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 the 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;                        5

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.

 

Semantic fields:

 

Geometry and Maths: proofs, figures, columns, charts, diagrams, add, divide, measure

Sound: heard, applause, silence

Time: when, soon, night, time

University / school: lecture, lecture-room, astronomer

 

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

 

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love:

 

A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!

--Fair as a star, when only one

Is shining in the sky.

 

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!

 

Semantic fields:

 

Nature: violet, stone, star, sky

Old literary words: dwelt, untrodden, Maid

Quantity: none, few, half, one

Space: among, beside, there, by, from, in

Unknown: untrodden, hidden, unknown, know