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Subject: COMETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW COMET, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maverick of the skies, charging with fiery tail
Last Line: To live and laugh and dream and hope and love by.
Subject(s): Comets; Universe


ACCIDENTAL SEDUCTION, by NIN ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After you leave, I take up watching a stranger in the next apartment build
Last Line: I cans till hear the tiny hiss as the flames sing out
Subject(s): Comets; Love; Seduction


COMET, by EMIL MAKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cast out, amid so many companions
Last Line: And nobody is left behind %and there is no goal to reach
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Comets; Women's Rights


COMET, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spectral, mysterious, flame-like thing
Subject(s): Comets


COMET GHAZAL, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amidst our troubles, a sudden blessing
Last Line: Our own last-minute plummet in the evening sky
Variant Title(s): Ghazal: Come
Subject(s): Comets; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


COMET HYAKUTAKE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Comet hyakutake's tail stretches for 360 million miles
Subject(s): Comets


COMET HYAKUTAKE, by JANE VARLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that spring my friend was mad
Last Line: Dissolving remnant of something that used to be
Subject(s): Comets; Death


DESIDERATUS MERCIER, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go down, tall priest, to the iron sea
Last Line: Of comets hallowing his name.
Subject(s): Clergy; Comets; God; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


EUROPA: 4. THE POUND, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night, stray comets crossed the azimuth
Last Line: Now kings are hauled like dogfish in the nets
Subject(s): Comets; England; Sky


FIELD GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY: OTHER BODIES, by SUSAN E. WHEATLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meteors exist. They arrive in summer showers
Last Line: If you could touch a comet, it would burn
Subject(s): Comets


HALE-BOPP, by SHARON KOUROUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How this least dot wheels: ice and fire
Last Line: Beyond this little globe, this space we hire
Subject(s): Comets; Space And Space Travel


I PAID A SPRING-TIME VISIT TO YOUR COUNTRY, by JEAN WEST    Poem Source                    
Last Line: As I shall do again one day
Subject(s): Comets; Riddles


LINES ON THE COMET, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trav'ller of th' etherial round
Last Line: With such rapid speed away.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Comets; Universe


NIGHT OF THE COMET, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For weeks the people %watched the comet
Last Line: They were never seen again
Subject(s): Comets; Native Americans; San Francisco


OWEN GLYNDWR'S WAR-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw ye the blazing star?
Last Line: Was glyndwr's path of light!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Comets; Owen Glyndwr (15th Century); Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


SHIP BURNING AND A COMET ALL IN ONE DAY, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the tide was out
Last Line: A great comet appeared in the sky %with a star in its nether tail
Subject(s): Comets


SUMMER OF THE COMET, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring 1997, and the tallest elm at
Last Line: The sky seems imperfect and empty
Subject(s): Comets; Summer


THE COMET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The comet! He is on his way
Last Line: And sweet shall be thy sleep!
Subject(s): Comets


THE COMET, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That love of mine for him had waxen wings
Subject(s): Comets


THE COMET AT YELL'HAM, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It bends far over yell'ham plain
Last Line: On that sweet form of thine.
Subject(s): Comets


THE TWO COMETS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There once dwelt in olympus some notable oddities
Last Line: Think the west is before them, and phaeton driving.
Subject(s): Comets


TO HALLEY'S COMET, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the unknown
Last Line: Your cadence among the spheres?
Subject(s): Comets; Sky


TO THE COMET, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sincerity doth surpass
Last Line: We entreat thee come not near.
Subject(s): Comets


WARNING TO THE COMET HYAKUTAKE ABOUT THE OLAFSEN BROTHERS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At first you were only a smear
Last Line: Conceivably reach you and make trouble
Subject(s): Brothers; Comets


WATCHING THE COMET ON EASTER EVENING, by JAMES SCRUTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, quiet as a tomb
Last Line: For this uncertain, only life
Subject(s): Comets; Easter; Holidays