| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | To Science | | By Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| | | SCIENCE! true daughter of Old Time thou art! | |
| Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. | |
| Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, | |
| Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? | |
| How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, | 5 |
| 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 | 10 |
| 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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