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Subject: AIRSHIPS
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First Line: Inflated, yet elliptical, of epic size
Last Line: To the end, hand on the valves, their fellow spark is god
Subject(s): Airships


AIRSHIP BOYS IN AFRICA, SELS., by TURNER CASSITY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Send a gas bag.'
Last Line: Intent, he clicks his tongue against his teeth
Subject(s): Airships


ALERT, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight %in the garden
Last Line: How can the stars in the pond be put out
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Bombs; Danger; Paris, France


AN ELEGY, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noon is beautiful: the perfect wheel
Subject(s): Airships


ASCENSION DAY, 1937: PICTURES OF AN ACTUAL DISASTER, by NANCY J. NOWAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How beautiful, but for
Last Line: One of the worst catastrophes in the world
Subject(s): Airships


BITS: 18. ZEPPELIN NIGHTS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, will you play all night
Last Line: On sunday afternoon
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Zeppeli
Subject(s): Airships


BROTHERS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never fought %wars, though each
Last Line: He said, cut me
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Brothers; Fights; Flight; War; World War Ii


BUTANE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge aluminum airship
Subject(s): Gas; Fire; Airships


BY CHANCTONBURY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We shuddered on the blotched and wrinkled down
Last Line: Vanishing fog-like in the foggy pall
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Airships


ELEGY, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noon is beautiful: the perfect wheel
Last Line: Through the last stone age, for the pastoral kings
Subject(s): Airships


EPILOGUE TO CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the east central state of nigeria, four years
Last Line: For eastern pastures, as they were before the war
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Nigeria; Ruins; War


EPITAPH, by TURNER CASSITY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Full throttle low above the high savannah
Last Line: We pursue a shade which is ourselves
Subject(s): Airships


FIRE COMMUNICATION, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone went once around the block
Last Line: Fourteen down eagle. %bring me that babe. %the eagle has landed we turn blue. %man is one the moon
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Missionaries And Missions


FLY, ZEPPELIN: A CHILDREN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fly, zeppelin, %help us in the war
Last Line: England will be destroyed by fire, %fly, zeppelin!
Subject(s): Airships


FOR ZEPPELIN, by MAX REGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who bravely leads mankind
Last Line: And upwards to the stars
Subject(s): Airships


FOR ZEPPELIN, by MAX REGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have bravely leads mankind
Last Line: And upwards to the stars
Subject(s): Airships


HINDENBURG DISASTER, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On one evening about half-past four
Last Line: The hindenburg burnt up to her frame
Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly
Subject(s): Airships


I KNOW A LITHE BLOSSOM IN BLIGHTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Ought or oughtn't be hanged, pull the dortue
Subject(s): Airships


IF THE HINDENBURG HAD LEFT FROM LAS VEGAS, by JACK STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost natural its monochrome
Last Line: When heaven rained down fire?
Subject(s): Airships


IMAGES OF LITTLE COMPTON, RHODE ISLAND, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the tendons in the swans' wings stretch
Subject(s): Airships


IMAGES OF LITTLE COMPTON, RHODE ISLAND, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the tendons in the swans' wings stretch
Last Line: And who do you think you are?
Subject(s): Airships


LUCK OF THE ZEPPELIN, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dirigible was like a floating nude
Last Line: Launching every morning with another ship
Subject(s): Airships


PHENOMENA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes all creatures
Subject(s): Airships


PHENOMENA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes all creatures
Last Line: It slides into a cloud over point lobos
Subject(s): Airships


RAILROAD STATION, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The troops get off
Last Line: Flutters around my cigar
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; War; War Injuries


SAILOR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That bird which is flying for the first time
Last Line: I am the old sailor %who sews cut horizons
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Clouds; Sailors And Sailing; Sky


SONG OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER, by KEVIN PRUFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sailor thrums a bluesy bassed-out tune
Last Line: Dims their coralbeds like a blackish note- %the deep the mate's guitar - all thrilling for the boat
Subject(s): Airships; Sailors And Sailing


STAR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The book %and the door
Last Line: Drinking the water of the mirror
Subject(s): Airships; Memory; Stars; War


THE HANGAR AT SUNNYVALE: 1937, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the marsh, a hollow monument
Last Line: Until the inordinate dream again return.
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Airships


THE HAWAIIAN FLIGHT SQUADRON, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Aslant the dim pacific's drifting breeze
Last Line: By nonchalant knight-errants blithely manned.
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Hawaii; Military; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying


THE INCORRIGIBLE DIRIGIBLE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never in any circumstances think you can tell the men from the boys. (or the
Last Line: I am sure it will be revived
Subject(s): Airships


THE MACHINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field
Last Line: In the grave arrangement of the evening
Subject(s): Airships


THE ZEPPELIN FACTORY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The zeppelin factory / needed workers, all right
Subject(s): Airships


UNTITLED MERIDIANS, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half in the matter universe, and half outside, where things are ideas
Last Line: Random wants. We don't have to kill each other for the peace of a %thousand years. In this world I c
Subject(s): Airships; Exhibitions; Museums; Peace


WEEK THE DIRIGIBLE CAME, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the third day it began to be familiar
Last Line: And I knew whatever time %had come was our time and it was like nothing else
Subject(s): Airships


YOUR DEPARTURE VERSUS THE HINDENBURG, by NANCY J. NOWAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every time we say good-bye
Last Line: To take your place
Subject(s): Airships


ZEPPELIN, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guns! Far and near
Last Line: Thank we god
Subject(s): Airships


ZEPPELIN FACTORY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The zeppelin factory %needed workers, all right
Last Line: Big boy I know %you're in there
Subject(s): Airships


ZEPPELIN MARCH: 'LOS ANGELES' U.S.A., by ARTHUR REBNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Till recently people would snear
Last Line: Zeppelin, zeppelin, zeppelin
Subject(s): Airships


ZEPPELIN POLKA, by VICTOR LEON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Zeppelin, that is a man
Last Line: But snails, you'll never fell him!
Subject(s): Airships


ZIMMER AND THE AGE OF ZEPPELINS, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was the faint sound
Last Line: The old moon sailing on above the agony
Subject(s): Airships