పోఎం on Pavan Yarahttps://pavanyara.com/tags/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%82/Recent content in పోఎం on Pavan YaraHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USpavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)Pavan YaraFri, 15 May 2009 13:00:00 +0530When I heard the learn'd astronomerhttps://pavanyara.com/blog/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer/Fri, 15 May 2009 13:00:00 +0530pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)https://pavanyara.com/blog/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer/<p>*When I heard the learn&rsquo;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 the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander&rsquo;d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look&rsquo;d up in perfect silence at the stars.</p>*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 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, "When I heard the learn'd astronomer", *Leaves of Grass
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