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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AIR Matches Found: 332 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BASEBALL TEAM OF UNKNOWN NAVY PILOTS, PACIFIC THEATER, 1944, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assigned a week's good bunt, run, throw Subject(s): Baseball; World War Ii; Aviation & Aviators; Second World War; Airplanes; Air Pilots A DEAD AIRMAN, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: May's tapestry of green and gold Last Line: Can so view death. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The A FEEL IN THE CHRISTMAS-AIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a kind o' feel in the air, to me Last Line: The sad-sweet feel in the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Air; Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The A FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A GAME OF BOWLS (WRITTEN DURING AN AIR RAID), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: My body's crouched beneath a table shelter Last Line: Reaches me still and keeps me unafraid. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Games; Soldiers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A MOTOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy, wet, guttural Last Line: Now and later. Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Blake, William (1757-1827); Cancer (disease); Airplanes; Air Pilots A PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Until tonight they were separate specialties Subject(s): Air Travel; Theology A TIME TO DANCE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those had the power Last Line: Our lives they are evergreen. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; Hope; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Optimism AERIAL VIEW, by ALEXANDRA GRILIKHES Poem Source First Line: The island spreads itself out Last Line: In the sun of late afternoon, fog at night Subject(s): Air Travel; Islands AERO-LAUGHTER, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've never laughed Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots AERO-METRE, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pale spaciousness Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots AIR, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It holds us, gently Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Air AIR, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' rough seligenstadt Last Line: Shall charm the ear they seem to wound. Subject(s): Air AIR, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Element that utters doves, angels and cleft flames Last Line: Like silence into music, opening a way through time. Subject(s): Air; Wind AIR, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: Something forgotten %the closed door Last Line: And the gestures that your fingers make Subject(s): Air AIR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Your body is the duct in which Last Line: Burns in a terrible flame and smells Subject(s): Air; Language AIR, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open window, a confusion Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness AIR AN' LIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Look an' zee how widely free Last Line: Do miss a zight he cannot show. Subject(s): Air; Life; Light; Morning 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 AIR HAS NO RESIDENCE, NO NEIGHBOR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Till it depart, persuading mine Variant Title(s): Poem: 1060; Poem: 98 Subject(s): Air AIR RAID, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: I am the air raid of the lord Last Line: The wonderful %turning %of the year! Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; God AIR RAID ACROSS THE BAY OF PLYMOUTH, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the whispering sea Last Line: Man hammers nails in man, %high on his crucifix Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii AIR RAID: BARCELONA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black smoke of sound Last Line: Men uncover bodies %from ruins of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Air Warfare; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AIR TRAVEL IN ARABIA, by CHARLES+(2) JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Then petra flashed by in a wink Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabia AIRBORNE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: In the racetrack parking lot, just a few spaces down from 'the tent Last Line: Or the whistles or the screaming engines Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Air Travel; Balloons; Tourists 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.) AIRMAN'S ALPHABET, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ace - pride of parents Last Line: And time of attack Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation And Aviators; Homosexuality AIRPLANE IN STORMY PASS, by CORNELIA DODDS Poem Text First Line: The wind is tearing through the pass tonight Last Line: The guiding light of christ will never fail. Subject(s): Air Travel; Faith; Belief; Creed AIRPORT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palace of unreality, where the place Subject(s): Air Travel AIRPORT, EVENING, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON Poem Text First Line: The looms of twilight weave across the west Last Line: We find it hard to travel roads of clay! Subject(s): Air Travel AN ENGLISHMAN TO A GERMAN AVIATOR, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, we are enemies-and deadly ones Last Line: There is no room within our hearts for hate. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death; Enemies; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War APOLOGUE: THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A SPANISH SAYING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek for me in the arab maid's bower Last Line: Parted once, we part for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Air; Fire; Shame; Water AT LEAST THAT ABANDON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I watch at the long window Subject(s): Air Travel AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of a window Last Line: A shadow to the ground. Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake. Subject(s): Air Travel; Language; Words; Vocabulary AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake Subject(s): Air Travel; Language AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT AN AIR-STATION, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delay, well, travellers must expect Last Line: So much on this assumption. Now it's failed Subject(s): Air Travel AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT AN AIR-STATION, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delay, well, travellers must expect Last Line: Begins to ebb outside, by fear; I set %so much on this assumption. Now it's failed Subject(s): Air Travel BAILING OUT-A POEM FOR THE 1970S, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landings had gone wrong; white silk Last Line: I can't help you, help me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): Bailing Out -- A Poem For The 1970s Subject(s): Accidents; Air; Storms BALANCE, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the arctic landscape from above Subject(s): Air Travel; Landscape BALLOONISTS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: See the tall man there in the top hat Last Line: And the cheering imperceptibly subsides Subject(s): Air; Balloons; Tourists; Travel BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BELLS IN THE ENDTIME OF GYURMEY TSULTRIM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull Last Line: Something has begun... Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Future Life; Lightning; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Lightning Rods 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 BIG-LITTLE TOWN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Next time you ride to the airport Last Line: So much, learned so much, done %so much for others? Rejoice. Subject(s): Air Travel; Commuters; Nome, Alaska; Towns; Travel BILLY, by LYN FERLO Poem Source First Line: Billy came through the office today Last Line: It's a lot cooler now Subject(s): Air Conditioning - Repairing; Sex BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BUSINESS CLASS, by RICHARD COLE Poem Source First Line: The flight attendants maneuver their way Last Line: A life or a living. Tell me what it all %doesn't count Subject(s): Air Travel CAPTAIN GUYNEMER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What high adventure, in what world afar Last Line: And in man's grateful heart shall live immortally! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves %the grievers Last Line: The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii 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 COCKPIT IN THE CLOUDS, by DICK DORRANCE Poem Source First Line: Two thousand feet beneath our wheels Last Line: Down there, we're just another noise Subject(s): Air Travel COLOR OF AIR, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the air is blue, so blue Subject(s): Air COME TO THE STONE ..., by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child saw the bombers skate like stones across the field Last Line: Come to the stone and tell me why I died Subject(s): Air Warfare; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The COMING IN AT KENNEDY, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: We are circling, circling Last Line: Slamming concrete, we become one tapestry Subject(s): Air Travel CONNECTING FLIGHT, by JOSHUA WEINER Poem Source First Line: Late to my gate, still Last Line: Locked on leather handles %still moist from those hands... Subject(s): Air Travel CONSUMMATION, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pursuit my plane Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots 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 CROSSING THE ATLANTIC BY PLANE, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: The man-made wonder soared Last Line: And which named the more awesome - %the waters, the clouds, or the plane? Subject(s): Air Travel; Atlantic Ocean CUSTOMS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: A small airport. A plane Last Line: The grass growing under his feet Subject(s): Air Travel DANCE OF DEATH (AIR RAID AT NORWICH), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: The electric lights begin Last Line: And now begin the drums. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dead, The DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Last Line: The lives' long war, lost war - the pilot sleeps Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii DEATH OF A BOMBER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the smoke. The blue skull of the sky Last Line: Someone began a drawn-out bedroom joke Subject(s): Air Warfare DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Last Line: When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation And Aviators; Death; World War Ii DEERFLIES DIE BY THE BILLIONS, THE COOL AIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the moon drifts closer to the cabin door Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Air; Flies; Nature; Night DELTA FLIGHT 659, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm writing this on a plane, sean penn, Subject(s): Penn, Sean; Air Travel; Iraq War DEPARTURES, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: How many thousands of years ago it left (or tried to leave; Last Line: You protest, squinting at your own face. - but it is Subject(s): Air Travel; Dinosaurs; Fossils DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Shaving lotion fresh Last Line: Airport in the universe Subject(s): West (u.s.); Air Travel; Southwest; Pacific States DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth. Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime DISSONANCES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the midst of music rare Last Line: They were a part of the melody. Subject(s): Air; Harps; Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres DREAMS OF FLIGHT, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: It started with the cardboard wings my brother built, wings with Last Line: Studying the pure gliding principle Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Dreams; Flight DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Last Line: I wandered out through the steeples of rust, the gate that was a broken bed Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear, / the plane is so small the baggage Subject(s): Air Travel EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear, %the plane is so small the baggage Last Line: Us like an afterbirth Subject(s): Air Travel EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Last Line: Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can: %I find no fault in this just man Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Last Line: Praising the heroes, discussing the habits of the wicked, %underlining the moral, explaining doom an Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor & Laborers; Teenagers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Last Line: Childlike, with childish things not put away Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor And Laborers; Teenagers; World War I FALLEN AVIATOR, by BETTY ANN FEINEMAN Poem Text First Line: In life, you sought to clip his wings and bind Last Line: I hear his eager wings released in flight. