Not all his life was spent with fact or truth, nor success

Any critical, or positive, feedback is welcome. I'd like to know what I can work on to improve as a writer overall, both specifically and generally.! Also, this piece is describing Isaac Newton's beliefs in realign, in alchemy, and his pursuit of a law to describe both the tiny things we are unable to see or feel (Light particles, for example) and the larger pieces of matter (such as the physical Earth). Thank you for taking the time to read this piece!

Perhaps a myth, a fabled gain,
Would fail to catch a brilliant eye.
But ‘lo and behold, for what that eye saw
Was riches and life in a philosopher’s stone.

That brilliant mind merged mercury with gold
In hopes to increase the ore of worth.
‘Tis no shock that he failed in his pursuit of the myth,
Nor is its eventual abandonment surprising

Though he was still known always
As a pursuer of firm science and facts of Earth,
He did hold belief quite close.
A million words and nearly half again, were written of his religious values alone


And while science was conversing with hope and strict belief,
A new law was pursued to explain, as one,
Matter seen and that unfelt.
‘Twas hoped it would define both aspects together as matter as a whole.

Though his search for o single explanation of matter
Is still uncompleted today,
Those sleepless nights and meal-less days
Portray that the brilliant eye was not only capable of viewing fact.



(Christianson, 69-74)