What literature do you know that refers to astronomy in poetry etc?

I have found references to astronomy in several places over the years. Here are just a few of them:

Chauser
Virgil         "Aeneid"
Aeschylus      "Agamemnon"
Wordsworth
Ovid           "Metamorphosis"
Aratus
Charles Barnes "1001 Celestial Wonders"
Shelly          " A Hymn to Castor and Pollux"
Longfellow,     "Occultation of Orion"
Longfellow      "The Galaxy"
Tennyson        "Locksley Hall"
Tennyson        "Merlin and Vivien"
Milton          "Paradise Lost"
Dante           "Paradisio"
Marlowe         "History of Doctor Faustus"
Bryant          "Hymn to the North Star"
Robert Frost    "A Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus"
                "The Star Splitter"
                "Canis Major"
                "Fire and Ice"
                "Fireflies in the Garden"
                "On Making Certain Anything Has Happened"
                "Skeptic"
Walt Whitman    "Upon Hearing the Learned Astronomer"
Matthew Arnold  "A Summer Night"
A. Lampman      "Alcyone"

Ch'un Ku        "Song of the Twelve Moons"
Tu Fu           "Autumn Night"
Howard Lovecraft  "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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