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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD AND A STAR, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The star, so pure in saintly white
Last Line: Go out into the infinite.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Children; Stars; Infinity


A CHILD'S FIRST IMPRESSION OF A STAR, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She had been told that god made all the stars
Last Line: "father! Dear father! God has made a star!"
Subject(s): Stars


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon that now is shining
Last Line: Of glory and of peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Peace; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nativity, The


A CRY FOR CONQUEST, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, let me out into the starlight night
Last Line: Stand steadfast in the consciousness of power!
Subject(s): Desire; Life; Stars


A FLOWER'S SONG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Star! Star, why dost thou shine
Last Line: To be, like you, a star.
Subject(s): Stars


A LION NAMED PASSION, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hungering on the gray plain of its birth
Subject(s): Stars


A LOOSE MOUNTAIN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you stay up last night (the magi did)
Last Line: So we won't simply take it and absorb it
Subject(s): Stars


A MAN OF MANY PARTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a man of many parts
Last Line: A man of many parts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Art & Artists; Stars; Wisdom


A MOTTO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brightest star's the modestest
Last Line: Accordin' to his lights.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Light; Stars


A NWE PHILOSOPHY; OR, STAR SHOWERS EXPLAINED, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One luminous night in winter
Last Line: "and the wockets is whizzing off!"
Subject(s): Stars


A PARTY, by NANCY ELLEN FINCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lady night will entertain
Last Line: To shine their dullish noses.
Subject(s): Night; Parties; Stars; Bedtime


A SILVER WONDER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Shall I this night, amazed and full of wonder
Last Line: Peep out of their dark holes like timid mice!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Stars


A STAR IN A STONE-BOAT; FOR LINCOLN MACVEAGH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never tell me that not one star of all
Last Line: That I am like to compass, fool or wise.
Subject(s): Stars


A STAR-GAZER GOES HIGHER, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He read the vaulted heavens for his book
Last Line: What fadeless stars, what never-setting sun?
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


A TWILIGHT SONG, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME    Poem Text                    
First Line: When swallows fly
Last Line: To me again.
Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sky; Stars; Sunset; Twilight


A VISION OF THE STARS, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For ever gone! The world is growing old!
Last Line: Walk, for one night, amid the hosts of heaven.
Subject(s): Stars


AB ASTRIS, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the stars swept through ethereal space
Last Line: This rhythmic march led on by power divine.
Subject(s): Stars


ACMEIST NIGHT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning unfurls its open vowel. This is the sky
Last Line: In its mouth, the willows burning
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars


ADMONITION, by ALICE COYN TORBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Round each day's task before the set of sun
Last Line: And we must wonder why you wait.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Stars; Sun; Work; Workers


AFTER A LONG PAUSE AND THOUGHTS OF FOREVER, REGULARS AT VERA'S SCAT..., by ALISON PELEGRIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's none of us living lives we haven't made ourselves
Last Line: She settles in her falling bed of stars
Subject(s): Life; Stars


AFTERMATH, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the blast of stars, death is a moth
Last Line: And the leaves fall like wounds upon our hands
Subject(s): Stars


ALDEBARAN AT DUSK, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art the star for which all evening waits
Last Line: Thy lone and everlasting rose of light.
Subject(s): Stars


ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it was promised so I beheld
Last Line: A gibbering, furtive beast, by nature damned.
Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Moon; Stars; Sun; Trees


AN INSOLUBLE PROBLEM, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhona, as yet a tiny mite
Last Line: Not being god upon his throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Stars


AN ODE TO ANTARES, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dusk, when lowlands where dark waters glide
Last Line: Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden youth!
Subject(s): Stars


ANASTASIA AND THE SANDMAN, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brow of a horse in that moment when
Subject(s): Sleep; Stars


ANASTASIA AND THE SANDMAN, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brow of a horse in that moment when
Last Line: Under the missing & innumerable stars
Subject(s): Sleep; Stars


APPROACH OF NIGHT, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the yellow in the sky
Last Line: Night is here.
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


AS MANY STARS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As many stars as are aglow
Last Line: A love that will not die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Stars


ASSURANCE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea, there are as many stars under the earth as
Last Line: And the future sure before me.
Subject(s): Future; Stars


ASTER (1), by PLATO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My star, star-gazing? - if only I could be
Last Line: But now in death your evening lights the dead
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Stars


ASTER (2), by PLATO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My star, star-gazing? - if only I could be
Last Line: The sky, with all those eyes to stare at you!
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Stars


ASTER (3), by PLATO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were the morning star among the living
Last Line: But now in death your evening lights the dead
Subject(s): Death; Stars


ASTRAL LOGIC, by JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not believe
Last Line: Irresistible, these many-flighted stairs
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Stars


ASTROLOGER'S ADDRESS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fellow citizens all, for whose safety I peep
Last Line: And if none of these happen, 'twill be a great wonder.
Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Planets; Prophecy & Prophets; Stars; Universe


ASTROPHEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A star in the silence that follows
Last Line: A star by a star.
Subject(s): England; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roundels; Stars; English


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 10, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reason, in faith thou art well served that still
Last Line: By reason good, good reason her to love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 100, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O tears! No tears, but rain from beauty's skies
Last Line: All mirth farewell, let me in sorrow live.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 101, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies
Last Line: Of such heaven stuff, to clothe so heavenly mind.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 102, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where be those roses gone which sweetened so our eyes?
Last Line: While beauty's reddest ink venus for him doth stir.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 103, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy thames that didst my stella bear
Last Line: Let honour's self to thee grant highest place.'
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 104, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Envious wits, what hath been mine offence
Last Line: Do stella love. Fools, who doth it deny?
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 105, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy sight, and hath she vanished by
Last Line: With no worse curse than absence makes me taste.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 106, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O absent presence! Stella is not here
Last Line: Merry with him, and not think of his woe.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 107, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella, since thou so right a princess art
Last Line: And scorning say, 'see, what it is to love!'
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 108, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sorrow, using mine own fire's might
Last Line: And in my joys for thee my only annoy.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 11, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In truth, o love, with what a boyish kind
Last Line: But, fool, seek'st not to get into her heart.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 12, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid, because thou shin'st in stella's eyes
Last Line: That to win it, is all the skill and pain.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 13, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus was judge between jove, mars, and love
Last Line: The first, thus matched, were scarcely gentlemen.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 15, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that do search for every purling spring
Last Line: Stella behold, and then begin to endite.
Variant Title(s): Poetry's Source
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 16, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In nature apt to like, when I did see
Last Line: As who by being poisoned doth poison know.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 17, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His mother dear, cupid offended late
Last Line: Falls to shrewd turns; and I was in his way.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 18, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what sharp checks I in myself am shent
Last Line: Than that I lose no more for stella's sake.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 19, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On cupid's bow how are my heart-strings bent
Last Line: Scholar,' saith love, 'bend hitherward your wit.'
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 2, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not at [the] first sight, nor with a dribbed shot
Last Line: While with a feeling skill I paint my hell.
Variant Title(s): Hit By Love
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 21, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your words, my friend (right healthful caustics), blame
Last Line: Hath this world aught so fair as stella is?
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 22, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In highest way of heaven the sun did ride
Last Line: The sun, which others burned, did her but kiss.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 23, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness
Last Line: But only stella's eyes and stella's heart.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 26, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology
Last Line: By only those two eyes in stella's face.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 27, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I oft in dark abstracted guise
Last Line: Bends all his powers, even unto stella's grace.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 28, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that with allegory's curious frame
Last Line: Love only reading unto me this art.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 29, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like some weak lords, neighboured by mighty kings
Last Line: Upon that coast, am giv'n up for a slave.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 3, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine
Last Line: But copying is, what in her nature writes.
Variant Title(s): "let Daintie Wits Crie On The Sisters Nine"";
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 30, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the turkish new moon minded be
Last Line: But know not how, for still I think of you.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 33, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I might, unhappy word, oh me, I might
Last Line: That I had been more foolish, or more wise!
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 34, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let me write, and to what end? To ease
Last Line: Stella's great powers, that so confuse my mind.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 35, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What may words say, or what may words not say
Last Line: It is a praise to praise, when thou art praised.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 36, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella, whence doth this new assault arise
Last Line: By sense's privilege, can 'scape from thee.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 37, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell
Last Line: Hath no misfortune, but that rich she is.
Variant Title(s): "my Mouth Doth Water, And My Breast Doth Swell"";
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 38, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This night, while sleep begins with heavy wings
Last Line: But him, her host, that unkind guest had slain.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 4, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Virtue, alas, now let me take some rest
Last Line: That, virtue, thou thy self shalt be in love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 40, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As good to write, as for to lie and groan!
Last Line: O, do not let thy temple be destroyed.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 41, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance
Last Line: Sent forth the beams, which made so fair my race.
Variant Title(s): "having This Day My Horse, My Hand, My Launce"";
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 42, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O eyes which do the spheres of beauty move
Last Line: Wracks triumphs be, which love (high set) doth breed.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 43, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair eyes, sweet lips, dear heart, that foolish
Last Line: Where well he knows, no man to him can come.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 44, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My words I know do well set forth my mind
Last Line: Are metamorphosed straight to tunes of joys.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 45, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella oft sees the very face of woe
Last Line: I am not I, pity the tale of me.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 46, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cursed thee oft, I pity now thy case
Last Line: Till without fuel you can make hot fire.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 48, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me
Last Line: A kind of grace is to slay with speed.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 5, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is most true that eyes are formed to serve
Last Line: True; and yet true, that I must stella love.
Variant Title(s): "it Is Most True That Eyes Form's To Serve"";
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 50, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella, the fullness of my thoughts of thee
Last Line: Because their forefront bare sweet stella's name.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 51, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon mine ears, both I and they do pray
Last Line: By such unsuited speech should hindered be.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 53, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In martial sports I had my cunning tried
Last Line: Till that her blush taught me my shame to see.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 55, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Muses, I oft invoked your holy aid
Last Line: That I well find no eloquence like it.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 56, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie, school of patience, fie! Your lesson is
Last Line: And then with patience bid me bear my fire.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 57, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe, having made with many fights his own
Last Line: So sweets my pains, that my pains me rejoice.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 58, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doubt there hath been, when with his golden chain
Last Line: Even those sad words even in sad me did breed.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 59, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?
Last Line: Becomes a clog) will soon ease me of it.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 6, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain
Last Line: When trembling voice brings forth, that I do stella love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 60, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my good angel guides me to the place
Last Line: Blessed in my curse, and cursed in my bliss.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 61, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft with true sighs, oft with uncalled tears
Last Line: That I love not, without I leave to love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 62, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late tired with woe, even ready for to pine
Last Line: Dear, love me not, that you may love me more.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 65, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, by sure proof I may call thee unkind
Last Line: Thou bear'st the arrow, I the arrow head.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 66, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And do I see some cause a hope to feed
Last Line: They fled with blush, which guilty seemed of love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 67, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope, art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?
Last Line: Rather than by more truth to get more pain.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 69, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O joy too high for my low style to show!
Last Line: No kings be crowned, but they some covenents make.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 70, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My muse may well grudge at my heavenly joy
Last Line: Wise silence is best music unto bliss.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 73, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love still a boy and oft a wanton is
Last Line: That anger's self I needs must kiss again.
Variant Title(s): "love Still A Boy, And Oft A Wanton Is"";
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 75, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the kings that ever here did reign
Last Line: To lose his crown, rather than fail his love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 76, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She comes, and straight therewith her shining twins do move
Last Line: Pray that my sun go down with meeker beams to bed.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 77, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those looks, whose beams be joy, whose motion is delight
Last Line: Yet ah, my maiden muse doth blush to tell the rest.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 78, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O how the pleasant airs of true love be
Last Line: Is it not ill that such a devil wants horns?
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 79, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly indite
Last Line: Cease we to praise, now pray we for a kiss.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 8, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, born in greece, of late fled from his native place
Last Line: He burnt unwares his wings, and cannot fly away.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 80, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet-swelling lip, well mayest thou swell in pride
Last Line: Sweet lip, you teach my mouth with one sweet kiss.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 81, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart
Last Line: Stop you my mouth with still still kissing me.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 82, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nymph of the garden where all beauties be
Last Line: I will but kiss, I never more will bite.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 85, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the house. My heart thyself contain!
Last Line: Thou but of all the kingly tribute take.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 86, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I
Last Line: No doom should make one's heaven become his hell.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 87, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was forced from stella ever dear
Last Line: I had been vexed, if vexed I had not been.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 88, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out, traitor absence, darest thou counsel me
Last Line: United powers make each the stronger be.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 89, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that of absence the most irksome night
Last Line: I feel the flames of hottest summer day.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 9, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen virtue's court, which some call stella's face
Last Line: Of touch they are, and poor I am their straw.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 91, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella, while now by honour's cruel might
Last Line: Not them, o no, but you in them I love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 92, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be your words made, good sir, of indian weave
Last Line: Say all, and all well said, still say the same.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 93, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fate, o fault, o curse, child of my bliss
Last Line: I cry thy sighs; my dear, thy tears I bleed.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 94, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief, find the words, for thou hast made my brain
Last Line: By being placed in such a wretch as I.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 95, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet sighs, dear sighs, indeed true friends you are
Last Line: Thank-worthiest yet, when you shall break my heart.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 96, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thought, with good cause thou likest so well the night
Last Line: Thou, though still tired, yet still dost it detest.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 97, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the night
Last Line: While I despair my sun's sight to enjoy.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 99, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye
Last Line: Such light in sense, with such a darkened mind.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: EIGHTH SONG, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a grove most rich of shade
Last Line: That therewith my song is broken.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: ELEVENTH SONG (LOVER'S DIALOGUE), by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it that this dark night
Last Line: And from louts to run away.
Variant Title(s): The Serenade;voices At The Window
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: FIFTH SONG, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While favour fed my hope, delight with hope was brought
Last Line: That all these cruel words your praises shall be proved.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: FIRST SONG (TO STELLA), by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doubt you to whom my muse these songs intendeth
Last Line: Only in you my song begins and endeth.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: NINTH SONG, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, my flock, go get you hence
Last Line: Her poor slave's unjust decaying.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: SECOND SONG (STELLA SLEEPING), by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I caught my heavenly jewel
Last Line: Fool, more fool, for no more taking.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: SEVENTH SONG (STELLA SINGING), by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose senses in so ill consort their stepdame nature lays
Last Line: The very essence of their tunes, when angels do rejoice.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: SIXTH SONG, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you that hear this voice
Last Line: With limitless renown.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: TENTH SONG, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dear life, when shall it be
Last Line: At her lips my nectar drinking.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: THIRD SONG, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If orpheus' voice had force to breathe such music's love
Last Line: O eyes, o ears of men, how are you charmed!
Subject(s): Love; Stars


