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Subject: AERONAUTICS - ACCIDENTS
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests
Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


CHAVEZ, by MILDRED MCNEAL SWEENEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So hath he fallen, the endymion of the air
Last Line: His spirit heed, still winged with golden prophecies.
Subject(s): "airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Chavez, Jorge (""geo"") (1887-1910);" Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions


CRASH, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the last woman off of the plane
Last Line: With gravy and rice, to celebrate
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions


TERROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not pinics nor pageants or the improbable
Subject(s): Terror; War; Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions