Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Outer Space: 100 Poems
- 1 Collected songs from the ballad-mistress
- 2 Psalm 8: For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
- 3 From The Iliad, Book XVIII
- 4 Sappho 34
- 5 From De rerum natura, Book 2
- 6 From Carmina, 66
- 7 From Georgics, Book 4
- 8 Subhasitaratnakosha 905
- 9 Full Moon
- 10 From “The Old English Phoenix”
- 11 From Inferno: Canto XXVI
- 12 I saw the green fields of the sky …
- 13 From The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
- 14 Those Who Build Houses and Temples
- 15 Love the Light Giver
- 16 Urania
- 17 From “Epithalamion”
- 18 Astrophil and Stella: 31 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies
- 19 From The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Scene 6
- 20 From Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
- 21 From “The Anatomy of the World”
- 22 Cynthia’s Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
- 23 From Paradise Lost, Book X
- 24 From The Song of the Three Children, Paraphras’d
- 25 On the incomparable Isaac Newton
- 26 On a Survey of the Heavens
- 27 From “A Summer Evening’s Meditation”
- 28 Threatening Signs
- 29 On Imagination
- 30 To the Evening Star
- 31 Sonnet to the Moon
- 32 Star-gazers
- 33 Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon
- 34 To the Moon
- 35 The Constellations
- 36 On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- 37 Winter Morning
- 38 From “Song of Nature”
- 39 From A Drama of Exile, Scene 3
- 40 The Light of Stars
- 41 From “Al Aaraaf”
- 42 From “Timbuctoo”
- 43 Love
- 44 When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- 45 Sorrows of the Moon
- 46 The Philosopher and the Stars
- 47 A Grain of Sand
- 48 To a Star Seen at Twilight
- 49 Emigravit
- 50 The Mother Moon
- 51 I Know Not What I Seek Eternally
- 52 The Old Astronomer
- 53 Waiting Both
- 54 “— I am like a slip of comet”
- 55 A Solar Eclipse
- 56 Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall
- 57 Earth
- 58 Starlight
- 59 The Cat and the Moon
- 60 Alfonso Churchill
- 61 To Halley’s Comet
- 62 A Song of a Navajo Weaver
- 63 A Starry Night
- 64 The Star-Splitter
- 65 Stars
- 66 The Song of the Stars
- 67 A Song of the Moon
- 68 From “Renascence”
- 69 Ballad of the Moon, Moon
- 70 Chant
- 71 Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis
- 72 The First Men on Mercury
- 73 In the Field
- 74 High Flight
- 75 Delay
- 76 Ladder to the Moon
- 77 For My Great-Great Grandson the Space Pioneer/Para Mi Tataranieto el Astropionero
- 78 Eclipse
- 79 Galaxies
- 80 The Ballet of the Eight-Week Kittens
- 81 Rainy Eclipse
- 82 Flammarion Woodcut Pilgrim Redux
- 83 The Loneliest Road
- 84 The Magician’s Bashful Daughter
- 85 Olber’s Paradox
- 86 January 22, 2003, OR The Day Nasa Sent Its Last Official Signal To Pioneer 10
- 87 Zero Gravity: A Space Requiem
- 88 3 Nights of the Perseids
- 89 Carnal Knowledge
- 90 Fermi’s Paradox
- 91 Here now the Sun: a poem for Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space
- 92 Space Journal: Serendipity
- 93 Sergei Krikalev on the Space Station Mir
- 94 My Father’s Kites
- 95 C. E.
- 96 On the Nearest Pass of Mars in 60,000 Years
- 97 Dr. Rendezvous Takes Communion on the Moon
- 98 From “My God, It’s Full of Stars”
- 99 Relativity
- 100 Included by NASA in a July 2021 Mission to Jupiter
- Acknowledgments
- Biographies
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from Outer Space: 100 Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Outer Space: 100 Poems
- 1 Collected songs from the ballad-mistress
- 2 Psalm 8: For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
- 3 From The Iliad, Book XVIII
- 4 Sappho 34
- 5 From De rerum natura, Book 2
- 6 From Carmina, 66
- 7 From Georgics, Book 4
- 8 Subhasitaratnakosha 905
- 9 Full Moon
- 10 From “The Old English Phoenix”
- 11 From Inferno: Canto XXVI
- 12 I saw the green fields of the sky …
- 13 From The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
- 14 Those Who Build Houses and Temples
- 15 Love the Light Giver
- 16 Urania
- 17 From “Epithalamion”
- 18 Astrophil and Stella: 31 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies
- 19 From The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Scene 6
- 20 From Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
- 21 From “The Anatomy of the World”
- 22 Cynthia’s Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
- 23 From Paradise Lost, Book X
- 24 From The Song of the Three Children, Paraphras’d
- 25 On the incomparable Isaac Newton
- 26 On a Survey of the Heavens
- 27 From “A Summer Evening’s Meditation”
- 28 Threatening Signs
- 29 On Imagination
- 30 To the Evening Star
- 31 Sonnet to the Moon
- 32 Star-gazers
- 33 Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon
- 34 To the Moon
- 35 The Constellations
- 36 On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- 37 Winter Morning
- 38 From “Song of Nature”
- 39 From A Drama of Exile, Scene 3
- 40 The Light of Stars
- 41 From “Al Aaraaf”
- 42 From “Timbuctoo”
- 43 Love
- 44 When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- 45 Sorrows of the Moon
- 46 The Philosopher and the Stars
- 47 A Grain of Sand
- 48 To a Star Seen at Twilight
- 49 Emigravit
- 50 The Mother Moon
- 51 I Know Not What I Seek Eternally
- 52 The Old Astronomer
- 53 Waiting Both
- 54 “— I am like a slip of comet”
- 55 A Solar Eclipse
- 56 Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall
- 57 Earth
- 58 Starlight
- 59 The Cat and the Moon
- 60 Alfonso Churchill
- 61 To Halley’s Comet
- 62 A Song of a Navajo Weaver
- 63 A Starry Night
- 64 The Star-Splitter
- 65 Stars
- 66 The Song of the Stars
- 67 A Song of the Moon
- 68 From “Renascence”
- 69 Ballad of the Moon, Moon
- 70 Chant
- 71 Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis
- 72 The First Men on Mercury
- 73 In the Field
- 74 High Flight
- 75 Delay
- 76 Ladder to the Moon
- 77 For My Great-Great Grandson the Space Pioneer/Para Mi Tataranieto el Astropionero
- 78 Eclipse
- 79 Galaxies
- 80 The Ballet of the Eight-Week Kittens
- 81 Rainy Eclipse
- 82 Flammarion Woodcut Pilgrim Redux
- 83 The Loneliest Road
- 84 The Magician’s Bashful Daughter
- 85 Olber’s Paradox
- 86 January 22, 2003, OR The Day Nasa Sent Its Last Official Signal To Pioneer 10
- 87 Zero Gravity: A Space Requiem
- 88 3 Nights of the Perseids
- 89 Carnal Knowledge
- 90 Fermi’s Paradox
- 91 Here now the Sun: a poem for Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space
- 92 Space Journal: Serendipity
- 93 Sergei Krikalev on the Space Station Mir
- 94 My Father’s Kites
- 95 C. E.
- 96 On the Nearest Pass of Mars in 60,000 Years
- 97 Dr. Rendezvous Takes Communion on the Moon
- 98 From “My God, It’s Full of Stars”
- 99 Relativity
- 100 Included by NASA in a July 2021 Mission to Jupiter
- Acknowledgments
- Biographies
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- Outer Space: 100 Poems , pp. 19 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022