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Subject: HERSCHEL, WILLIAM (1738-1822)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PLANETARIUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Full 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


PLANETARIUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman in the shape of a monster
Last Line: And the reconstruction of the mind
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Constellations; Herschel, Caroline (1750-1848); Herschel, William (1738-1822); Women


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 6. WILLIAM HERSCHEL CONDUCTS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it a dream? - that crowded concert-room
Last Line: Yes -- comfort ye, my people, saith your god?
Subject(s): Conductors (music); Cosmology; Herschel, William (1738-1822)


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 7. SIR HERSCHEL REMEMBERS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True type of all, from his own father's hand
Last Line: Praise and forget the splendour whence we came.
Subject(s): Conductors (music); Cosmology; Herschel, William (1738-1822)