
"Six Haiku" - Karen Anderson
"Space Shuttle" - Diane Ackerman
"Star-Swirls" - Robinson Jeffers
"True Enough: To the Physicist" - Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
"What Science Says to Truth" - William Watson
"The Windy Planet" - Annie Dillard
"When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" - Walt Whitman