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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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• Campbell, Thomas:
  • Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of La Perouse's "Voyages" The large and well-funded scientific expedition commanded by the Comte de Lapérouse vanished in the Pacific in 1789, a mystery that fired the Nineteenth Century imagination.
  • To the Rainbow Anti-scientific.

• Carroll, Lewis: (To be added.)

• Carruth, William Herbert
  • Each in His Own Tongue "Some call it Evolution // And others call it God": the pro-Darwin poem most-loved by the general public.

• Channing, William Ellery:
  • The Wanderer, Part VI: The Cape Discusses its prehistory, although more interested in later times.

• Chapin, Charles W. E., Jr.:
  • The Dead Astronomer

• Chatterton, Thomas: A retrofuturist indeed!
  • The Copernican System "These are Thy wondrous works, First Source of Good // Now more admired in being understood."

• Chesterton, G. K.: Ultraconservative religious intellectual who disliked the Nineteenth Century in which he was born only a bit less than the Twentieth in which he died. He had little use for science, differing in this and other respects from his far less abrasive fictional alter ego, the detective Fr. Brown.
  • For Four Guilds Although Chesterton opposed Industrial Revolution capitalism, he did not reject technology as such: he wanted it to be humane and spiritual, as he supposed it to have been in the Middle Ages.
  • The Higher Mathematics Obscure (possibly anti-Semitic or anti-Zionist) satire, with references to non-Euclidean geometry.
  • To a Holy Roller About the Scopes Trial. Chesterton despised both Darwinism and fundamentalist Protestantism.
  • Hygiene Satire against public health authorities who had proclaimed: "All practical eugenicists are agreed on the importance of sleep."
  • Professor James Dewar Sometimes attributed to Chesterton's colleague Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
  • King's Cross Station Which will someday be a ruin.
  • The Song of the Wheels "You have engines big and burnished, tall beyond our fathers' ken // Why should you make peace, and traffic with such feeble folk as men?"

• Child, J. M.:
  • The Cal-Dif-Fluk Saga A pseudo-epic about the invention of calculus.

• Clark, Lewis Gaylord:
  • A Rail-Road Lyric

• Clark, Thomas Curtis: Well-known as a religious poet in the earlier decades of the Twentieth Century.
  • In an Age of Science Science as the ally of (true) religion.

• Clarke, Grant: American popular song-writer.
  • He'd Have to Get Under -- Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile) Co-written with Edgar Leslie. (Link to sheet music.)
    • Performed by Billy Murray, 1914

• Clough, Arthur Hugh:
  • Dipsychus, II, iv: Ah, if I had a course ... The problem of life in the Industrial Age: one is only a cog in someone else's machine.
  • Dipsychus, II, v: The scene begins with a solar-system metaphor; the last lines of the previous scene also allude to astronomy, and there other similar references scattered through the play.
  • The New Sinai Against scientific atheism.
  • Selene Gravitation and optics as erotic metaphors.
  • Uranus Takes a Platonist view of astronomy as a road to higher wisdom rather than as something valuable in itself.
  • ABOUT:
    • Stephen, James Kenneth: Of A. H. C.: The Literary and Scientific Society Evidently meaning a student society at Eton College. "A. H. C." is probably "Arthur Hugh Clough".

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Although among the most scientifically inclined of the Romantics, he rarely used scientific themes in his poetry.
  • Epigram on Kepler as a starving genius.
  • A Mathematical Problem The teen-aged Coleridge turns a geometry problem into doggerel: "I may justly plume myself, that I first have drawn the nymph Mathesis from the visionary caves of abstracted Idea, and caused her to unite with Harmony."
  • Priestley
  • Religious Musings including "musings" on the history and meaning of physics.
  • Spots in the Sun A metaphor.

• Coles, Abraham: A New Jersey medical doctor, he was best known as a translator of mediæval Latin hymns, often in multiple versions. However, he also wrote his own (mainly religious) poetry, work often alluding to contemporary science but seeming more of the Renaissance than of the Nineteenth Century.
  • Cosmos A response in verse to Humboldt's Cosmos, containing two verse translations of Psalm 104, a Romantic science poem God in Nature, and a morning hymn.
  • Man the Microcosm So far as I am aware, noöne had attempted to write a piece like this since the 1600s.

• Collins, Mortimer:
  • Chloe, M. A., Fresh From Her Cambridge Examination Not as sexist a poem as one might fear.

• Coughlin, William J.:
  • Uker A long, very strange poem with embedded songs.

• Cowper, William:
  • From The Task: Book III (Starting at 'Some drill and bore // The solid earth, and from the strata there'). Strong religiously motivated attack on science (especially geology and astronomy), although later presents a less detailed vision of the 'Christian philosopher', epitomised by Newton.

• Crabbe, George:
  • The Borough, Letter VII: Physic