414. To Science by Edgar Allan Poe
b"EA Poe read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\nTo Science\\nby Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)\\n\\nScience! True daughter of Old Time thou art!\\nWho alterest all things with thy peering eyes.\\nWhy preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,\\nVulture, whose wings are dull realities?\\nHow should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,\\nWho wouldst not leave him in his wandering\\nTo seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,\\nAlbeit he soared with an undaunted wing?\\nHast thou not dragged Diana from her car?\\nAnd driven the Hamadryad from the wood\\nTo seek a shelter in some happier star?\\nHast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,\\nThe Elfin from the green grass, and from me\\nThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 27 January 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009"