Physics 55: Poems and Songs Related to Astronomy

Poems

1. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden. Recording of Auden reading this poem is here.
2. Canis Major, by Robert Frost.
3. Cosmic Gall by John Updike.
4. Do Frogs Exist there Too? by Jan Neruda.
5. The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer by Eugenio Montejo.
6. Fireflies in the Garden, by Robert Frost.
7. The Flyin' Outlaw by Curley Fletcher.
8. If the Night Were Void of Stars, by G. O. Pitcovich.
9. Little Cosmic Dust Poem by John Haines.
10. Perils of Modern Living, by Harold Furth.
11. A Place to Park, by Sidney Harris.
12. The Planet of Mars, by Shel Silverstein.
13. The Sky, by G. O. Pitcovich.
14. Sky Tapestry, by Cordella Lackey.
15. Space Childs Mother Goose
16. The Star, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor.
17. Stars, by Robert Frost.
18. Telescope, by Louise Gluck.
19. When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer, by Walt Whitman.
20. White Dwarf, by John Updike.
21. Works and Days (excerpt) by Hesiod.

Songs

1. Arecibo.
2. "Cygnus X-1" by Rush.   MP3   Lyrics
3. "The Elements," by Tom Lehrer   MP3   Lyrics   Flash animation
   Written when Lehrer was a graduate student of mathematics at Harvard in the 1960s, he puts all the names of the elements together in a song to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General".
4. My Favorite Things, variation by Kevin Krisciunas.
5. Songs related to physics.