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Subject: SPACE & SPACE TRAVEL
Matches Found: 16

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPEARANCES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a sky of stars and no moon
Last Line: As the light behind the stars.
Subject(s): Aliens; Fear; Space & Space Travel; Universe; Extraterrestrials; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


BUT OUTER SPACE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than populous
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel


DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First a monkey, then a man
Last Line: Just the way the world began
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


DISTANCES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just where that star above
Last Line: Beyond that star, beyond!
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Soul; Time; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away
Last Line: Somewhere, some time?
Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


ELSEWHERE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The delectable names of harsh places
Subject(s): Names; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 33. LOVE KEEPS ALL THINGS IN ORDER, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How does this vast machine with order move
Last Line: The glorious frame would drop about our ears.
Subject(s): Love; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


MESSAGES, by RUTH STONE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of grazing cattle, / this range is heavy with tires
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


MOON GATHERING, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And they will gather by the well
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


SCIENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million globes awhirl in unlit space
Last Line: At last, the meaning of the master-mind.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Science; Space & Space Travel; Truth; Vision; Belief; Creed; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


SONNET, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeping sister of a farther sky
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel;conduct Of Life; Body, Human; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


THE MULTIVERSE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a ship, in sinking, sucks whatever flotsam
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


THE REAL TRAVELERS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was supposed to snow, but it rained
Last Line: The real travelers etting out for mars
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Neighbors; Journeys; Trips


TIME SPACE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the universe I crawl
Last Line: And time a dream. . . .
Subject(s): God; Metaphysics; Space & Space Travel; Time; Universe; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


TOWARD SPACE, by SARA BARD FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clutch the granite earth
Last Line: In spiral flight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


YELLOW STARS AND ICE, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds
Subject(s): Relationships; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension