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The Colors of Starlight

I swept around for comets about an hour, and then I amused myself with noticing the varieties of color. I wonder that I have so long been insensible to this charm in the skies, the tints of the different stars are so delicate in their variety. … What a pity that some of our manufacturers shouldn’t be able to steal the secret of dyestuffs from the stars.

—Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)

Professor of Astronomy, Vassar College

The white mares of the moon rush along the sky

Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass heavens

—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry