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Subject: AIR FORCE - UNITED STATES
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AIR FORCE PLAYS BASEBALL NEAR THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, by DALE RITTERBUSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He tells me a barrage of 8-inch guns
Last Line: As if the fielders weren't even there
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Battleships; Soldiers; War


AIRMAN, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye
Last Line: Hands, wings, are found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Hawks; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.)


FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS DAY, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing in the shadow of a hangar
Last Line: As if they were stars of the show
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation And Aviators; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Travel


IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pilot, returned, sees the village
Last Line: At 40,000 feet
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Film (photography); News; War


TO AMERICAN FLYERS IN MOROCCO, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead
Last Line: That he may live to cringe at his own name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Morocco


U.S. AIR FORCE; OFFICIAL SONG OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, by ROBERT MACARTHUR CRAWFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Off we go into the wild blue yonder
Last Line: Nothing'll stop the army air corps!
Subject(s): Air Force - United States


VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus
Last Line: —spotting that design.
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb