Stars

Walt Whitman

Whitman's poem begins:

"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,"

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" by Jane Taylor

This classic children's poem was first published by Taylor in 1806. begins:

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky."

"Evening Star" by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's poem contains the lines:

"And I turn’d away to thee,

Proud Evening Star,

In thy glory afar,"