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Subject: COSMOLOGY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COSMIC HISTORY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come then, poor worm at war with fate
Last Line: Drives in the night the iron hail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Cosmology


A COSMIC OUTLOOK, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Backward! - beyond this momentary woe!
Last Line: And these are god, and thou thyself art they.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Cosmology


BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got
Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips


COSMOLOGY: WITHIN THE MIND OF THE SLEEPING GOD, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest time in love with living
Subject(s): Cosmology


COSMOLOGY: WITHIN THE MIND OF THE SLEEPING GOD, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest time in love with living
Last Line: Which will someday be planets
Subject(s): Cosmology


COSMOS, by LILLIAN CRELLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: One morning I sat at my window at dawn
Last Line: God's whisper of love through all life's long way.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Nature; Sight


DAY AND NIGHT: HOW THEY CAME TO BE, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In those times %when just saying a word
Last Line: Following the daytime of the hare
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


EARTH AND THE PEOPLE, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth was here before the people
Last Line: But we know our land is not the whole world
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


EYE REFLECTING THE GOLD OF FALL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silver is the ruby's faded glare
Last Line: Banging like grain like the door against ice air
Subject(s): Autumn; Cosmology; Seasons; Travel; Weather


MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the very earliest time
Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was
Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology


SATURN THROUGH A TELESCOPE, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like pilgrims we came, from our separate spaces
Last Line: A votive in the cavernous dark
Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Saturn (planet); Telescopes And Binoculars; Universe


SUN AND MOON, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A brother and sister had been very wicked
Last Line: Because his torch no longer burns
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


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 NEW PLANET, by EDWARD GRUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas there before man learned to watch the skies
Last Line: And our new neighbor's staggering distance span.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Soul; Spiritual Life


THINGS IN THE SKY, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weather with its storms and snows
Last Line: Of the lovely colored light in the sky
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


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


THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once in a time of hunger
Last Line: That thunder and lightning could be %very dangerous indeed
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 1. COPERNICUS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The neighbours gossiped idly at the door
Last Line: "in that pure realm whose darkness is our peace."
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Cosmology


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 2. TYCHO BRAHE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They thought him a magician, tycho brahe
Last Line: "for I am ready, ready now, to fall.'"
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601); Cosmology


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 3. KEPLER, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John kepler, from the chimney corner, watched
Last Line: "ducklings and peas and all. Come, john, say grace."
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Cosmology; Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 4. GALILEO, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend, my dearest friend, my own dear love
Last Line: "into the great new realm I must not tread."
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Cosmology; Galileo (1564-1642); Galileo Galilei


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 5. NEWTON, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I saw farther, 'twas because I stood
Last Line: We must await a mightier age to come.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)


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


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


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: EPILOGUE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more upon the mountain's lonely height
Last Line: And, through thy law, thy light still visiteth him.
Subject(s): Cosmology


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: PROLOGUE. THE OBSERVATORY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon, upon the mountain's purple height
Last Line: Into the great new realm I must not tread.
Subject(s): Cosmology