There are 155 Poems about Stars, Planets, Heavens
= First appeared in Poetry magazine."Wreck" and "rise above" 
By Eleanor Wilner
(“Keep me fully glad...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
Gloria Mundi
By Walter De La Mare
VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster
XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin
A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon 
By Ron De Maris
A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane
A Message from the Wanderer
By William E. Stafford
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
By Frank O'Hara
Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
By Emily Jane Brontë
Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish
Apollo 
By Elizabeth Alexander
Ardors
By Carol Frost
ARK 99, Arches XXXIII
By Ronald Johnson
Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro
Astrophel and Stella XXXI
By Philip Sidney
At a Window 
By Carl Sandburg
Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Autumn
By T. E. Hulme
Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers
Banneker
By Rita Dove
Beauty and the Illiterate
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright
Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright
Bowl
By Valerie Martínez
Break of Day
By John Donne
Brick
By Robert Creeley
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats
Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon
Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young
Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Clear Night
By Charles Wright
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth
Cyclopean
By G. K. Chesterton
Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe
Eclipse with Object
By Ann Lauterbach
Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke
Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson
Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost
First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald
First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert
Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gnomic Verses
By Robert Creeley
Halley’s Comet
By Stanley Kunitz
Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser
Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hyperion
By John Keats
I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth
I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy
Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Bay
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth
Information
By David Ignatow
Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley
Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe
Itinerary
By James McMichael
Lucifer in Starlight
By George Meredith
Lunar Baedeker
By Mina Loy
Man
By George Herbert
Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith
Midsummer 
By Robert Fitzgerald
Monuments
By Myra Sklarew
My Star
By Robert Browning
Naming the Stars 
By Joyce Sutphen
Natal Command
By Peter Sacks
Niagara
By Adelaide Crapsey
Night Said
By Franz Wright
Nights on Planet Earth 
By Campbell McGrath
North of Mist 
By Wendy Videlock
October 
By Jacob Polley
Ode to Evening
By William Collins
On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan
On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman
On the Beach at Night Alone
By Walt Whitman
Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald
Patience 
By Katherine Larson
Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich
Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
By Lisa Jarnot
Poker Star
By Richard Brautigan
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot
Robin Hood
By John Keats
Silent, Silent Night
By William Blake
Skywriting
By Charles Tomlinson
Snow on the Desert
By Agha Shahid Ali
Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Spider Crystal Ascension
By Charles Wright
Spirits of the Dead
By Edgar Allan Poe
Stars
By Marjorie Pickthall
Stars 
By Alice Friman
Stone
By Charles Simic
Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald
Ten Moons 
By Sasha Dugdale
The Annihilation of Nothing 
By Thom Gunn
The Book of Thel
By William Blake
from The Bridge: The Dance
By Hart Crane
The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Eemis Stane
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme
The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas
The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan
The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Interrupted Concert
By Federico García Lorca
The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch
The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander
The Moon and the Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath
The Moon is distant from the Sea – (387)
By Emily Dickinson
The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Origin of Order 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Passing of the Wise Men 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Pieces That Fall To Earth 
By Kay Ryan
The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Shadow Of Night
By George Chapman
The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Sound of the Sun
By George Bradley
The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy
The Star
By Ann Taylor
The Star
By Henry Vaughan
The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost
The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Stars and the Moon
By Grace Schulman
The Stars Are 
By Samuel Menashe
The Sun 
By Dan Chiasson
from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper
The World
By Henry Vaughan
There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana
This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To the Moon
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers
Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth
Truly Pathetic 
By Neal Bowers
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
By Jane Taylor
Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Under Stars
By Tess Gallagher
Undone Song at Neap Tide 
By Kathryn Starbuck
What the Rattlesnake Said 
By Vachel Lindsay
What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman
who knows if the moon's
By E. E. Cummings
Working Outside at Night
By Denis Johnson
[Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets] 
By Robert Marteau
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