AT WEEP, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't move can't speak can't think to wonder
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


AUTUMN AND WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon
Last Line: A star had set?
Subject(s): Roundels; Seasons; Soul; Stars


AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day
Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars.
Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World


AUTUMN SKY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my great grandmother's time
Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Time


AVA GARDNER AFTER CHRISTMAS, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold air rushing under door
Last Line: Browsing: a semi-contented mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Motion Pictures; Stars


BEAUTY, by ALICE BOOTH DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who scorns / the simple things
Last Line: A star.
Subject(s): Stars


BEHIND EACH STAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind each star a small dream hides
Last Line: And fast asleep in bed
Subject(s): Stars; Dreams


BENJAMIN BANNEKER SENDS HIS 'ALMANAC' TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old now, / your eyes nearly blank
Subject(s): Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806); Stars; Mathematics


BEYOND THE STARS I SEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gaze into thy heavens, lord
Last Line: The christ of calvary.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Future Life; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


BIOGRAPHY, by IDELLA PURNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gregory had a proud mother
Last Line: I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Stars; Suicide; Nightmares


BLIND MAN CARVES A STAR, by MARCIA SIMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish you would tell me
Last Line: The nourishment of light
Subject(s): Light; Stars


BLUE CALABASH, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Kernels %of %corn
Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Stars


BLUE STARS AND GOLD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While walking through the trams and cars
Last Line: Standing between a car and tram!
Subject(s): Stars


BLUE-EYED GRASS OF MAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Star, high star, far in the blue
Last Line: They are the blue-eyed grass of may!
Subject(s): May (month); Stars


BOOK OF VISIONS: THE LITTLE LIGHTS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Starred nights, white days and days of blue, each chasing each with
Last Line: Shall close my eyes on earth to the dancing of the little lights.
Subject(s): Death; France; Stars; Dead, The


BRIGHT STAR, by DAVID HINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, do you remember, my fairest
Last Line: Like the star in the blue sky above
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Stars


BROTHER BEASTS, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter is here / and there are no leaves
Last Line: May have some goal.
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Soul; Stars; Winter; Nightmares


BY STARLIGHT, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now far from those harsh lightsand the glare over cities
Subject(s): Stars; Togetherness


BY WAY OF THE STARS, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Raise, gentle muse, a worthy note!
Last Line: And take the stars along our way.
Subject(s): Creation; Hope; Soul; Stars; Optimism


CAELI, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If stars were really watching eyes
Last Line: I could not feel more far away.
Subject(s): Angels; Stars


CAELICA: 4, by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You little stars that live in skies
Last Line: To love and never seek compassion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Variant Title(s): His Lady's Eyes;to Her Eyes
Subject(s): Eyes; Stars


CARTER GLASS OF VIRGINIA, by JOHN FRANCIS STEELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There stands a man who looks out from the stars
Last Line: There stands a man!
Subject(s): Nations; Stars; War


CASTARA, by WILLIAM HABINGTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the violet, which alone
Variant Title(s): Description Of Castar
Subject(s): Freedom; Stars


CATHERINE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beauteous star arises o'er my night
Last Line: Their ghostly scent still haunts my bosom.
Subject(s): Fate; Kisses; Life; Night; Stars; Destiny; Bedtime


CELESTIAL MECHANICS, by ANTHONY WALTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have always been the poor
Last Line: In place, suspended, %balanced, and helpless
Subject(s): Schools; Stars


CELESTIAL SCANDAL, by ELVA R. RAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whoever hangs the stars at night
Last Line: In cassiopeia's chair.
Subject(s): Stars


CELESTIAL SIGNS, by BROOKES MORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The occult magian, versed in subtle art
Last Line: Or dreams must satisfy -- until we go.
Subject(s): Stars


CHANGING SKIES OF ARCTURUS AND ANTARES, by NEWTON MINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is that star again. While nights are cold
Last Line: We see the grim, red-hearted giant creep, %lifting his tail to strike
Subject(s): Stars


CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: O star (the fairest one in sight),
Last Line: To stay our minds on and be staid
Subject(s): Stars


CHRIST LIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out through the night there shines a star
Last Line: Deflected by you, christ's light divine.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Light; Stars; Paradise


CHRISTMAS, by HARRIET WHEELER PIERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A simple tale of shepherds and of sheep
Last Line: And to the dear, familiar things, a star!
Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Stars; Infants; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 3. BEYOND CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye that weep in sleep
Last Line: When that day is born.
Subject(s): Bodies; Soul; Stars


CHRISTMAS GREETING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A word of godspeed and good
Last Line: The world's face, with god's smile on it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Smiles; Stars; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How hushed they were in heaven that / night
Last Line: To man it seemed a star.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Heaven; Stars; Nativity, The; Paradise


CHRISTMAS TREE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This seablue fir that rode the mountain storm
Subject(s): Christmas; Past; Children; Death; Stars; Nativity, The; Childhood; Dead, The


CINQUAIN, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twin stars / gleam in the pool
Last Line: Who weeps.
Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Stars; Male-female Relations


CLEMATIS MONTANA, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flocks of itinerant stars, flung from night's
Last Line: Pool of the soul's wide summer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Stars; Summer; Bugs


CLEVEDON VERSES: 5. STAR-STEERING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, will it ever come again
Last Line: When shall I steer by you again, o stars?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Stars


CONJUNCTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Planets in close conjunction only seem
Last Line: Farther apart than midnight star and star.
Subject(s): Planets; Soul; Stars


CONTACT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O flame-shaped cypresses
Last Line: It is they who light the stars?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Stars


