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TECHNICAL NOTE: The great majority of the links below are to scanned antique books at the Internet Archive, most of them anthologies. Poems frequently run for several pages; when coming to the apparent end of a poem, turn the page to make sure!

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• Tabb, Fr. John Bannister:
  • The Astronomer The brain is more astonishing than the sky.
  • Bicycles! Tricycles! A pun.
  • The Biologist ... thinks about death.
  • Evolution "Out of the dusk a shadow ..."
  • An Objector A version on the Nineteenth Century's most-repeated evolution joke.
  • A Phonograph A mocking-bird is a natural phonograph.
  • A Problem in Mathematics Either a shallow joke or extremely profound. [Unfortunately the only online copy has typographical errors, even in the author's name.]
  • Science is Martha to Faith's Mary.
  • Visible Sound Like many Nineteenth Century people, Tabb evidently believed science had proven "that form is but visible tone."

• Taylor, Bayard:
  • All or Nothing Parody of Romantic cosmology and the grandeur of geologic time.

• Taylor, Benjamin Franklin: The son of a mathematician.
  • The New Craft in the Offing Meaning the Comet of 1858.
  • The Northern Lights

• Taylor, Bert Leston: Surreal humourist who wrote for the Chicago Tribune.
  • Absolute Zero In light of the universe's immensity, what is less significant than a newspaper column? People who write in to complain about it.
  • The Astronomer ... is puzzled by the return of Encke's comet.
  • Ballad of the Clark Street Cable meaning the kind of cable that pulls a streetcar.
  • A Ballade of Star Dust: "Star dust our end, from dust we came: // The stuff of Cosmos is the same."
  • Blake Comes Back "Little Ford, who made thee?"
  • Canopus Interstellar distances put political conventions in perspective.
  • The Day of the Comet, and the Morning After
  • The Dinosaur: The famous ditty about the supposed posterior brain of Brachiosaurus.
    • Musical setting by Robert Learner.
  • Farewell! ... to the comet.
  • The Great Obsession ... with cleanliness. "Let the sleeping microbe lie!"
  • The Old Roller Towel: An example of technological change which rarely comes to mind.
  • The Soil of Kansas Parodies the florid writing of an agricultural article by setting it as verse.
  • In Statu Quo Since unfortunately there are no comets on a collision course with the Earth, the "so-called human race" will continue its dominance.
  • To A Well-Known Globe: "Gyrate, old Top, and let who will be clever."

• Taylor, Tom:
  • On the Death of Whewell An elegy for the great philosopher, cosmologist, and Master of Trinity, rather oddly described as a "sledge-hammer smiter in body and brain ... right kin of Thor".

• Tennyson: The main poetic interpreter of the Victorian worldview.
  • The Higher Pantheism
  • The How and the Why
  • In Memoriam
  • Locksley Hall and Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Including Tennyson's seeming premonitions (in 1835) about World War II and the UN, and his comments on how the Earth might appear from space.
  • Move Eastward, Happy Earth
    • Musical setting by North Sea Radio Orchestra
  • De Profundis

  • About:
    • Tennyson and the Science of the Nineteenth Century: Anonymous article in Popular Science 75, 306 [1909].

• Tesla, Nikola (translator):
  • Selected Poems of Jovan Jovanovic Zmai A bit nationalistic for some tastes, I would say.

• Thompson, Francis:
  • An Anthem of Earth A rather long poem about the planet that is both the mother and the grave of humans, plesiosaurs, and others.
  • Contemplation A languid summer day, but molecules are in motion.
  • A Dead Astronomer Despite the somewhat off-putting title, a tribute to the distinguished Jesuit astronomer Stephen Perry.
  • The Nineteenth Century The century of Science, war, imperialism, etc. Will the Twentieth be better?

• Thomson, Sir J. J.:
  • Ions Mine Parody of Clementine.

• Thoreau, Henry David: Despite his popularity with biologists, Thoreau was among the Nineteenth Century poets most outspokenly critical of science.
  • We See the Planet Fall Couplet from "Friday" in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Needs to be read in the context of the surrounding prose.
  • What's the Railroad to Me? From Walden, Chapter IV.

