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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England. The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley, with one brother and four sisters, he stood in...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Outer Space
A Clear Midnight
by Walt Whitman
As I Walked Out One Evening
by W. H. Auden
Bright Star
by John Keats
Hymn to the Night
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm Over the Moon
by Brenda Shaughnessy
Let Evening Come
by Jane Kenyon
Moon Gathering
by Eleanor Wilner
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)
by William Shakespeare
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 Truth About Northern Lights
by Christine Hume
Yellow Stars and Ice
by Susan Stewart
Related Prose
From Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
by Kenneth Koch
Poems about the Heavenly Bodies
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fragment: "To the Moon"  
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

   Art thou pale for weariness

Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,--
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
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