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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sara Teasdale

Born in 1884, Sara Trevor Teasdale's work was characterized by its simplicity and clarity and her use of classical forms...
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		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

The Falling Star
by Sara Teasdale

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.