CORAZON WAKES UP TO WATCH THE SKY, by MARGO TAMEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and me at night, on the rez, no lights
Last Line: The power of the chilis made life together possible
Subject(s): Night; Sky; Stars


CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise
Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


COTTON-WOOL, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shun the brush and shun the pen
Last Line: Amen.
Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Stars


COUNTING, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go count the stars!
Last Line: Pray, is there one who can count the unborn souls?
Subject(s): Stars


COUNTING THE STARS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cuckoo bird has long been dumb
Last Line: And me beneath the apple bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Stars


CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth upon earth %between the confines of the day
Last Line: The head in the hands, %the urn upon the knee
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars


DAISIES, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At evening when I go to bed
Subject(s): Stars


DARK THE STAR', by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There is no technique in the rose
Subject(s): Stars


DAY'S BLACK STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Is it that small black star
Last Line: To me thy joy to live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Stars


DAYLIGHT IS DYING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daylight is dying
Last Line: You some echo of song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Death; Evening; Singing & Singers; Stars; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight


DELAY, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: The radiance of that star leans on me
Last Line: And love arrived may find us somewhere else
Subject(s): Love; Patience; Stars; Time


DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up rose the moon in glory
Last Line: "a bringing in the light."
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime


DIM FACE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim face of beauty haunting all the world
Last Line: To a little sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Men; Peace; Stars; Nightmares


DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CONCLUDING PASSAGE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, for the lofty phantasy, power failed me
Last Line: My will and my desire that love was turning %which moves alike the sun and all the stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Stars


DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CONCLUDING PASSAGE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came reborn from that most holy water
Last Line: Pure and intent on mounting to the stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Stars


DIVINA COMMEDIA; THE INFERNO. CONCLUDING PASSAGE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My guide and I on that obscure road entered
Last Line: The heaven doth bear; and out of it we issued %to see above us once again the stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Stars


EARLY COSMOLOGY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where am I when I first hear the high orbiting
Last Line: What a glimmering plate of dust it all might be
Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers; Space And Space Travel; Stars


EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind
Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are.
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime


EATING A STAR, by JOSIE KEARNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first point breaks in half
Last Line: Wait to snap like bolts %of envy out of the blue
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Imagination; Stars


EL HOMBRE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a strange courage
Last Line: Toward which you lend no part!
Subject(s): Stars


ELEGIAC SONNET: 72. TO THE MORNING STAR. WRITTEN NEAR SEA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee! Lucid arbiter 'twixt day and night
Last Line: Once lent to light me on my thorny way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Stars


ELEGY FOR SEVEN, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside your window, a world hardly more
Last Line: You can go anywhere but %home
Subject(s): Astronauts; Planets; Space And Space Travel; Stars; Universe


ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: STARS, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dusk the first stars appear
Last Line: And an orange moon rises %to lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn
Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Stars


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 37. LOVE'S MY POLE-STAR, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Others are led by tyranny of fate
Last Line: I am the loadstone, he's my fixed pole.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


ERASING STARS, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A teacher of standing, a poet, tells her class, 'never put stars in your
Last Line: Can't be done. This failure has nothing to do with personal habits
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Stars


ESCAPE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, let me go where no children are!
Last Line: Help me to go where no children are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Escapes; Stars; Fugitives


ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep pools there are, pools quiet and still
Last Line: And yet cannot escape from you?
Subject(s): Escapes; Lakes; Memory; Moon; Stars; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds


ESCAPE AT BEDTIME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Last Line: And the stars going round in my head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 21
Subject(s): Stars


ETCHINGS: 2. PASSAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dark sail
Last Line: The ever-returning stars.
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime


EVENING SONG, by EMMA GERTRUDE JAECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft hovers the twilight o'er field and hill
Last Line: God is watching o'er human weal and woe.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime


EVENING STAR, by ESTHER REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At night
Last Line: Of god.
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Stars; Bedtime


FAIL ME NOT THOU!, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The star may but a meteor be
Last Line: Upon no grave so hush'd as this dark breast of mine.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


FALIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the frost-grown city of falias lit by the falling stars
Last Line: For the old impossible haven 'mid the old auroral fires?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cold; Desire; Grace; Ravens; Stars


FALLING STAR, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a star slide down the sky
Last Line: And then forever to be gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


FALLING STARS, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shepherd, you tell us that our star
Last Line: That falls, and falls, and disappears.
Subject(s): Stars


FALLING STARS, by BAYARD DOMINICK JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whene'er a man commits a sin
Last Line: Bright stars across the skies.
Subject(s): Angels; Sin; Stars


FALLING STARS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The angels on th' eternal thrones
Last Line: That stars are falling in the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Stars


FAMILY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late night %coming back to melbourne
Last Line: And two in the bottomless water
Subject(s): Stars; Universe


FEBRUARY NOCTURNE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: For me there is a secret on the western slope.
Last Line: You who have left my heart pines and the stars?
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): February; Night; Stars; Bedtime


FIELD GUIDE TO THE HEAVENS, by FRANK X. GASPAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight I am speaking in tongues again
Last Line: Every fruit, sleep soundly: surely, verily, nothing will be lost
Subject(s): Heaven; Language; Stars


FIGURE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A poem I keep forgetting to write
Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Stars


FISHERS OF MEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boats are out, and the storm is high
Last Line: Till the nets, o'ercharged, shall break.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Galilee, Palestine; Religion; Sea; Stars; Theology; Ocean


FISHERS OF STARS, by PIERRE REVERDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The word that sings
Last Line: The luminous stars above the liner heading out
Subject(s): Sky; Stars


FLIGHT, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O moon of falling leaf
Last Line: Men fly!
Subject(s): Desire; Flight; Love; Stars; Flying


FOR EVERY STAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For every star a million fell – I found
Last Line: And now it's only snow
Subject(s): Stars


FORGET FEZ, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Algol, mizar
Last Line: Forget fez.
Subject(s): Stars


FOURTH OF JULY, TEXAS, 1956, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night was nothing we knew. We'd never seen
Subject(s): Stars


FRAGMENTS OF THE NIGHT, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How to isolate the fragments of the night
Last Line: Laughing, it distributed great scars on my face
Subject(s): Night; Stars


FRIENDS ON MARS, by EDNA HOWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now we have come into that larger place
Last Line: And go a-neighboring with friends on mars.
Subject(s): Mars (planet); Prophecy & Prophets; Stars


FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children were shouting together
Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight


FULL MOON OF SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On pale velvet, set with gems
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Moon; Spring; Stars


GALAXIES, by WILLIAM WADSWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A yacht at night strung with lights on the black
Last Line: Attentive, and listen: the stars are whistling your theme
Subject(s): Night; Stars


GESTURE, by ELISABETH CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I clamored for a star
Last Line: Lord, let me grow! I prayed.
Subject(s): Dreams; Stars; Nightmares


GHOST STARS, by MADELEINE AARON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night thick with stars! The word infinity
Last Line: "and proudly call them: ""deathless as a star."
Subject(s): Stars


GIVE PLACE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Starry crowns of heaven
Last Line: Waits to fill your place!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Nature; Stars; Winter


GLASSY SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As you see each of the stars has a voice
Last Line: To the beginning but not beyond it
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Sea; Stars


GLAUCOMYS VOLANS, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night on the front porch, with drinks and cigarettes
Last Line: Then a dark star falling through gray unending sky
Subject(s): Night; Squirrels; Stars


GOLD STAR, by TERRI HOOVER DUNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the second
Last Line: You are my shining gold star
Subject(s): Stars


GRACE DARLING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take, o star of all our seas, from not an alien hand
Last Line: While the sea that spared thee girds and glorifies the land.
Subject(s): Death; Grace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean


HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I count the morning
Last Line: Riverdark with sound
Subject(s): Stars


HARBOUR STARS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer stars are great and low and still
Last Line: The roadstead wind that calls us out once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Stars; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


HAY IN THE LOFT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leaks a few stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Hay And Haymaking; Nature; Night; Roofing And Roofers; Stars


HEAVEN AND EARTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It may be true the stars are worlds
Last Line: Down in one little wayside pool.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Heaven; Sky; Stars; Paradise


HEAVEN'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Visions of bethlehem come to me
Last Line: Brought down from heaven by angel's wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Carols; Heaven; Singing & Singers; Stars; Paradise; Songs


HER LIGHT CUITAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She twankled a tune on her light
Last Line: Rippled in glee up my spell-bound spine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Roses; Stars


HERO-WORSHIP, by ELVA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My star is brighter now than when my eyes
Last Line: But, oh, my star is beautiful tonight!
Subject(s): Hero-worship; Stars


HESPERUS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the street the last late hansoms go
Last Line: Who house within that bosom, and am dreamed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime


HORIZON, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: To pass the aging horizon
Last Line: Your were so beautiful %that I learned to sing
Subject(s): Dreams; Sky; Stars


HOROSCOPE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So you believe, bastard child
Last Line: May be that interlocking of our souls with the stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Planets; Stars; Zodiac


HOW CLEAR SHE SHINES, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How clear she shines! How quietly
Last Line: And death, the despot of the whole!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Stars; Hate


HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad and solemn night
Last Line: The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.
Subject(s): Stars


HYMN TO THE STARS, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stars that are suns to myriad millions of bepeopled spheres
Subject(s): Stars; Universe


I HAVE SEEN THE STARS AGAIN, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Set me hill-high looking northward
Last Line: I have seen the stars again.
Subject(s): Stars


I KNOW THE STARS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know the stars by their names
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars; Love - Complaints


I LOOK INTO THE STARS, by JANE DRAPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stars have ways I do not know
Last Line: And all life never has been, lives.
Subject(s): Stars


I THINK I'D LIKE YOU BETTER, STAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: If you were only not so far
Subject(s): Stars


I TOUCHED A STAR, by ELINOR KETTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tonight the heavens nearly touched the earth
Last Line: For atlas, that would not have been so very hard.
Subject(s): Stars


I WOULD NOT LIFT THY VEIL, by A. LOUISE ASHWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hugged the great body of the night close to me, then closer
Last Line: The veil is thine -- I would not, if I could.
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime


