 WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in...  Darwin, Divinity, And The Dance Of The Cosmos: An Ecological Christianity - Page 23by Bruce Sanguin - 256 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1926 - 1160 pages
...Pioneers IO pioneers! From Drum-Taps, 1865. WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER When I heard the learn 'd x Jޮ pM hl t -(v \ A Qs...o N1 lAyԖ 1 ] 4 !S V+ 瀤 j [ 4;uZ the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them ; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1928 - 504 pages
...lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin. WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN D ASTRONOMER When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1997 - 56 pages
...discovers something in thefirst-hand experience that the lectures cannot convey. When I heard the learn 'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...View of the Heavens (p. 413) Volume 8, Number 7, October 1970 Whitman, Walt When I heard the leam'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick . . . Complete Poetry and Collected Prose... | |
 | Bonnye L. Matthews - Medical - 1998 - 216 pages
...HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER" In his poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," Walt Whitman tells how When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd... | |
 | Edwin S. Shneidman - Family & Relationships - 1999 - 562 pages
...figures can only remind one of Whitman's poem, "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer": When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room. How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd... | |
 | Michael Reagan - Photography - 1999 - 172 pages
...best when he wrote in the poem that was to become part of "Leaves of Grass," When I heard the Ieam'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged...columns before me When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured... | |
 | Leon E. Trachtman, Robert Perrucci - Political Science - 2000 - 196 pages
...perspective on life is perhaps best illustrated in his "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd... | |
 | Howard Rachlin - Psychology - 2000 - 258 pages
...life. Notes Introduction 1. The poem is Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astonomer": When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I heard the astronomer when he lectured to much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable... | |
 | S. Jonathan Singer - Philosophy - 2001 - 274 pages
...indeed expect so. One of our greatest poets and most eminent humanists wrote the following: When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wandered... | |
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