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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three
Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean


ASTROLOGER'S ADDRESS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fellow citizens all, for whose safety I peep
Last Line: And if none of these happen, 'twill be a great wonder.
Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Planets; Prophecy & Prophets; Stars; Universe


CONJUNCTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Planets in close conjunction only seem
Last Line: Farther apart than midnight star and star.
Subject(s): Planets; Soul; Stars


COSMOGRAPHY, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who even came this way, bellow or saw
Last Line: Sound as it comes. Alkali, snag snag sang %usher liberty
Subject(s): Books; Korea; Language; Planets; Poetry And Poets; Universe; Writing And Writers


DE DIE MARTIS, ET DIE VENERIS; EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturn and sol, and luna chaste
Last Line: Should lose a planet, and the week a day.
Subject(s): Planets


EARTH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Koper defines darkness. Mothballs of circumcision
Last Line: A fugue, and a cantilena are the same: utter bliss
Subject(s): Earth; Planets; Travel


ELEGY FOR SEVEN, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside your window, a world hardly more
Last Line: You can go anywhere but %home
Subject(s): Astronauts; Planets; Space And Space Travel; Stars; Universe


FIELD GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY: PLANETS, by SUSAN E. WHEATLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: With the naked eye we can see venus
Last Line: This guide concerns only what you see %from your own field
Subject(s): Planets


FOUR ELEMENTS: EARTH, by BENJAMIN PERET    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is made of water, earth, air and fire and the earth is not
Last Line: The mustache
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Planets


HEAD SKY CONVOY PATTERN; I.M. FRANCO BELTRAMETTI, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit murmur echoes
Last Line: Leaf tip holds dawn's door
Subject(s): Astronauts; Beltrametti, Franco (1937-1995); Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Earth; Planets; Sky; World


HISTORIES: THAT WOBBLE OF LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hereby cluster all day loveliness with flick
Last Line: A fire of your house.
Subject(s): Earth; Planets; World


HOROSCOPE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So you believe, bastard child
Last Line: May be that interlocking of our souls with the stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Planets; Stars; Zodiac


I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, by BERTHAL LANIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In anger I flung out my hand / against the
Last Line: I found I could not understand.
Subject(s): Planets


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: PROTOPLASM OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long ago
Last Line: During an eclipse. I saw it %long ago
Subject(s): Love; Planets


ODE TO THE ASTRONAUTS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O astronauts!
Last Line: You are pushing the bright new shiny buttons of your machine!
Subject(s): Apollo; Astronauts; Mythology - Classical; Planets; Space And Space Travel


OMNISCIENT SCIENCE, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O you, who look up to the stars
Last Line: How is it weighed within what scales?
Subject(s): Planets; Science; Universe; Scientists


ON THE INNER PLANETS, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk at the speed of nightfall west
Last Line: By ghirlandaio or someone, %one of the less well known of the italian masters
Subject(s): Planets


ON WHAT PLANET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uniformly over the whole countryside
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Planets


ON WHAT PLANET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uniformly over the whole countryside
Last Line: On saturn, with the rings and all the moons'
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Planets


PHYSICS OF THE NEW WORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here on the third planet, bulging vaguely like an egg
Last Line: In the thermal energy and simple particles of the cosmic brine
Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Physics; Planets; Universe


PLANETARIUM, by JOHN DUFFRESNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib
Last Line: Emerging in my first words; like children, %they lit up at the names they were given
Subject(s): Planets


PLANETS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Together in bed, they're planets apart
Last Line: He's chatting with mars.
Subject(s): Planets; Relationships


PLANETS, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd step out with grandpa surmont from the back door of his frame
Last Line: Many homes and lost the positions of the planets. But this is my %small, blue letter to you
Subject(s): Planets


PROLOGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shine forth, ye planets, with distinguished light
Last Line: Virtue was taught in verse, and athens' glory rose.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Planets; War


SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound
Last Line: Oh love --
Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism


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


SATURNALIA, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest calm man e'er beheld
Last Line: The union ever one!
Subject(s): Peace; Planets; United States; War; America


STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stop to think-the earth
Last Line: The earth has not been %till then
Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe


STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A solar system drifting god knows where
Last Line: The race, which speeds a toy balloon, at dawn.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Earth; Mars (planet); Planets; Stars; Universe; World


SURPRISING NIGHTS, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no doubt that my life surprises me
Last Line: Under the big sky, under its small glitter
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Night; Planets; Stars


THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares
Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love.
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World


THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND VENUS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not always reason. The straight path
Last Line: For thee, a terrible deliverance.
Variant Title(s): Those Glorious Stars
Subject(s): Planets


THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM, by THOMAS CHATTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun revolving on his axis turns
Last Line: Now more admir'd in being understood.
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Planets


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: PROTOPLASM OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long ago
Subject(s): Love; Planets


THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed
Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World


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


THE PLANET, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the center of the sea of tranquility
Last Line: Shining and shining
Subject(s): Planets


THE ROSE OF STARS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When love, our great immortal, / put on mortality
Last Line: Hail earth, the rose of stars.
Subject(s): Love; Planets


THIS SPRING, MERCURY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Illimitable ocean
Subject(s): Planets


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


TICK-TICK, TICK-TICK, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky all dark, clear
Last Line: On all the planets, here too -- in the wolves, the swans, %in the giraffes grazing high in the trees
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Earth; Planets; Shadows; Universe


UNI-VERSE, by BORIS NOVAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light and its night: shapes and their shades, waves and shores- their
Last Line: Universe, an unspeakable rhyme of rhymes, universe, one and only %cosmic verse
Subject(s): Planets; Poetry And Poets; Stars; Travel; Universe


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FOURTH CANTO, OR LAST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moone's bright throne by mulciber was built
Last Line: Declare her best effects to be in you.
Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Planets; Women; Zodiac


VIOLIN SONGS: A PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who mad'st the mighty clock
Last Line: Make my willing true.
Subject(s): God; Planets; Prayer; Time