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Subject: TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1931, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear louis: / the telescope has come and I am charmed
Last Line: I need nobody else's art, I hope
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977); Opera Glasses


MY FATHER'S TELESCOPE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oldest joke
Last Line: In oak
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


STAIRWELL, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The telescope's a microscope
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


TELESCOPE, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light projected lifetimes ago
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


THE MOTHER AT THE TELESCOPE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the moons of jupiter!
Last Line: Seen with these kitchen-gazing eyes!
Subject(s): Jupiter (planet); Moon; Sky; Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gulf in the sky beyond the outermost faintest / mark
Last Line: Our god himself has ventured never as yet so far?
Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Opera Glasses


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to you o moon
Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses