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Subject: HALLEY'S COMET
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COMET WATCH ON INDIAN KEY -- NIGHT OF APRIL 10, 1986, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright splendid head of
Last Line: Spring night in 2062
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by JO ANN CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We'll be dead or very old
Last Line: Of exact transgression %have shown themselves to you
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I envied the muscled arms of the older boys
Last Line: And turn to walk back by flashlight, I am amazed %at how easy it was to let it go
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by JEREMY GAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the sky I saw halley's comet
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by ANNA KIRBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wanderer in the black unknowable
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss murphy in first grade
Last Line: Waiting for the world to end
Subject(s): Halley's Comet; Schools


HALLEY'S COMET, by ROBERT MORGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look there,' she said and pointed
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father saw it back in 1910
Last Line: At that high, silent jet, laying its bright trail %across black combe's black sky?
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by JAIME QUEZADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the summer of 1910 halley's comet
Last Line: Remembering my father's childhood %when a picture was taken of him getting off a horse in 1910
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In that moment I saw nothing
Last Line: I, too, had golden pollen on my cheeks
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by PARKER TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you remember, dad, you were
Last Line: Then pierce %the comet's sky
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET, by W. R. WILKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ninety-year-old james baker says
Last Line: Through the tail of the comet
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEY'S COMET FROM THE WEST COAST, MARCH, 22, 1986, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the promentory we could hear the dark
Last Line: With just such a first and last long look out
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


HALLEYS COMET, by DEBBIE WESTBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was born
Last Line: The darkness of my passage %with your late-blooming love
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: HALLEY'S COMET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in your middle years
Last Line: River that flows now in your veins
Subject(s): Halley's Comet; Love


STELLA FLAMMARUM (AN ODE TO HALLEY'S COMET), by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange wanderer out of the deeps
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W.
Subject(s): Halley's Comet


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: HALLEY'S COMET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in your middle years
Last Line: River that flows now in youjr veins
Subject(s): Halley's Comet; Love