I saw a star slide down the sky, Blinding the north as it went by, Too burning and too quick to hold, Too lovely to be bought or sold, Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone.

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Poems by This Author

After Love by Sara Teasdale There is no magic any more Barter by Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell Faults by Sara Teasdale They came to tell your faults to me Four Winds by Sara Teasdale "Four winds blowing thro' the sky I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale I am not yours, not lost in you I Love You by Sara Teasdale When April bends above me Moonlight by Sara Teasdale It will not hurt me when I am old Places [III. Winter Sun] by Sara Teasdale There was a bush with scarlet berries Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale In the wild soft summer darkness The Gift by Sara Teasdale What can I give you, my lord, my lover The Kiss by Sara Teasdale Before you kissed me only winds of heaven The Look by Sara Teasdale Strephon kissed me in the spring There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, What Do I Care by Sara Teasdale What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring

Further Reading

Poems About Outer Space A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman Back Yard by Carl Sandburg Bright Star by John Keats Comet Hyakutake by Arthur Sze I'm Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon Mars Poetica by Wyn Cooper Moon Gathering by Eleanor Wilner Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) by William Shakespeare Now that no one looking by Adam Kirsch Orion by Susan Gevirtz She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron Sky by Anzhelina Polonskaya Skylab by Rolf Jacobsen Star Quilt by Roberta J. Hill Starlight by William Meredith The Star by Jane Taylor The Truth About Northern Lights by Christine Hume To the Moon [fragment] by Percy Bysshe Shelley Yellow Stars and Ice by Susan Stewart