By: Thomas Hardy

“Darwin’s theories were a snare”

By: Vachel Lindsay

Lord, give us Darwin’s eyes!

By: George Sterling

So dreamt thy sons on worlds destroyed…

By: H.L. Mencken

No joy, no whirling numbness of the brain…

By: William E. Henley

“Handle her valves, / Her essentials, her secrets…”

By: Ford Madox Ford

“Hidden in the millionth of a cell…”

By: Stephen Spender

Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret.

By: Randolph Bourne

“We living bodies deaden-deaden-deaden…”

By: Rudyard Kipling

“We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!”

By: HILOBROW

“Astronomy was not embraced within his mental girth”

By: Clark Ashton Smith

“Through gulfs that mightily divide/Like to an intervital sleep”

By: H.D.

“Your star, steel-set, keeps lone and frigid tryst/to freighted ships”