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


IN AND OUT OF THE PINE-WOOD; A SIMILE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the pine-wood all looked bright and clear
Last Line: Our stars are carried out, and vanish not!
Subject(s): Metaphor; Stars; Similes


IN BETHLEHEM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back to-day to bethlehem
Last Line: Where yet the angels are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Stars; Nativity, The


IN THE SHADOWS: 25, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying awake at holy eventide
Last Line: Like music, with a dying, dying fall!
Subject(s): Stars


IN THE SHAPE OF A STAR, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched you lift your arms toward the culmination of the
Last Line: Positioned curiously in the shape of a star
Subject(s): Stars


IN THE TRAIN, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the window I see a dozen great stars, burning bright
Last Line: Shall the white stars wheel in their reverie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Railroads; Stars; Railways; Trains


INTELLECT: 1, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is night the excuse for such a star?
Last Line: That darkest are?
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Night; Reason; Stars; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


INTO SPACE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the sad old world should jump a cog
Last Line: While the stars looked on and wondered?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Stars; Sun; World


INVISIBLE SPECTRUM, by JULIET KAUFMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alpha centauri is a yellow star. There are
Last Line: Zeal or passion, looking earthward without comment
Subject(s): Stars


IOTIS DYING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two hours before the dawning
Last Line: "and sheep-bells gaily jingling, as the white flock moves along"
Subject(s): Death;enemies;stars; "dead, The;


IRRECONCILIATION, by FRANCES BROWN (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tonight the moon hangs low, low
Last Line: And shelter for us!
Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean


IT ISN'T ONLY FLAKES THAT FALL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: It isn't only flakes that fall
Subject(s): Snow; Stars; Flowers


IT'S FAST THEY GO, by CORAL MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's fast they go and very fast
Last Line: But it's lonesome as hell they are.
Subject(s): Flags; Stars; Wandering & Wanderers


JUST DOING IT!, by CARL STILLWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When it comes %to getting endorsements
Last Line: Nike - %they just do it!
Subject(s): Business; Stars


LAST SONNET (ORIGINAL VERSION), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright star! Would I were stedfast as thou art!
Last Line: Half-passionless, and so swoon on to death
Variant Title(s): Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Ar
Subject(s): Love; Stars


LAST SONNET (REVISED VERSION), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art
Last Line: And so live ever -- or else swoon to death.
Variant Title(s): "sonnet Composed On Leaving England;sonnet Written On A Blank Page;sonnet On 'a Lover's Complaint';bright Star;keats's Last Sonnet;""bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art"";sonnet: Bright Star;
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Stars


LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 9, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star sirius and the pole star dwell afar
Last Line: Mayhap they talk together without speech.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Stars


LAWS OF GRAVITY, by AMY SCATTERGOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: First the sky fell down in parachutes
Last Line: Onto the stone tablet ground
Subject(s): Moon; Sky; Space And Space Travel; Stars


LET ZEUS RECORD: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare
Last Line: To freighted ships, baffled in wind and blast
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): North Sta
Subject(s): Bible; Stars


LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All in the dark we grope along
Last Line: Which led us to the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Life; Sea; Soul; Stars; Universe; Ocean


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A MAZE OF SPARKS OF GOLD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring -- the rain goes by, the stars
Last Line: Under the bright wasting stars
Subject(s): Love; Stars


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out %to watch the christmas eve crowds
Last Line: Abstractions of the rascals %hwo live by killing you and me
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love; Stars


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE HEART OF HERAKLES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying under the stars
Last Line: Have an eye that sees itself
Subject(s): Love; Stars


LIKE WARMED, VAGUE STARS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunken objects in the tidal flat
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Stars


LILIES: 9. BENEATH LOFTIER STARS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes! Now indeed we meet 'neath loftier stars
Last Line: The unknown immortal soul-caressing air.
Subject(s): Stars


LION NAMED PASSION, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hungering on the gray plain of its birth
Last Line: The offal. And new cities raven and distend sight
Subject(s): Stars


LITTLE GIRL AS EARTHQUAKE LIT BY STARS, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is embarrassed by the steadiness
Last Line: You go, no matter how high you climb
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Girls; Imagination; Stars


LOCH TORRIDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn of night more fair than morning rose
Last Line: But came on us hard out of heaven, and alive with the soul of the sea.
Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Night; Stars; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime


LOVE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We two that planets erst had been
Last Line: Revolve about one centre.
Variant Title(s): Friendship
Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Stars


LOVE AND DESIRE, by ELIZABETH CLAMEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Falling up into the sky
Last Line: Until the whole cake rises in the sun!
Subject(s): Sky; Stars


LOVE IS A STAR, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the song I sing for you
Last Line: Here is rest from the sea and hill.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a starred night prince lucifer uprose
Last Line: The army of unalterable law.
Subject(s): Bible; Devil; Religion; Stars; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology


LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass
Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way.
Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 64, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A glittering star is falling
Last Line: The song of the swan died away.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Stars; Swans; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 68, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wheresoe'er I go, there darkles
Last Line: Night primeval, take thy child!
Subject(s): Love; Night; Stars; Bedtime


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars in yonder heavens
Last Line: My own dear mistress's face.
Subject(s): Faces; Stars


LYRIDS, by THOM TAMMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Po li, chinese astronomer, one april night
Last Line: Of the chinese night
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Li Po (701-762); Stars


MARCUS AURELIUS AND EPICTETUS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twin stars, serene and pure
Last Line: Filled the blue heavens with light.
Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Stars


MASSACHUSETTS, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I now recall how very dear
Last Line: No other light -- however far.
Subject(s): Evening; Light; Sky; Stars; Sunset; Twilight


MEDITATION, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wise man
Subject(s): Fireflies; Stars; Glowworms


MEDITATION UNDER STARS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What links are ours with orbs that are
Last Line: Half strange seems earth, and sweeter than her flowers.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Meditation; Night; Stars; Bedtime


MENTANA: FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the time when the stars are grey
Last Line: "give all men heart to be free."
Subject(s): Italy; Nations; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime


METEORITE, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star, that looked so long among the stones
Last Line: Breathe on me still, star, sister
Subject(s): Stars


MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midsummer night, without a moon, but the stars.
Last Line: I am ashamed, I have betrayed my friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): August; Italy; Moon; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime


MILKY WAY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some stars, brightest early, falter
Last Line: You in a tissue-paper boat. Here I come
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars


MIRACLE, by LAURA BENET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miracle's star, too brilliant for the beholding
Last Line: Ride on the fringe of this rainbow while yet there is time.
Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Miracles; Stars; Visually Handicapped


MOCKINGBIRD SUITE: 5. THE STARS, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my lover's
Last Line: Broken glass, cheese, and a knife
Subject(s): Relationships; Stars


MOON-DROWNED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the height of the fete when
Last Line: Purple and gold and ivory!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime


MORNING AND NIGHT BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star and a rosebud white
Last Line: One lost for aye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Stars


MORNING STAR, by IDA MAY BORNCAMP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back of the mountaintops at dawn
Last Line: Stirring my soul with its lyric psalm.
Subject(s): Crystallization; Physics; Stars


MUSE OF THE TENDER NIGHT, by CAL BEDIENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I bolt up in nightmare, I frighten you. I hate you then
Last Line: Love me enough to think of killing me. Then hold me, my little hairpin
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Stars


MY CHILDREN, by HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars-did you ever see stars
Last Line: "yes, madam, to the sea."
Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Stars; Childhood; Relatives


MY LITTLE STAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My little star lives very high
Last Line: This small star I'll love the best
Subject(s): Stars


MY STAR, by INA LADD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once, in the velvet blackness of the night
Last Line: To the glory of that star.
Subject(s): Stars; Sun


MY STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since that the dewdrop holds the star
Last Line: Thou keepest mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Stars


MY WINDOW LOOKS UPON THE SKY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line:
Last Line: My window looking at the sky
Subject(s): Stars


MYRIAD STARS, by JUDITH STEVENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought I saw a thousand stars
Last Line: The dust of stars had cast its spell.
Subject(s): Stars


NAMING WEATHER: NOTES FOR JEAN: 4. TWILIGHT: BLUE END OF THE SPECTRUM, by MARY PINARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: After your wake, the sky was vacant, except for stars
Last Line: How unnamable, jean, how life
Subject(s): Sky; Stars


NATURE RHYMES: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is the star
Last Line: Into a jar
Subject(s): Stars


NEW MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now day / drawing his golden waters down the west
Last Line: From their too youthful wonder in the sea.
Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean


NEW SPRING: 37, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars with golden feet are wand'ring
Last Line: Or the nightingale alone?
Subject(s): Spring; Stars


NIGHT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun was far beyond horizon's bar
Last Line: The blue empyrean forever and forever.
Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Stars; Bedtime; Loneliness


NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars over snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars over snow
Last Line: It never will be far
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


NIGHT FROM A FELLMAN WINDOW, by SIDNEY DRAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My quivering square of glass
Last Line: And, all the night, the stars!
Subject(s): Railroads; Stars; Railways; Trains


NIGHT IN THE VALLEY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always like to keep %some sesame seeds
Last Line: The close, the far. %I eat the stars
Subject(s): Memory; Night; Stars


NIGHT OF SHADOWS, by CHARLES GUERIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night of shadows, tragic, helpless night!
Last Line: The sleep of the conquered and the sleep of the dead.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew the stars would come
Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on!
Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece!
Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . .
Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks


NIGHT ON THE VERANDAH, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Certain redskins believe that the souls
Last Line: The night is so calm that it seems to me embalmed
Subject(s): Night; Stars


NIGHT VOYAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no climate for stars. But upon earth
Last Line: On a necessitous planet? Can the stars answer?
Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


NINETEEN OLD POEMS OF THE HAN: 10, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far far away, the herdboy star
Last Line: Only the span of a single brimming stream - %they gaze and gaze and cannot speak
Subject(s): Stars


NO STARS TONIGHT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No stars tonight, no moon
Last Line: Without the stars
Subject(s): Stars


NOCTIFLORA, by MAURICE LESEMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I favor most in flowers the shyest ones
Subject(s): Stars


NOVA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That nova was a moderate star like our good sun
Subject(s): Stars


