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Poems on the Moon
Selected by plegault
Description

The relationship between the moon and poetry is about as tempestuous as its relationship with werewolves. If poets stop writing about the moon, the world will probably end.

Collected here are poems by Gertrude Stein, Brenda Shaugnessy, Longfellow, Loy and more.

(By the way, Moon, congratulations on your newly-found water!)
Synopsis

Some lunar lyrics about/around/with/for the Earth's favorite satellite.
 
Poetry
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] by Gertrude Stein
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI by A. E. Housman
The Undying One, Canto I by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Two ramages for old masters [Silent in the moonlight] by Robert Bly
I'm Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy
Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
Moon Gathering by Eleanor Wilner
Moonrise by H. D.
Moreover, the Moon --- by Mina Loy
Satellite Convulsions by Ben Doyle
The Creation of the Moon by Anonymous
The Distant Moon by Rafael Campo
The Wind and the Moon by George Macdonald
The Wind and the Other Moon by Robert Gregory
Tides by Lisa Rhoades
To the Moon [fragment] by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] by Shido
 
Prose
Poems about Aliens
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