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Subject: ECLIPSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The eclipse's purple cast
Last Line: A line of prayer to hook %her thoughts
Subject(s): Eclipses


AN ECLIPSE, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When god reveals his plans to men
Last Line: Beneath a black cloud's pall.
Subject(s): Eclipses; God


ASTRONOMICAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "cousin edward, what do these scientists mean"
Last Line: He'll think it a lunar eclipse
Subject(s): Eclipses;science; Scientists


AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy shadow, earth, from pole to central sea
Last Line: Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?
Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon


DECEMBER ECLIPSE, by MARGO LOCKWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The birds %confused by the angle
Last Line: Like a peeping tom
Subject(s): Eclipses; Poetry And Poets


ECLIPSE, by JESSIE HAEFNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My sin / forms an eclipse / coming between my
Last Line: Darkness.
Subject(s): Eclipses; Fathers; Sin


ECLIPSE, by TOD MARSHALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The variations %aria %refuse cruelty
Last Line: Hear steady bells %an eloquent chant %that swells
Subject(s): Eclipses; God; Religion


ECLIPSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear not; the planet that bedims
Last Line: To mark its flight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Eclipses


ECLIPSE AT EASTER, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon, she is losing
Last Line: Orchid, azure, folding into black
Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon


ECLIPSES, by CHARLES FRANCIS RICHTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun went out in borneo
Last Line: As hopeless as a distant star.
Subject(s): Eclipses


EXPLAINING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE, by PATRICIA BAGATO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You stand in your narrated space
Last Line: Pulling off the face of the moon
Subject(s): Eclipses


FIELD GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY: SHEER DARKNESS (AN EXERCISE), by SUSAN E. WHEATLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This rarity occurs during a conjunction
Last Line: Stars align. Then you will exist, through a kiss
Subject(s): Eclipses


IN AN ECLIPSE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er in the course of our daytime of doing
Last Line: All the stars that we steer by will show in god's skies.
Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon; Sky; Stars


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: BLOOD ON A DEAD WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blowing night in late fall
Last Line: She asks. I do not answer
Subject(s): Eclipses; Love


LUNAR ECLIPSE, by NANCY EIMERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight as the merest ghost of us
Last Line: Whether our eyes are open or closed
Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon; Night


LUNAR ECLIPSE: HALE-BOPP OVER PALO ALTO, by MARY QUADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are not surprised to see the moon decay
Last Line: Where the earth shifts, where damage is usually irreparable
Subject(s): California; Eclipses


MOON ECLIPSE EXORCISM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come out come out come out
Last Line: And the others went back
Subject(s): Eclipses


MOON SHADOW (AN ECLIPSE PICTURE), by LILIAN C. B. MCA. MAYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was on the high hill
Last Line: And earth cannot answer.
Subject(s): Eclipses


ON AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN A STORM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow is the great eclipse,' we said
Last Line: Or guide the boatman on yon stormy mere.'
Subject(s): Eclipses


ON AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Struggling, and faint, and fainter didst thou wane
Last Line: Their beauteous queen and seize her sacred veil.
Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon


ON THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON OF OCTOBER 1865, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One little noise of life remained - I heard
Last Line: So perfect was the silence nature kept.
Subject(s): Eclipses


PINDAR ON THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All-enlightening, all-beholding
Last Line: Hurl destruction on mankind?
Subject(s): Eclipses; Sun


SEEING THE ECLIPSE IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It started about noon. On top of mount batte
Subject(s): Eclipses


SOLAR ECLIPSE, by JOE DAVID BELLAMY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a child I dreamed of a solar eclipse
Subject(s): Eclipses


SOLAR ECLIPSE, MAY 30, 1984, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each morning
Subject(s): Eclipses


SOLAR ECLIPSE: JULY 11. 1991, by ROBERT LAVETT SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A halo suddenly visible
Last Line: Wasn't there. A brightness %encircling emptiness, as love does
Subject(s): Eclipses


THE DAVENPORT LUNAR ECLIPSE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overlooking the mississippi
Last Line: In between, a life has passed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Eclipses; Mississippi


THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune
Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean


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 ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on her speculative tower
Last Line: And all-controlling power.
Subject(s): Eclipses


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: BLOOD ON A DEAD WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blowing night in late fall
Last Line: She asks. I do not answer
Subject(s): Eclipses; Love


THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crescent sun, waning
Last Line: The windows are darkened.
Subject(s): Eclipses; Eclipses


THE SUN'S ECLIPSE -- JULY 8TH, 1842, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced
Last Line: The thrilling joy, whose tears were on my cheek!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Eclipses; Sun; Dead, The; World


THERE WAS A TIME AN ECLIPSE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Art' to me is like walking down the street with someone and saying don't you love that building
Subject(s): Eclipses; Glaciers; Moon; Music And Musicians; Nature; Sky


TOTAL ECLIPSE, by MARIANNE BORUCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't look at it, my grandmother said
Last Line: Was a hand on my forehead, a human %voice at my ear
Subject(s): Eclipses


TOTAL ECLIPSE, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The saturday of the eclipse
Subject(s): Eclipses


TOTAL ECLIPSE, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night of the eclipse we're parallel
Last Line: Are all aligned in the predicted dark
Subject(s): Eclipses


WILD ROSE/ECLIPSE, by DAVID PINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a crow wing passed over the single light in the back lot
Last Line: As we try to live these days beyond the romantic notions we've honed
Subject(s): Eclipses; Flowers; Nature; Roses