NOVA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That nova was a moderate star like our good sun
Last Line: Is the face of god, to live gladly in its presence, and die without grief or fear knowing it survive
Subject(s): Stars


O YE SWEET HEAVENS!, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As I, o pleiades! Your beauty scan?
Subject(s): Stars


O-TSUYA FORSAKEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I followed. In the tea-house geisha danced the death
Last Line: Shall he be mine in no reincarnation?
Subject(s): Death; Japan; Love; Loyalty; Stars; Dead, The; Japanese


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


OFTEN, WHEN AT NIGHT DELAYING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lighted by the moon, away
Subject(s): Stars


OH STARS IN HEAVEN THAT FADE AND FLAME, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A year, a year ago
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Love – Lost; Stars


ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns
Last Line: His glory fills the air.
Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful star, that art wandering through
Last Line: An early grave, and a broken heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Stars


ON NIGHT, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now murky shades surround the pole; / darkness lords without controul
Last Line: That fall upon the drooping yews.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Stars; Supernatural; Bedtime


ON PONKAWTASSET, SINCE, WE TOOK OUR WAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round?
Subject(s): Travel; Stars


ON THE MORNING STAR, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rim of the heavens bared, and on its step
Last Line: He were not the god that strikes but sends his healing words on down
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Stars


ON THE PONT AU CHANGE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are selling flowers tonight the pont au change along. The air
Last Line: Fly, my arms with roses piled, her pardon to implore.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Stars


ONE DISTANT STAR, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: One distant star shone from the dark
Last Line: Let it be sunk and added whole to this conflict!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Stars


ORANGE AND SILVER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The wind from siberia
Subject(s): Evening; Siberia; Stars


ORBITS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two stars once on their lonely way
Last Line: As lonely as they are.
Subject(s): Stars


ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face
Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure.
Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs


ORION'S BELT, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Read this by your own light
Last Line: Everything else mostly fades %in the folds of heaven
Subject(s): Night; Orion (constellation); Stars


OUR STARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My twilight is before the dark
Last Line: Let not the noon extinguish thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Stars


OUT OF THE DARKNESS, A STAR, by L. PAUL ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: An eye for an eye,' was the law
Last Line: Felt his own kinship with god.
Subject(s): Stars


OVERTURE, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A plague of stars was overhead
Last Line: "I think we may begin . . . ."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


PASS-A-GRILLE, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright sand, the sea-grape and the saw-palmetto
Last Line: These are scenes we love at pass-a-grille.
Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Villages; Sunrise


PASTURES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are too lost in yesterday, - too dull
Last Line: And flocks for lonely pastures where they wait.
Subject(s): April; Fields; Memory; Stars; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


PEACE, by ADA ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When father time with tender hand
Last Line: From all the world apart.
Subject(s): Peace; Stars


PEACE OF MIND, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the pool were still
Last Line: Bottomless well.
Subject(s): Peace; Soul; Stars


PHAEDO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After midnight mass
Last Line: Sleeping at the foot of the cross
Subject(s): Christmas; Stars; Nativity, The


PHAEDO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After midnight mass
Last Line: Sleeping at the foot of the cross
Subject(s): Christmas; Stars


PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE OBSERVATORY, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty-thousand trillion
Last Line: Into the riddle of becoming
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Stars


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 2. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glowing ruddy sun descends
Last Line: I sorrow no longer.
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Moon; Stars; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


PIXIES AT THE POOL, by RICHARD POMFRET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look below into the pool's
Last Line: And flee at dawn's first light.
Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Water; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime


PLAYING BO-PEEP WITH THE STAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "who are you winking at, bright little star"
Last Line: "ah! Laughed the child, we can both play bo-peep"
Subject(s): Games;stars; Recreation;pastimes;amusements


POET'S DUST AND A STAR, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stript to ash in a white urn
Last Line: At the breast of a mother-sky.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Sky; Stars; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 17. AT TWILIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent plebiscite
Last Line: "voting, ""let there be night."
Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 2. GHOSTLINESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose touch, ancestral, far
Last Line: Like light from a dead star?
Subject(s): Ghosts; Stars; Supernatural


POINT, by APRIL OSSMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The point being how when a star dies
Last Line: Lives on. The point being %that the light disappears
Subject(s): Light; Stars


POKER STAR, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Stars


PORTRAIT IN SINISTER LIGHTS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Doom walks with her
Last Line: And doom will walk with her.
Subject(s): Dunes; Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Stars; Iliad; Odyssey


PRAIRIE STARS, by MINNIE HITE MOODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How many ages have these silent stars
Last Line: These stars shall gild this prairie's diadem!
Subject(s): Prairies; Stars; Plains


PRAIRIE TREMBLANTE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A stretch of swaying grasses that sweep by
Last Line: And lonely bayous answer star to star.
Subject(s): Prairies; Sky; Stars; Plains


PRAYER FOR A BOY WITH A KITE, by DOROTHY P. ALBAUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: If he could only stay a little boy
Last Line: Among the missing is a dreadful thing.
Subject(s): Stars


PROFITS, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, stars were with me formerly
Last Line: Shall stars abide eternally!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Stars


QUATRAIN: THE STARS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These - the bright symbols of man's hope and fame
Last Line: In the vast utterance of the universe.
Subject(s): Stars


RECOLLECTIONS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken
Last Line: Years upon years.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Roundels; Stars; Bedtime


RED RIVER EVENING, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Midge millions in a thousand galaxies hang like dust along the highways
Last Line: And a yellow moon looks slantingly down from sagittarius.
Subject(s): Stars


REFLECTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She reflected that when he'd be a corpse
Last Line: Consider the stars
Subject(s): Death; Stars; Wishes


REQUIEM FOR A CROESUS, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To him the moon was a silver dollar spun
Last Line: With pennies on his eyes.
Subject(s): Moon; Religion; Stars; Sun; Theology


RESIGNATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark house yonder is my life
Last Line: Life's dark intent, joy's fitful glow.
Subject(s): Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


REULLURA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star of the morn and eve
Last Line: And her spirit was in heaven.
Subject(s): Stars


REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints
Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn?
Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


RIDDLE: 13, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always quiet / always creeping
Last Line: In daytime sleeping
Subject(s): Riddles;stars


RIDDLE: 17, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My mother has a sheet
Last Line: To count it is trouble
Subject(s): Riddles;sky;stars


RIJL, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be a child named after a star
Last Line: I'm burning up
Subject(s): Stars


RIVERS, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sleeping earth! What ruthless lover
Last Line: The need of mirrors for the stars?
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Stars; World


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 7. IMPERFECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is perfect in this world of ours
Last Line: A bosom, and a soul within it, fairest!
Subject(s): Mythology; Perfection; Soul; Stars


ROMANTICISM IN DEFENSE, by MARGARET E. PECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars look down - the laughing silent stars
Last Line: Some fools with minds both nebulous and sweet.
Subject(s): Stars


ROSAMUND, SELS., by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To stare without desire, with no
Last Line: Under my very eyes, under your very eyes
Subject(s): Eyes; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: ARIES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bear suspicion
Last Line: On these the world has wheeled
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: CANCER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Multitudes bow to me
Last Line: With the blank stars for sand
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: CAPRICORN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where darkness is
Last Line: Like reeds wailing
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Courts And Courtiers; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: GEMINI, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sinks when I rise
Last Line: On two sides of a tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars; Twins


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: LEO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What greater ravage
Last Line: Whose taste was for rage
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: PISCES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the stars quaver
Last Line: In the eddying sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Fishing And Fishermen; Stars; Water


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: SAGITTARIUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All quarry flees. The arrow
Last Line: Have not let fly, and yet they fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: TAURUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White as a flower
Last Line: I am what is to be
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: VIRGO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not so much as a song
Last Line: Sing out, but I am not there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Singing And Singers; Stars


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 6. NIGHT OF STARS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky immense, bejewelled with rain of stars
Last Line: Crashes down the sky.
Subject(s): Stars


SCHOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stars are children going to school
Last Line: Trying to learn why
Subject(s): Children; Learning; Stars


SEEN IN A GLASS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the stars
Last Line: Assume in nature's glass, in nature's eyes.
Subject(s): Nature; Stars; Trees


SHELTER OF STARS, by HOWARD SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live
Last Line: And wild %as any wind
Subject(s): Stars


SHINING STARS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shine, ye stars of heaven
Last Line: Bids the end arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Stars; Time; Nightmares


SHIPS AND STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As soon as I began to name a star
Last Line: Across the heavens, whose names I will not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Heaven; Stars; Paradise


SHOOTING STAR AT HARVEST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bell softer than silence
Last Line: To live in rapture new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Stars; English


SHOOTING-STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A little porch with roof and sides
Last Line: And thinking of her own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Stars


SHREWSBURY NIGHT, by CHARLES WARE BORDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the stillness of the night
Last Line: The whole world as it ought to be.
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime


SIGNALS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prophet star, the maiden dawn, the sun
Last Line: The prophet star again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 115, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If stars dropped out of heaven
Last Line: Beyond the cloudy bars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Stars


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 120, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do the stars do
Last Line: And do its maker's will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Stars


SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make ready fair lady to night
Last Line: And leave my old daddy asleep.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs


SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind love, to this hour
Last Line: And more blest her eyes that first taught me desire.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs


SKY-HIGH HOUSES, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky-high houses wonder if they are gods
Last Line: Shall we give them the sun, %or blow out the stars?
Subject(s): Future Life; Sky; Stars


SNOW AND STARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grackles sing avant the spring
Subject(s): Grackles; Snow; Stars


SOARING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is a bird to-night
Last Line: Make shudder the trees, lean and bare!
Subject(s): Hearts; Stars; Trees


SONG, by BERYL CASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you loved me
Last Line: And soft birds dying.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs


SONG, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver rose to show
Last Line: Small pools their prisons are.
Subject(s): Stars


SONG AT MORNING, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stars that trembled on the stream
Last Line: The cuckoo calls.
Subject(s): Moon; Stars


SONG BY THE WINDOW BEFORE BED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little star, little star
Last Line: Gone -- all gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime


SONG FOR A MAY NIGHT, by MARJORIE MEEKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heigho! / many mysterious thing I know!
Last Line: Other mysterious things I know!
Subject(s): Stars


SONG OF THE STARS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the radiant morn of creation broke
Last Line: "to the veil of whose brow your lamps are dim."
Subject(s): Stars


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 7. ZERO, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard of heart, winter has frozen the fields
Last Line: One dares not even think of lambs or fawns.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Stars; Winter; Nightmares


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 8. THINGS AT TWILIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is at twilight mostly that things want words
Last Line: And as for clouds, who knows so much of passing?
Subject(s): Evening; Life; Stars; Trees; Sunset; Twilight


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The flush of green that dyed the day
Last Line: I pass into thy spring.
Subject(s): Aging; Change; God; Nature; Night; Spring; Stars; Youth; Bedtime


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 104, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the great stars white and blue
Last Line: When I loosed your zone.
Subject(s): Stars; Moon


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 13, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, love, along the low hills
Last Line: Heed thou love alone!
Subject(s): Stars


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 69, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue opal of a winter noon
Last Line: Have perished one by one!
Subject(s): Winter; Stars


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 6. LOVE AND INFINITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the kindling twilight moon
Last Line: Were you not by!
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Stars; Ocean


SONNET: 12, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As daniel, bird-alone, in that far land
Last Line: To the twin gods of mirthful wine and mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Stars


SONNET: 5, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most lone and loveliest star, in glimmering spheres
Last Line: Of god's rule and man's infidelity!
Subject(s): Stars


SONNET: THE EVENING STAR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! In the painted oriel of the west
Last Line: And from thy darkened window fades the light.
Subject(s): Stars


SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 7. JOHN WEBSTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thunder: the flesh quails, and the soul bows down
Last Line: Shapes here and there of child and mother pass.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Webster, John (1580-1625); Bedtime


SOWER OF STARS, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou shalt pass by, and men will say, 'what pathway
Last Line: Will keep on scattering through life the stars from out the %sky
Subject(s): Death; Night; Shadows; Stars


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 41, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I count the stars of heaven
Last Line: And they are the most fair
Subject(s): Heaven; Sky; Stars


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALONZO CHURCHILL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They laughed at me as 'prof. Moon'
Last Line: Of what the drama means.
Subject(s): Stars


STAIN, SCAR, SKY, by WILLIS FREDERICK OSTRANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I climb into the loose air
Last Line: Halted beneath the rent of stars
Subject(s): Night; Sky; Stars


STAR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The book %and the door
Last Line: Drinking the water of the mirror
Subject(s): Airships; Memory; Stars; War


STAR, by PATRICIA G. ROURKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stars flood the sky at high tide
Last Line: Into the sheer beauty of being %one light in an abraham sky?
Subject(s): Stars


STAR, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When as now I am defeated by love
Last Line: Climbing the subway stairs, someone as yet unknown to you
Subject(s): Stars


STAR, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Last Line: Though I do not know what you are, %twinkle, twinkle, little star
Subject(s): Stars


STAR DUST, by TESSIE IRVINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day is done
Last Line: Shines from afar.
Subject(s): Stars


STAR DUST, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little moon riding on in the dusk of the sky
Last Line: From the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares


STAR DUST, by ELIZABETH S. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep in the mellow afterglow
Last Line: And light.
Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime


STAR OF BETHLEHEM, by FLORENCE VAN CLEVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O star that led the wise men from the east
Last Line: O star that led the wise men from the east!
Subject(s): Christmas; Stars; Nativity, The


STAR OF EVENING, SELECTION, by JAMES M. SAYLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beau-ti-ful star in heav'n so bright
Last Line: Beau—ti—ful, beau—ti—ful star ...
Subject(s): Stars


STAR OF JUNIOR HIGH, by MARTHA KINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: God are we gorgeous
Last Line: Out here in the kingdom of boys %I am the only queen
Subject(s): Schools; Stars


STAR OF THE PENSIVE! MELANCHOLY STAR, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We think that eyes beloved those beauties share!
Subject(s): Stars; Eyes


STAR OF WONDER, STAR OF LIGHT, by BARBARA CROOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's christmas, the year before the accident, when the
Last Line: Their arms full of stars
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Stars


STAR SONG, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are twisted roots that grow
Last Line: At mortal tears and sighs.
Subject(s): Stars


STAR TEACHERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires
Last Line: Are stars and deeps within.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Light; Stars; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


STAR TRACKS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone in bed at night I lie
Last Line: Shine out like stars upon the grass.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Stars


STAR-DANCERS, by CLIFFORD GESSLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rongo told me how, when a boy, he lay
Last Line: Intolerable vision of forbidden peace.
Subject(s): Stars


STAR-FANCIES, by JAMES BUCKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grapes of gold on silver stems
Last Line: Parted from its silver stem!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul
Subject(s): Stars


STAR-GAZER, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty-two years ago (to me if to no one else
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Stars


STAR-GAZER, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty-two years ago (to me if to no one else
Last Line: To run from side to side in a late night train %admiring it and adding noughts in vain
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Stars


STAR-TALK, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you awake, gemelli
Last Line: "and the pump has frozen to-night."
Subject(s): Stars


STARLIGHT, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars / are numberless
Last Line: Believe in it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Hope; Life; Stars; Optimism


STARLIGHT, by PLATO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With two bright eyes, my star, my love
Last Line: With a million eyes to look on thee.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Stars


STARLIGHT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening star will twinkle presently
Last Line: Shall be as constant as its gentle star.
Subject(s): Fidelity; Stars; Faithfulness; Constancy


STARLIGHT DISTILLETH, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree by tree filleth
Last Line: All earth is quiet.
Subject(s): Stars; Beauty; Night


STARRY NIGHT, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I followed in the unfathomable dark
Last Line: That of all things alone will not be gone.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime


STARRY SKY, by CHARLES MARIE PHOTIUS MAURRAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask the heavens your future to impart
Last Line: And to look out upon you through thousands of eyes!
Subject(s): Heaven; Sky; Stars; Paradise


STARRY WEATHER, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though she is dead and I alive
Last Line: In the starry sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by LAURA F. ARMITAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our merry little grace
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flame, o flame, burning bright
Last Line: Fire, fire burn bright!
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How countlessly they congregate
Last Line: Without the gift of sight.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by ULRIC GUTTINGUER    Poem Text                    
First Line: While the silent balmy night
Last Line: You are exiled here below.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden glow is paling
Last Line: And make them glad to-night.
Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight


STARS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air
Last Line: Flashes past the face of god, and is a star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by NAN ROADS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sheet of blue white
Last Line: In the arms of the night.
Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime


STARS, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars that in the shadowy darkness
Last Line: Wherefore shine, if ye be dead?
Subject(s): Absence; Night; Silence; Stars


STARS, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our little earth fares bravely through the night
Last Line: Between the northern and the southern cross.
Subject(s): Constellations; Stars


STARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, upon the field of night
Last Line: To bear the heaven-full harvest, dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Sunrise


STARS, by TAKENAKA IKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over japan there are stars
Last Line: They stretch like a heavy chain
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone in the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk falls and smothers sound and sense
Last Line: From its quiet bush a rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Stars


STARS ABOVE THE SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far away one mystery greets
Last Line: But we can see the stars.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS AROUND THE LUMINOUS MOON - HOW SOON THEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Glamors the landscape...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Stars


STARS AT TALLAPOOSA, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lines are straight and swift between the stars.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS FROM HORIZON TO HORIZON, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just to light the path
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Light; Nature; Stars


STARS OF HOPE, by ELLA ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The grief that comes to weary lives, alone
Last Line: In stars of hope. They'll shine in pools of grief.
Subject(s): Hope; Stars; Optimism


STARS ON THE WATER, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stars on the water, - on my soul, thine eyes
Last Line: To keep thy light unclouded through the days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime


STARS OVER THE DORDOGNE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars their perfection
Last Line: I think it moves around %and no mistake
Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars


STARS WINK AND GO OUT, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars wink and go out
Last Line: For day in a swoon
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, I HAVE SEEN THEM FALL, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And still the sea is salt
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Stars


STARS, SELS., by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Stars


STARS; COMPOSED IN THE DIAMOND MOUNTAINS, by PARK TU-JIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How I have come this far crossing hill after hill!
Last Line: The stars again gather in gorgeous blossoms
Subject(s): Stars


STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A solar system drifting god knows where
Last Line: The race, which speeds a toy balloon, at dawn.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Earth; Mars (planet); Planets; Stars; Universe; World


SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go look around the house corner
Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World


SUICIDE, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor starling. Her cry was sharp enough to draw blood
Last Line: And dizzyingly sang, within her throat %the sigh of the slain, the grunt of the executioner
Subject(s): Stars


SUMMER STARS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bend low again, night of summer stars
Subject(s): Stars; Summer


SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS! MELANCHOLY STAR!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Stars; Grief


SUN OR SATELLITE?, by MARY H. HULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shall we walk by the stars instead of the sun?
Last Line: Love-light, as the compass, is guide night and day.
Subject(s): Light; Love; Stars; Sun


SUNSET FROM OMAHA HOTEL WINDOW, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the blue river hills
Last Line: They circle in a dome over nebraska.
Subject(s): Stars


SUPERLATIVE, by HENRY B. WILKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun one day said to the moon
Last Line: "but the stars no man may count!"
Subject(s): Moon; Stars; Sun


SURPRISING NIGHTS, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no doubt that my life surprises me
Last Line: Under the big sky, under its small glitter
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Night; Planets; Stars


SYMBOLS (2), by VANCE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My palace is of smoke and rain
Last Line: Men mad with dreams, shout to the night.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Stars; Dead, The; Bedtime


T(W)O/O, by JULIE KIZERSHOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boulder spoke to tree, I have never been
Last Line: Stars chatter -- light-hearted -- myriad sparks
Subject(s): Nature; Sky; Stars


TALKING WITH THE CHANTER, by GORDON GRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many stars %have human forms, he whispered
Last Line: The stars around your left eye %are the beginning %of winter
Subject(s): Sky; Stars


TAURUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scorpion's stars crawl down behind the sun
Last Line: To warm my soul with more heroic song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Life; Soul; Stars


