Unidentified photographer / artist
1870
Eta Mawr "Photography. A Sonnet."
Google Books
Eta Mawr, The Story of Count Ulaski: Aurelia; or, The Gifted: And other Poems, (London: Provost & Co., 1870), p.181.
 
PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Sonnet.
 
There's nothing new, forsooth, beneath the Sun?
  The Sun himself gives Negatives to that!
  Comes boldly forth in contradiction flat,
And teaches nought is old that now is done.
Phoebus was erst the poet's patron god;
  Him did the kindred art of music woo.
At these his ancient votaries might plod
  None ever dreamed he'd prove a painter too.
"In act how like a god" he does the deed!
  No pallette pencil paint doth he require;
  But stamps at once the image you desire;
Confers a power creative, at your need;
  And with the speed of light, outstripping thought,
  By light itself the miracle is wrought!
 
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