When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
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
When I sitting heard the 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 off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
~~
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
from Drum-taps, 1865
[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]
Walt Whitman biography
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
~~
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
from Drum-taps, 1865
[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]
Walt Whitman biography
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" read by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Courtesy American Museum of Natural History.
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