• Thornely, Thomas: Evidently his Verses from Fen and Fell enjoyed considerable popularity once. It also contains many poems on biological themes, and others about what would now be called "cognitive science".
  • The Atom Atomic energy cannot safely be liberated "till war and hate are laid to sleep".
  • To Count Zeppelin Wartime anti-German poem.
  • Ode to a Steam-Roller in the Lake District Tourists are apalled, but the poet isn't. I am unable to decide whether or not this poem is meant to be taken seriously; the same is true of the even more florid piece that immediately follows it in the anthology, To the Founder of the Aërated Bread Co., Ltd..
  • Thirlmere Waterworks A criticism of the famously controversial Lake District dam project. The Thirlmere Reservoir is arguably the birthplace of British environmentalism.

• Tilton, Theodore: Wrote for newspapers.
  • The Chant Celestial Religious poem with a few scientific allusions.
  • A Colloquy in the Clouds Odin and Thor are nothing beside Krupp (the arms manufacturer).
  • A Curiosity in Conchology About an ancient egg-shell; meant to be humourous.
  • The Ship of Pearl In memory of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
  • Tempora Mutantur We now ride bicycles, not horses.

• Timrod, Henry: A Confederate poet.
  • The Arctic Voyager

• Trotter, Alexander Pelham: Probably should have stuck to engineering.
  • Time Turned Back

• Tighe, Mary:
  • The Eclipse of January 24, 1804

• Todd, Mabel Loomis: Writer and semi-professional astronomer best remembered for editing the poems of Emily Dickinson.
  • Kilauea which she visited on a scientific expedition to the Pacific.
  • Valedictory Lines to A1, the train that carried the Amherst eclipse-observing expedition.

• Trowbridge, John Townsend:
  • Darius Green and His Flying Machine Immensely popular anti-technology satire, today remembered for the lines: 'Birds can fly // An' why can't I?'

• Tupper, Martin: Once immensely popular; extremely didactic. There are probably many other references to science and technology scattered through Tupper's many long and meandering verse-essays. His views do not seem to be very consistent internally, as the poems below indicate.
  • Of Curious Questions Among them, the question of extraterrestrial life.
  • Of Invention Only God actually invents anything. Ideas are conserved, just as matter is, but both may be recombined. Invention "is to find out things that are, not to create the unexisting."
  • Of Man's Date Upon Earth A long creationist poem about human origins; it does not really attempt to refute Darwin, but merely asserts its own version of prehistory dogmatically. Tupper places great stress on Victorian Darwinism's (often overlooked) racism, as opposed to the Christian doctrine that all people descend from Adam and are equally capable of salvation (but he still sees Hottentots and even Celts as inferior to "Jews, Saxons, and Chinese".)
  • Of Scripture and Science Scripture does not stoop to speaking of scientific subjects, which are minor because they concern time rather than eternity. On the other hand, there may well be all sorts of advanced scientific concepts hidden in scripture, which science is gradually rediscovering.
  • Of the Starry Heavens Combines fairly extensive knowledge of astronomy with odd speculations about the various planets as suitable homes for angels (e.g. the gas giants are less grossly material than the Earth).
  • Of This World's Age Promotes the common pre-Darwin catastrophist creationism, with an old earth but a young humanity.

• Turner, Rev. Charles Tennyson: Lord Tennyson's less-talented brother (but of course that's a pretty high standard to compete against!). To the modern reader he seems "typically Victorian", but this is perhaps more because his attitudes reflect the part of Victorian culture which is remembered than because they were in fact universally held.
  • Arms Old and New Weapons become ever more destructive over the centuries. The poem doesn't seem to comment on this, however, but just reports it.
  • The Hydraulic Ram The sound of a machine influences the speaker's psychology. One of Turner's more interesting poems.
  • Old Ruralities Nostalgia for the pre-industrial world -- a less common theme in Nineteenth Century verse than is often supposed.
  • Science and Faith Presents a solution to the conflict between them which would gain wide currency in the Twentieth Century: "Each has its orbit round Truth's central Sun !"
  • The South-Foreland Electric Light Technology is a symbol of England's unique greatness! Turner wrote several poems with this message.
  • The Telegraph Cable to India ... binding together the Empire, even the "lawless regions which we guard and subsidize".

• Turner, Herbert Hall: Oxford astronomer.
  • Astronomers We: Doggerel about an eclipse expedition to Hokkaido. The Coronet was a ship.