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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ASTRONOMY & ASTRONOMERS Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEAD ASTRONOMER; STEPHEN PERRY, S.J., by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Starry amorist, starward gone Last Line: Thou found'st the fairest star of all! Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers A WELCOME TO DR. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more orion and the sister seven Last Line: We bid thee welcome to thine earthly home! Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896) APPLIED ASTRONOMY, by ESTHER BROWN TIFFANY Poem Text First Line: He took me out to see the stars Last Line: Their safety lay in motion. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Courtship ASTRONOMERS, by WILLIAM E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: I've heard all astronomers are queer Last Line: Haunts them still, with many a pagan flout. Alternate Author Name(s): Faust, Henri Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers BANNEKER, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did he do except lie / under a pear tree Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806); Mathematics; Racial Equality BOSTON NURSERY RHYME: RHYME FOR AN ASTRONOMICAL BABY, by FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS COOK Poem Text First Line: Bye baby bunting Last Line: The angle of its inclination. Alternate Author Name(s): Cook, Joseph Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers ELLIPSE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night the astronomer Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers HOW STRANGE A THING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a thing to think upon Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World LINES ON THE COMET, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trav'ller of th' etherial round Last Line: With such rapid speed away. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Comets; Universe ODE ON ASTRONOMY; WRITTEN FOR THE PRIZE AT CAMBRIDGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail venerable night! Last Line: A god the gods among. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Immortality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime PLANETARIUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman in the shape of a monster Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Constellations; Herschel, Caroline (1750-1848); Herschel, William (1738-1822); Women PRAYER OF THE LONELY STUDENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night - holy night - the time Last Line: All the pure stars rejoicingly fulfil. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Prayer SKYEY DEVELOPMENTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds within the milky way Last Line: The scales against a battleship. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers STARS AND THE SOUL (TO CHARLES A. YOUNG, ASTRONOMER), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two things,' the wise man said, 'fill me with awe Last Line: And inward light that helps us all to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Knowledge; Science; Young, Charles Augustus (1834-1908); Scientists THE ASTRONOMER TO HIS MISTRESS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art my earth, and I thy moon Last Line: To his ecstatic perigee. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Love THE ASTRONOMER'S APPRENTICE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observing the noon sun over bangalore Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers THE ASTRONOMICAL ALDERMAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pedant or scholastikos became Last Line: "and that's the reason no one sees him!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543) THE ATSRONOMER, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, cold, and sacred is my chosen home Last Line: Shone clear, before I die. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers THE ECLIPSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: From gauzy mists of far, translucent white Last Line: Passed slowly into a complete eclipse. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Eclipses THE GREAT EXPLOSION, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The universe expands and contracts like a great heart Last Line: Of faceless violence, the root of all things Subject(s): Universe; Astronomy & Astronomers THE OBSERVATORY, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How vainly open eyes amaze Last Line: While seeing nothing, knowing all Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness TO AN ASTRONOMER, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the professor we'll waste not a glance Last Line: And ogle at leisure diana and venus. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Eyes TO BARON DE STONNE.....TO FIND HIMSELF BETWEEN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In twice five winters more and one Last Line: A sigh, a farewell, and a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Mercury (planet); Future TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to you o moon Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the skyyet to a child it has cold its secret. Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses VOTIVE TABLETS: TO THE ASTRONOMERS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the nebulae and planets do not babble so to me Last Line: Never the sublime abideth where you vainly search in space! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Space And Space Travel WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 1. COPERNICUS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbours gossiped idly at the door Last Line: "in that pure realm whose darkness is our peace." Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Cosmology WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 2. TYCHO BRAHE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They thought him a magician, tycho brahe Last Line: "for I am ready, ready now, to fall.'" Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601); Cosmology WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 3. KEPLER, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John kepler, from the chimney corner, watched Last Line: "ducklings and peas and all. Come, john, say grace." Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Cosmology; Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 4. GALILEO, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, my dearest friend, my own dear love Last Line: "into the great new realm I must not tread." Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Cosmology; Galileo (1564-1642); Galileo Galilei |
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