All 6 Uses of
meteor
in
Leaves of Grass
- …old hills of Judaea with the beautiful gentle God by my side, Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars, Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles, Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest, Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly, Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such…†
Chpt 3
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 Year of meteors! brooding year!†
Chpt 17
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 Year of meteors! brooding year!†
Chpt 17
- …and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long, Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing; Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven, Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads, (A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads, Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;) Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them…†
Chpt 17
- Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!†
Chpt 17 *
- As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant, What am I myself but one of your meteors?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(meteor) a streak of light in the night sky that results from a space rock burning in the earth's atmosphere
or:
a meteoroid: a small space rock that hit the earth's atmosphere
or:
a meteorite: a stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that reached the earth's surface