THE ANGELS MARVEL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are stars up in the heavens
Last Line: Is his one creature—man.
Subject(s): Angels; Creation; Heaven; Mankind; Stars; Paradise; Human Race


THE BIRTH, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a legend that the love of god
Last Line: A rain of spirit and a dew of song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Stars; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE BLIND ASTRONOMER, by THOMAS ASA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The starry train wend on, their sight unseen
Last Line: Shall mark my way to god's eternity.
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Stars; Galileo Galilei


THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are gleaming
Last Line: Through paths of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake
Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


THE CHILD'S STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The star that watched you in your sleep
Last Line: "when his begins to burn."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Babies; Stars; Infants


THE CHILDREN CLAP THEIR HANDS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The children clap their hands in glee
Last Line: I spy a brand new baby's eyes!
Subject(s): Stars; Children


THE CHOICE OF THE STAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away where space is lonely
Last Line: Bethlehem's star!
Subject(s): Stars


THE CHRIST CHILD, by GRACE E. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A star shone in the east
Last Line: With mary kneeling at his feet.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Stars; Wishes; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The


THE CITY LIGHTS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought the city lights beneath me
Last Line: Scattered around my feet.
Subject(s): Stars


THE CLASSIC TOUCH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are the little things
Last Line: And that town was nothing to me!
Subject(s): Hearts; Hell; Soul; Stars


THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares
Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love.
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World


THE CONSTELLATIONS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O constellations of the early night
Last Line: Their rays might seem but dim, or reach me not.
Subject(s): Stars


THE CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth upon earth / between the confines of the day
Last Line: Felt that he wished to sit and sharpen an arrow
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars; World


THE DARK, TO BE READ TO A CHILD, by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see the first star shine
Last Line: The blessed dark!
Subject(s): Stars


THE DAWN STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feed me, o morning, till the ray
Last Line: Of light's perfection, fade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Sunrise


THE DOME OF STARS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the purple of the night
Last Line: All the forest murmurs low.
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime


THE EASTERN STAR, by MARIE L. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shine thou, o lord; within my heart
Last Line: Beyond death's dark portal, we forever will be.
Subject(s): Stars


THE EDGE OF THE WIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye stars in ye skies seem twinkling
Last Line: And ye crickets cease to sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Light; Stars; Wind


THE EPIC STARS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heroic stars spending themselves
Last Line: Oh happy homer, taking the stars and the gods for granted
Subject(s): Stars; Heroism; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Heroes; Heroines; Iliad; Odyssey


THE EVENING STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, loveliest! That through my casement gleaming
Last Line: Oh, life and earth, what were ye without dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Stars


THE EVIL STAR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The star, after beaming so brightly
Last Line: A virgin death, a fragrant tomb!
Subject(s): Evil; Stars


THE FALLEN STAR, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star is gone! A star is gone!
Last Line: Who fell just now from heaven.
Subject(s): Stars


THE FALLING STAR, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a star slide down the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


THE HARVEST MOON, by MARTHA ST. JOHN DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harvest moon rides in to-night
Last Line: And silver hollyhock.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Orchards; Stars; Wind


THE HAWTHORN BUD AND THE STAR, by EDOUARD SCHURE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hawthorn bud said to the star
Last Line: "-- to love and die within an hour!"
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE HOME-VOYAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear with us, o great captain, if
Last Line: Dip colors as you move to anchorage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Home; Peace; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Dead, The


THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the people and horses have gone
Last Line: It whispers the world-secret.
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails


THE LAST SABBATH LIGHT, by HENRY ROSENBLATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The last lone sabbath candle sheds
Last Line: "and build a star in heaven."
Subject(s): Jews; Light; Sabbath; Stars; Judaism; Sunday


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A MAZE OF SPARKS OF GOLD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring -- the rain goes by, the stars
Last Line: Under the bright wasting stars
Subject(s): Love; Stars


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out / to watch the christmas eve crowds
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Stars


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE HEART OF HERAKLES, by KENNETH REXROTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying under the stars
Last Line: Have an eye that sees itself
Subject(s): Love; Stars


THE LITTLE WOMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little woman, of you I sing
Last Line: So closely here in mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Women


THE LIVING STARS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks the stars are throbbing as they shine
Last Line: Be glad, and shine.
Subject(s): Stars


THE LOST PLEAID, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O! How calm and how beautiful - look at the night!
Last Line: "that the fairest and sweetest was ""not on the ground."
Subject(s): Stars


THE LOST PLEIAD, by ARTHUR REED ROPES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a pretty little maiden
Last Line: As merope or sterope -- I can't recall her name!
Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian
Subject(s): Girls; Pleiades (constellation); Stars; Women


THE LOST STAR, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star was loosed from heaven
Last Line: On the lips of eternal light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Angels; God; Stars


THE MAP MAKERS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man who made a map
Last Line: For it never took twenty years.
Subject(s): Maps; Stars


THE MILKY WAY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening has come; and across the skies
Last Line: Guiding our thoughts to god.
Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Stars; Universe; Sunset; Twilight


THE MILKY WAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once there was a little dream
Last Line: That's hanging up there still.
Subject(s): Cosmology; March (month); Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


THE MOON UPON HER FLUENT ROUTE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As dawn forgets them — now
Subject(s): Moon; Stars


THE MORNING STAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long and weary are the nights,' he said
Last Line: Companioned by the bright and morning star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Stars; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Dead, The


THE MORNING STAR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the black pool of the midnight lu has
Last Line: Where beyond the pearly rampart burned the purer evening star.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Morning Star; Stars


THE NAMING OF MY FAIR, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When night is come and lovers meet
Last Line: And call you -- my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Love; Lutes; Night; Soul; Stars; Bedtime


THE NATIVE STAR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have sailed south to a new light
Last Line: "under his native star!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Stars


THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the old trundle-bed where I
Last Line: Once bowed o'er my own in the old trundle-bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares


THE OLD, OLD WISH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, in some lost mood of
Last Line: "when will my wish come true?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Vision; Wishes; Bedtime


THE POLAR STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A star has left the kindling sky
Last Line: My heart to look for you.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Stars


THE POOL, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What has fallen into my heart
Last Line: Through night's bars.'
Subject(s): Hearts; Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime


THE ROCK, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This rock, too, was a word
Last Line: Your thoughts are your, too; naked let them stand.
Subject(s): Stars; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE SCHOLAR OF THEBET BEN KHORAT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night in arabia. An hour ago
Last Line: It burns his lips to ashes!
Subject(s): Arabs; Astrology & Astrologers; Stars


THE SECRET OF THE STARS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is man's the only throbbing heart that hides
Last Line: "till time and teacups both shall be no more!"
Subject(s): Stars


THE SECRET OF THE STARS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah well! If were so
Last Line: Do thy work, and do it well.
Subject(s): Secrets; Sky; Soul; Stars


THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BEATTIE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet minstrel! From thy hermit's cell
Last Line: Thy harp is tuned to numbers glowing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Stars; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


THE SHEPHERD OF THE STARS, by ELLA COLTER JOHNSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the silent fields of night
Last Line: Gathering in his stars.
Subject(s): Stars


THE SHOES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a pair of new shoes
Last Line: "they are nice. They have low heels."
Subject(s): Shoes; Soul; Stars; Tears; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SINGING SILENCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: While the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory
Last Line: Come: the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory!
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime


THE SONG OF THE STAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a star dwelling on high
Last Line: In the azure light of infinity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Life; Love; Stars


THE SONG OF THE STARS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In those high heavens, wherein the fair stars flower
Last Line: The waking rapture, and the fair, far place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a certain god
Last Line: "and what shall I do?"
Subject(s): Love; Stars


THE STAR, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Last Line: How I wonder what you are.
Variant Title(s): Twinkle, Twinkle
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a star to sing by, a beautiful star that led
Last Line: Then I lifted my eyes in my triumph. Night! Night! And my star was gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Socialism; Stars


THE STAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a dreamer, I saw a poet
Last Line: "there it sung loud and sweet ""come, follow me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Stars; War; Dead, The


THE STAR, by JANE TAYLOR                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white star born in the evening glow
Last Line: In a bit of floating cloud like lace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR AND THE WATER LILY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun stepped down from his golden throne
Last Line: And sank in the stormy tide.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Stars


THE STAR OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It dwells not in the skies
Last Line: My star of beauty!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hell; Love; Stars


THE STAR OF CALVARY, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the same infrequent star
Last Line: "they know not what they do!"
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many a mighty ship
Last Line: Star of the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean


THE STAR SHOWER; NOVEMBER 14, 1866, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! To raise a mighty shout
Last Line: To shine as stars of god forever -- evermore!
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR SIRIUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright sirius! That when orion pales
Last Line: Has viewed and felt them sweep her as a lyre.
Subject(s): Mythology; Stars; Sun


THE STAR TO THE WATCHER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell! I may not meet thee till the day
Last Line: "for lovers, shade."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR-SONG: A CAROL TO THE KING, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell us, thou clear [cleere] and heavenly tongue
Last Line: Wee'l chuse him king, and make his mother queen.
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR-SPLITTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know orion always comes up sideways.
Last Line: How different from the way it ever stood?
Subject(s): Stars


THE STAR-SPLITTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know orion always comes up sideways.
Last Line: How different from the way it ever stood?
Subject(s): Stars


THE STARRY HEIGHTS, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At this dark pass we part, our ways divide
Last Line: Of joy is there to cloud a happy face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Sky; Stars


THE STARS, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye stars! Bright legions that,before all time
Last Line: Twas on that arch, graved on that brazen talisman.
Subject(s): Stars


THE STARS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No cloud obscures the summer sky
Last Line: Is still, in mercy, turned on thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Stars


THE STARS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do they shine so brightly if not to be themselves
Last Line: Because it is in me to change.
Subject(s): Self-reliance; Stars


THE STARS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make friendship with the stars
Last Line: Ascend to him, from whom its essence came.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The


THE STARS AND YOU, by ETHEL A. WOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw you in the fragrance of the stars
Last Line: Held me on that april day.
Subject(s): Stars


THE STARS ARE BLINKING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars are blinking in the skies
Last Line: O let's be good and make them glad!
Subject(s): Stars


