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Thinking about rationalist-adjacent poetry. I plan on making a post about this once I have a decent collection to seed discussion, then invite others to share what they have.
Tennyson's poems Ulysses and Locksley Hall both touch on rationalist-adjacent themes, among other themes, so I'd want to share excerpts from those
Piet Hein has some 'gruks' that would be worth including (although I am primarily familiar with them in the original Danish - I know there exist English translations of most of them, but I'll have to choose carefully, and the translations don't always capture the exact feeling of the original)
I have shared two works of my own here on my shortform that I'd want to include
Shakespeare's "When I do count the clock that tells the time" is a love poem, but it invokes transhumanist feelings in me