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Does anyone have any romantic astronomy related stories?

starsurfer wrote:Does anyone have any romantic astronomy related stories?

Does moon count as astronomy? I wrote this poem when I was a young-un!

In my one score not yet complete;
my mind goes back one year!
Whence with my dog I took a stroll;
and found my maiden fair!
It was upon a moonlit night;
stars glittered in her hair!
I took her in my arms and then;
I kissed my maiden fair!
I took her home when it was late;
her Papa was a bear!
He chased me out, and so I state;
I lost my maiden fair!
By Orin Stepanek

From The Coming Of Gowf by P.G. Wodehouse ... King Merolchazzar exclaims upon first meeting the Princess of the Outer Isles:

... Now let the sun dim his face and the moon hide herself abashed. Now let the flowers bend their heads and the gazelle of the mountains confess itself a cripple. Princess, your slave!

Orin, I love your poem!! Thank you for sharing it!!

Beating Neufer to the punch here, there is Romeo's well-known But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already pale and sickled with grief! (Or something pretty close to that, anyway.)

starsurfer wrote:Does anyone have any romantic astronomy related stories?

If we're in the realm of fiction, and we can treat "astronomy" loosely, I quite like Neil Gaiman's Stardust, both the book and the movie. A romance involving a man and an actual fallen star. No doubt it appeals to me as a meteoriticist.

That was a cute movie. I listen to its soundtrack from time to time.

This is also cute:
http://www.bas.asn.au/gallery.html

Me with the love of my life...and some girl
Copyright Peter T

orin stepanek wrote:

starsurfer wrote:Does anyone have any romantic astronomy related stories?

Does moon count as astronomy? I wrote this poem when I was a young-un!

In my one score not yet complete;
my mind goes back one year!
Whence with my dog I took a stroll;
and found my maiden fair!
It was upon a moonlit night;
stars glittered in her hair!
I took her in my arms and then;
I kissed my maiden fair!
I took her home when it was late;
her Papa was a bear!
He chased me out, and so I state;
I lost my maiden fair!
By Orin Stepanek

Is this a true story?

starsurfer wrote: Is this a true story?

fiction!