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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STARS Matches Found: 649 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: Beautiful, beautiful 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 creatureman. 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 |
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