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Subject: ASTRONOMY & ASTRONOMERS
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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 sky—yet 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