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Subject: CONSTELLATIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONJUNCTIONS, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cold dome of the college observatory
Last Line: In the brief blaze of my headlights %just like that - and still running
Subject(s): Constellations


CONSTELLATION, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange that the nature of light
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Constellations


CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who oversees this congregation, this collect of caws, this clamor of rooks
Last Line: Western hills. The sun all haze. Read the poems of my teachers and go %back to bed
Subject(s): Autumn; Constellations; Seasons


CYGNUS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persons reminded me of birds, a boy
Last Line: All that unripe, within reach
Subject(s): Constellations; Legends


FIELD GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY: CONSTELLATIONS, by SUSAN E. WHEATLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They do not really exist
Last Line: As you seek more from the heavens %than meets the eye
Subject(s): Constellations


FROM THE LEGEND OF HARTFORD, by ELEANOR O'ROURKE KOENIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three hundred years... They come back spirit-wise
Last Line: The strong bent of our spirits move us thither.
Subject(s): Constellations; Spiritual Life


GLOBE IN CAROLINA, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth spins to my fingertips and
Last Line: Listening to that lonesome whistle blow
Variant Title(s): The Globe In North Carolin
Subject(s): Constellations


GREAT BEAR, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even on clear nights, lead the most supple children
Last Line: Even, to have it there (such a great bear! %all hung with stars!), there still would be no bear
Subject(s): Constellations


GREAT BEAR IN THE TINGLING SKY, by PAUL GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Constellations


LA BAGAREDE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take the dogs into
Subject(s): Constellations; France


LA BAGAREDE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take the dogs into
Last Line: At having love who dies - is shining
Subject(s): Constellations; France


NIGHT SKY-UNSTRUNG, by ANNIE FARNSWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've seen those diagrams of the constellations
Last Line: Between your heart %and mine?
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Constellations; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Sky


ON LOOKING UP BY CHANCE AT THE CONSTELLATIONS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You'll wait a long, long time for anything much
Last Line: That calm seems certainly safe to last to-night
Subject(s): Constellations


ON LOOKING UP BY CHANCE AT THE CONSTELLATIONS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You'll wait a long, long time for anything much
Last Line: That calm seems certainly safe to last tonight
Subject(s): Constellations


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


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


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


SWEENEY AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apeneck sweeney spreads his knees
Last Line: To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Constellations; Decay; Mythology; Rot; Decadence


THE CHILD READS THE ALMANAC, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near her egg-basket, the child is reading the almanac
Last Line: They're weighing coffee, salt, and consciences.
Subject(s): Almanacs; Books; Constellations; Markets; Zodiac; Reading; Supermarkets


THE CONSTELLATION, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, ordered lights (whose motion without noise
Last Line: And say, where god is, all agree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Constellations


THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who oversees this congregation, this collect of caws, this clamor of rooks
Subject(s): Autumn; Constellations; Seasons; Fall


THE CROSS OF THE SOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silence and grandeur of midnight
Last Line: Soar high o'er the andes to mingle with thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Constellations; Southern Hemisphere


THE GLOBE IN CAROLINA, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth spins to my fingertips and
Variant Title(s): The Globe In North Carolina
Subject(s): Constellations


THE GREAT BEAR, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even on clear nights, lead the most supple children
Subject(s): Constellations


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