THE STARS ARE MANSIONS BUILT BY NATURE'S HAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Stars


THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars their perfection
Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars; Sleeplessness


THE STARS WENT OUT, by RENE GHIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars went out at dead of night
Last Line: My twenty years, and me.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Stars; Dead, The


THE STARS' ACCUSAL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How can the makers of unrighteous wars
Last Line: Through these our sufferings we learn thy will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): God; Social Protest; Stars; War


THE STARS; SESTINA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars in the sky, fold upon fold of stars!
Last Line: Nought in the abyss, nor ought in the endless years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Stars


THE TWO STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Day has her star, as well as night
Last Line: That earth receives its dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Day; Night; Stars; Bedtime


THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The real is not what happens but what is
Last Line: Only the stars, which do not know, can tell
Subject(s): North Pole; Stars


THE UNWILLING GYPSY, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wide green earth is mine in which to wander
Last Line: The light of home!
Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight


THE WATER SPIRIT'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silent hour of even
Last Line: And with her till morn dwell joyously.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Singing & Singers; Stars; Water; Ocean


THE WHITE CANE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: He jostled her a little in the crowd
Last Line: "the last I saw was stars at meuse-argonne!"
Subject(s): Stars


THE WIND'S WORD, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star that I love, / the sea, and I
Last Line: All these did he have -- and he is dead.'
Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean


THE WISE STARS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowerets sweet are crush'd by the feet
Last Line: In safe and endless existence.
Subject(s): Stars


THE WORLD OF THE PERFECT TEAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire from a fixed star
Last Line: To raise the living up
Subject(s): Arks; Brothers; Death; Noah (bible); Stars; Half-brothers; Dead, The


THE WORLD; THE LOVERS; FALLING STARS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peaked in an immortal flame
Last Line: Lingers when a star was there
Subject(s): Fire; Love; Stars


THERE WILL BE STARS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will be stars over the place forever
Last Line: There will be stars forever, while we sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Stars


THERE'S A STAR IN THE WEST, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a star in the west that shall never go down
Last Line: Of the deeply-stained field of the west.
Subject(s): Stars


THESE LATTER DAYS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take down thy stars, o god! We look not up
Last Line: We read no sign. O god, take down thy stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): God; Greed; Stars; Avarice; Cupidity


THIMBLEISM, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was riding the staten island ferry one evening
Last Line: You'll never get famous and you'll never get rich
Subject(s): Stars; Superstition


THIS BANTAM STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Is this the blackbird's richest song
Last Line: Can match this little bantam star!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs


THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou orb aloft full-dazzling! Thou hot october noon!
Last Line: Prepare my starry nights.
Subject(s): Stars


THOUGHTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think I'd like to live on mars
Last Line: And see the wrong side of the stars.
Subject(s): Children; Cosmology; Imagination; May (month); Planets; Sky; Stars; Childhood; Fancy


THREE WOOD SONGS: 3. CHORALE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The branches of the sky bend grandly in the night wind
Last Line: And splendor endures, and the glory of stars is forever.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Wind; Bedtime


THROUGH DIM EYES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder?
Last Line: Like a grand amen to a minor song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Stars; Summer; Sun; Dead, The


THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gulf in the sky beyond the outermost faintest / mark
Last Line: Our god himself has ventured never as yet so far?
Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Opera Glasses


TO A LADY SITTING IN STARLIGHT, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those stars that drown their lightin two dark lakes
Last Line: To beat a world to sand with every wave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Stars


TO A PERSON TALKING OF 'REAL LIFE', by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so you really hold
Last Line: Go -- find a girl -- and see!
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Fate; Jesus Christ; Life; Stars; Destiny


TO A STAR, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou brightly glittering star of even
Last Line: When this imprisoned soul is free!
Subject(s): Stars


TO A STAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome scene
Last Line: Became enamoured --
Subject(s): Stars


TO A STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the only child awake
Last Line: Bright star, remember me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Stars


TO A STAR SAPPHIRE, by MABEL N. LAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miniature of heavenly jewel, soft clouded
Last Line: A hazy summer's night, in essence, -- you.
Subject(s): Stars


TO DR. JOHN BROWN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the north wind lay the land of old
Last Line: Where rab may lick the hand of marjorie.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


TO HELEN KELLER, by THOMAS NUNAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A rose unfolding in the sun
Last Line: And radiates a light divine.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses; Soul; Stars


TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have to go down / in a deep mine-shaft or a well
Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Stars


TO STARS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, my unrest, and night's tranquillity
Last Line: Our love would do her hurt -- oh, think of that, my stars!
Subject(s): Stars


TO T.H.L., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lament how all my days are fair
Last Line: And ask no heaven, having found a friend.
Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Sea; Stars; Terror; Wind; Ocean


TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening
Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence.
Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy


TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning
Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore.
Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians


TO THE SOUTHERN CROSS AS IT DISAPPEARS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lantern, antipode strung from a foreign
Last Line: Whose first star is the last star that I see
Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Southern Cross; Stars


TRAGEDIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two kinds there are: the one theatric, bold
Last Line: Yet knows the stars shine silvery and high.
Subject(s): Murder; Soul; Stars; Tragedy


TRUSTY AS THE STARS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Makes a world's suspense %perish and rejoice
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1369; Poem: 141
Subject(s): Stars


TWILIGHT AT SEA, by AMELIA B. WELBY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The twilight hours, like birds, flew by
Last Line: And held it trembling there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B.
Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Stars; Ocean


TWILLIGHT WITH STAR, by REZSO KESZTHELYI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glass
Last Line: Fading away without moments
Subject(s): Evening; Stars


TWO, by DON BARKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe we could take a walk.'
Last Line: And as cold as the galaxy
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Stars


TWO SKIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sky above, a sky below
Last Line: Than ever can be the high proud star.
Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Summer


TWO WAYS TO LOOK AT STARS, by STANLEY HANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are %red, green, and gold
Last Line: That's what I get %for cheating on a star
Subject(s): Stars


UNDER GEMINI: 1: AND ONE DOESN'T STIR WITHOUT THE OTHER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That is no star to wish upon its light
Last Line: Which was untouchable, and which was touch
Subject(s): Night; Stars


UNDER GEMINI: 2: A BOY'S ATLAS OF THE HEAVENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I call these constellations by their fames
Last Line: Or to be fooling anyone but you
Subject(s): Constellations; Maps; Names; Stars


UNDER THE STARS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breath of summer stirs the trees
Last Line: Grow lovely in life's afterglow.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Stars; Summer; Upper Classes; Sorrow; Sadness


UNI-VERSE, by BORIS NOVAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light and its night: shapes and their shades, waves and shores- their
Last Line: Universe, an unspeakable rhyme of rhymes, universe, one and only %cosmic verse
Subject(s): Planets; Poetry And Poets; Stars; Travel; Universe


UNREST, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, I should be less scornful
Last Line: Some star-encrusted night.
Subject(s): Stars


UNTIL WE BUILT A CABIN, by AILEEN FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we lived in a city
Last Line: Stars there really are!
Subject(s): Country Life; Stars


USELESS STARS, USELESS BELL!, by JOAN OLIVER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Far-off felucca with invisible sails. %ding, dong!
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Wanderers And Wandering


VICTOR HUGO IN 1877, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the spring-tide sundawn of the year
Last Line: Sees red the bare black ruins of a crime.
Subject(s): Light; Stars


VIGIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should it irk me, the night
Last Line: Dearest, be mine with daybreak!
Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Wind; Bedtime


WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge
Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery!
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime


WAITING - BOTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A star looks down at me
Last Line: "so mean I."
Subject(s): Stars; Time; Transience; Impermanence


WATCHING THE STARS, by NO CHUN-MYUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a tree tilts heavenward
Last Line: We must go ahead watching the stars overhead %though our feet kick dust on the ground
Subject(s): Stars


WE ARE A CRYSTAL ZOO, by JOHN+(3) COTTON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: We make charts for mariners
Subject(s): Riddles; Stars


WE HAVE GONE THROUGH GREAT ROOMS TOGETHER, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when on the dark steel came the roads
Last Line: We can always say we have gone through great rooms together.
Subject(s): Relationships; Stars


WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch
Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes
Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming


WHAT THE STARS SANG IN THE DESERT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke in the desert rude
Last Line: The radiant silence hung.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Stars; Universe


WHERE I A STAR, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were I a star, I would not shine
Last Line: That she was searching heaven for me.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Stars


WHILE STARS REMAIN, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swift world changes. Still from sun to sun
Last Line: Unchanging shine the everlasting stars.
Subject(s): Stars


WHILE STARS THAT WATCH, by ELOUISE E. ENGLISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: He liked to sit before the old fireside
Last Line: His burning embers and the stars that know.
Subject(s): Stars


WHITE DWARF, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, welcome, little star!
Last Line: An antidote to cosmic fright
Subject(s): Stars


WHITE DWARF, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, welcome, little star!
Last Line: An antidote to cosmic flight
Subject(s): Stars


WHITE SACRIFICE, by MILDRED CARTWRIGHT JOBSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not to the distant star that presses white
Last Line: Yielding oblations to unworthy gods.
Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Stars


WILD GEESE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When naked winter on the midnight falls
Last Line: Or spirit choirs dark-flying towards some dawn?
Subject(s): Geese; Stars; Winter


WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness


WINTER STARS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went out at night alone
Last Line: The faithful beauty of the stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Stars; Winter


WOMAN OF PARTS, by BONNIE JACOBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cher %is famous for her hair
Last Line: And voice and brains and legs and hips
Subject(s): Stars; Women


YON LOVELY STAR, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon lovely star, that greets our eyes
Last Line: Bright and eternal in the skies.
Subject(s): Sky; Stars


YOUNGSTER AND OLDSTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is she not fair?
Last Line: Is one right, or the other -- or are both?
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Nightmares


ZARAF'S STAR, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking changes as dusk starts to gather
Subject(s): Horses; Stars


ZEILA; A STORY FROM A STAR, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the mystic sidereal spaces
Last Line: And dreamed of that unfallen star.
Subject(s): Stars


ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star
Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine.
Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime