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Subject: GALILEO (1564-1642)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGE OF DISCOVERY, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the 182nd day of the 34th year
Subject(s): Knowledge; Galileo (1564-1642); Galileo Galilei


GALILEO, by JAN CONN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In florence I stood on a narrow cobblestone street
Last Line: Florence, I, like galileo, heard, or imagined I heard, %them sing
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Galileo (1564-1642)


GALILEO AND THE LAWS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Galileo thought he saw
Last Line: Galileo thought he saw?
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642)


GALILEO BEFORE THE INQUISITION, by MARGARET JUNKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why wrapped he not a martyr's robe
Last Line: Of truth's diviner star!
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Inquisition; Galileo Galilei


GALILEO'S CASE REOPENED (1564-1642), by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lie still, son galileo, while we crack
Last Line: Your brain flowers like a solar model.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Galileo Galilei


I REMEMBER GALILEO, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember galileo describing the mind
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Squirrels; Paper; Galileo Galilei


LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest
Last Line: . . . . . .
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este


PORTRAIT OF GALILEO AS A YOUNG MAN, by GEORGE KEITHLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the pit of his being sits an obese belligerent boy
Last Line: One night - soon - he will train them on the skies
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Science


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 CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory
Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei


TIME INTO WATER, by AMANDA SCHAFFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he had been born earlier, galileo
Last Line: Publishing the dry weight of a patient's heart
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Medicine


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