Astronomy by Connor Kaplan

Astronomy by Connor Kaplan

When I look up at the night sky what do I see?

I see what looks like a few stars.

I see blinking lights.

I see darkness.

But through this observation I imagine.

I imagine the sight of seeing to many stars to count.

I imagine the beautiful colors of the cosmos.

I imagine the planets and there satellites.

I imagine what might be out there.

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Poem of the Day: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Posted: Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0600

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.