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots FIRST FLIGHT, by CAROL COATES Poem Text First Line: The day, brittle with ice Last Line: The cryptic notations of even flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cassidy, Alice Caroline Coates Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying FIRST FLIGHT, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Source First Line: Here is the perfect vision: in the dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Air Travel FIRST NIGHT-FLIGHT, by MARGARET BODEN Poem Text First Line: Space inconceivable Last Line: Gaily, to die. Subject(s): Air Travel FLIGHT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the half-dark cabin of air lanka flight 5 Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Air Travel; Ceylon FLIGHT OUT, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Buckling yourself into your aisle seat Last Line: And at last your own aircraft begins to roll Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Nome, Alaska FLIGHT PLAN, by JANE MERCHANT Poem Source First Line: Of all the ways of traveling Subject(s): Air Travel; Machinery And Machinists FLIGHT TO LIMBO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not Last Line: That some secrets are hidden from health Subject(s): Air Travel FLIGHT TO LIMBO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not Last Line: While ill-paid wraiths mopped circles of night %into the motionless floor Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations Last Line: All night, the cities, like shimmering novas, %tug with bright streets at lonely lights like this Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING FRIENDLY SKIES, by TURNER CASSITY Poem Source First Line: Our left and right show red and green: mute phonics Last Line: Her reading light. I? I fall in between Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING HOME, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down milk-bright colonnades Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING HOME FROM UTAH, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forests are branches of a tree lying down Last Line: A leaf within a wilderness of worlds Subject(s): Air Travel FOR A YOUNG AVIATOR, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord, guide him safely through the sky! Last Line: Lord, guide him surely through the sky! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots FOR D., by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The plane whumps down through rainclouds, streaks Subject(s): Absence; Air Travel; Separation; Isolation FOUR ELEMENTS: AIR, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Air, in its normal state, secretes a steady cloud of pepper that makes Last Line: Moon gives the sea its salty taste Subject(s): Air; Earth; Nature FREQUENT FLIER II, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How delicious, to step into this new skin! Last Line: His wife in chagall's the kiss! Subject(s): Air Travel; Marriage FRESH AIR, by KEVIN ERICKSON Poem Source First Line: In an atmosphere of dog-eat-dog Subject(s): Air FRESH AIR, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: I was a full generation younger Last Line: And I forgot I ever needed to touch ground! Subject(s): Air FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Last Line: O green, beneath which all of them shall drown! Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FRESH AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaily afield, this morning of the skies Last Line: Into my surly, stagnant living flow! Subject(s): Air 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 FROM ABOVE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pink-white acres of overcast Subject(s): Air Travel FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Last Line: All the air quivers, and the east sky glows Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii FULL DAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pilot on the plane says Subject(s): Air Travel; Progress FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Last Line: Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding palw Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America GREAT JEHOVAH THOU ART; AN AVIATION HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah thou art, god of heaven above Last Line: In that land of the endless day. Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america Last Line: Age after age, the uninstructing dead Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States HE WHO LOSETH HIS LIFE SHALL FIND IT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poignantly, the gothic arch Last Line: Lover, merge thee in the whole! Subject(s): Air; Heaven; Life; Soul; Sun; Paradise HEADING FOR NANDI, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of honolulu Last Line: Or would be, but for me Subject(s): Air Travel HEADING FOR NANDI, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of honolulu Last Line: Or would be, but for me Subject(s): Air Travel HIGH FLIGHT, by JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Last Line: Put out my hand and touched the face of god. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Religion; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology; Second World War HOLDING PATTERN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intermittent wet under Last Line: Between your knees Subject(s): Air Travel HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the fight finger Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the right forefinger Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money Last Line: All you have to do it not argue Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money Last Line: All you have to do is not argue Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile? Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile? Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) I CAN TELL YOU, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I can tell you about airplanes Last Line: To walk away alive Subject(s): Advice; Air Travel I LOVE TO FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I am making phone calls to dozens of airlines Last Line: And I love to fly Subject(s): Air Travel I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue Last Line: All sandwiched in between Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation ICARUS, by VALENTIN IREMONGER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As, even to-day, the airman, feeling the plane sweat Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Airplanes; Air Pilots IN AN AEROPLANE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Merged in a moving picture earth goes by Last Line: Close to the confines of eternity. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Sky; Tourists; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips IN AN AIRPLANE, by YAN YI Poem Source First Line: Ascending, I left noisy earth behind Last Line: Surpassing what's in the sky, more beautiful than dreams Subject(s): Air Travel IN AN AIRPLANE, by YAN YI Poem Source First Line: Ascending, I leave noisy earth behind Last Line: Surpassing what's in the sky, more beautiful than dreams Subject(s): Air Travel IN AN AIRPLANE I'M SUPPOSED TO, by SARAH KIRSCH Poem Source Last Line: I climb out there Subject(s): Air Travel IN THE LITTLE SATCHEL OF SILENCE, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source Last Line: From the trees Subject(s): Air; Silence 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 ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels, boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel KEY WEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I feel sad, I thank god I don't have tiny lizards crawling under my Last Line: The shivering of this airplane's unpredictable wing Subject(s): Air Travel; Key West, Florida KITTY HAWK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kitty hawk, o kitty Last Line: Not to mention clutch Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912); Airplanes; Air Pilots KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses Last Line: Thus I have written this poem on a jet seat in mid heaven Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism LAMENT OF PROFESSOR TURBOJET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why vainly do I hither fly Last Line: But does it matter what I say? Subject(s): Air Travel LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: Unpreaching stony water. Whumppf; we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: The world's fair globe, a toy. Shea stadium. %upreaching stony water. Whumpff: we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LAST BREATH, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Breathe! I demanded, like when you had your babies Last Line: Breathe, it's up to you to keep her alive Subject(s): Air; Breath; Life; Travel LATE FLIGHT, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pilot of the little plane must stop his engines Last Line: The self is made of night Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying LETTER TO AN AVIATOR IN FRANCE, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A slope of summer sprinkled over Last Line: And sunset roses are in bloom. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: That top-secret flight at night Last Line: Of all that was about to come Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions LINDY-GRAMS: 1. LINDY'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Straight as a bird upon its course Last Line: Shall seldom see again. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Islands; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Sky; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips LINDY-GRAMS: 2. LINDY FLEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When lindy flew across the sea Last Line: "and brought back home our colonel ""slim." Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Travel; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips LINDY-GRAMS: 3. OUR LINDY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Who is great among the great? Last Line: Our lindy! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Heroism; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Heroes; Heroines LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego" Last Line: But keep their sister angel there Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women LITTLE FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then I heard the bomber call me in Last Line: Let's go home Subject(s): Air Warfare;world War Ii; Second World War LIVING AT THE AIRPORT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because they lived near a major airport Last Line: Wings? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Travel; Wheels; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Last Line: & took a 9:06 train up to cambridge Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LUNARDI'S SECOND FLIGHT FROM GLASGOW DESCRIBED, by ROBERT GALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: The hardy seaman, when ashore Last Line: And then he's sure to get his pakes, when on his bum Subject(s): Air Travel; Glasgow, Scotland MAN'S PLANS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat beside me by the fire, and chattered Last Line: "abroad,"" and didn't need to take his wad." Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Urban Life MASSIVE RETALIATION; SAIPAN 1944-1945; AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaped, admitted, at some what we did Last Line: So far from home, almost beyond return Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Saipan (island); World War Ii MASTER OF NONE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plastic safety card Subject(s): Air Travel; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MATCHMAKER IN FLIGHT, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Until I saw the stewardess's legs Last Line: The fuel is low, you've got to land %on solid ground. That's all your fare is worth Subject(s): Air Travel MEN HAVE WINGS AT LAST, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wolf, wolf-stay-at-home Last Line: "men with wings, at last!" Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Air Warfare MESSAGE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: City toilers in tumult and noise Last Line: See, you have missed all the daisies! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Last Line: I am one small woman in a great space, %temporarily free andclear. %I am by myself, climbing into my Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women NAVY FIELD, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limped out of the hot sky a hurt plane, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots NEAR THE AIRPORT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleek, keen, so now - superbo jets that go Subject(s): Air Travel NEVER AGAIN, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: A hunmdred houses were in ruins Last Line: The bastards! Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare NIGHT AIR, BOKHARA', by SIDNEY WADE Poem Source Last Line: And the overall balance a tricky sport Subject(s): Air; Night NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdowb spank Subject(s): Air Travel NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdown spank Subject(s): Air Travel NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Last Line: For all the time of training, you might take %the hundred steps in darkness, not the next Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii NIGHT RAID, by DESMOND HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: The sleepers humped down on the benches Last Line: The night sky %throbbed under the cool bandage of the searchlights Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii NORTH: 1991, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: In the euphoria that followed Last Line: Of saws, the rise and fall, %a crackling in the hard wood Subject(s): Air Warfare; News; Nuclear War; United States ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by JOSHUA BECKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, / belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes Last Line: Do please please circle Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul Subject(s): Air Travel ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by JOSHUA BECKMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, %belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes Last Line: Tiny planes please circle oh tiny planes %do please please circle Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul Subject(s): Air Travel ON EAGLES' WINGS (A VERSE FOR A PILOT), by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Supremely in his hand are you Last Line: And know you're not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Religion; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology ON SEEING MY BIRTHPLACE FROM A JET AIRCRAFT, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY Poem Source First Line: The nursery boast Last Line: Imagine that your cap's on back to front Subject(s): Air Travel; Children ON THE 747, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source First Line: As soon as I sat down Last Line: Returning to what she said %she could not imagine Subject(s): Air Travel; Children ON THE AISLE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye to maui - to orchids on our plates Last Line: And he runs for it Subject(s): Air Travel; Farewell; Parting ON THE DARK, STILL, DRY, WARM WEATHER ... IN WINTER MONTHS, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The imprisoned winds slumber within their caves Last Line: And float the deluged paths and miry fields. Subject(s): Air; Snow; Weather; Wind; Winter ON THE PILOTS WHO DESTROYED GERMANY IN THE SPRING OF 1945, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a roof top and they wove their cage Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Variant Title(s): Responsibility: The Pilots Who Destroyed German ... 194 Subject(s): Air Warfare; Germany; Troy; World War Ii ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 97, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These days, one must fly - but where to? Last Line: Transformed in the end into poppies Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Air Travel ORGASM OVER MT. ARARAT, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: I don't suppose our stars are crossed Last Line: We fly. Bumper to bumper. Backseat to the sky Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Sex; Superman OUR GROUND TIME HERE WILL BE BRIEF, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue landing lights make Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Air Travel P-151, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fills the sky like wind made visible Last Line: Her birth above the hill like a crowd's cheer Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots PARTITIONS: THE LOT OF BEING COMMON TO ALL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the windowless west wall Subject(s): Air Travel; Women PERSPICUITY, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pirouettes / my plane Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots PERVERSITY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Once it was sweet when darkness veiled the hills Last Line: Missing life's comforts, we would just be bored. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Night; Pollution; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bedtime PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Last Line: Shining as the fragile sun-marked plane %that grows to him, rubbed silver tipped with flame Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii PILOT IN THE JUNGLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Machine stitched rivets ravel on a tree Last Line: Past heads and tails, past vertebrae and gill %to bedrocks out of time, with time to kill Subject(s): Air Warfare; Jungles PILOT'S PSALM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The be2c is my 'bus; therefore I shall want Last Line: Else I shall dwell in the house of %colney hatch forever Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I PILOTS, MAN YOUR PLANES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn; and the jew's-harp's sawing seesaw song Subject(s): Air Warfare PILOTS, MAN YOUR PLANES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn; and the jew's-harp's sawing seesaw song Subject(s): Air Warfare PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Full Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no widening distance at the shore Last Line: Corrects his role, his gesture, and his walk Subject(s): Air Warfare PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no widening distance at the shore Last Line: Each man looks down and sees he will not die Subject(s): Air Warfare POWER OF DREAMS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: You probably don't know this Last Line: Destinations Subject(s): Air Travel; Dreams PREPOSITIONS OF JET TRAVEL, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: In a dawn so clear Last Line: From my left eye %it is fifty below Subject(s): Air Travel R.A.F. (1940), by SYLVIA DRYHURST LYND Poem Text First Line: I heard the squadron flying home Last Line: Call them the squadron flying home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lynd, Mrs. Robert Subject(s): Royal Air Force; World War Ii; Second World War RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War READING MOBY-DICK AT 30,000 FEET, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this height, kansas / is just a concept Last Line: Where are we going now? Subject(s): Air Travel READING MOBY-DICK AT 30,000 FEET, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this height, kansas %is just a concept Last Line: Oh captain, captain! %where are we going now? Subject(s): Air Travel READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (1), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the foundations quaked and the pillars shook Last Line: Of every man prays that he may be spared %calamity that strikes each neighbouring face Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (2), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great pulsation passed. Glass lay around me Last Line: Of every house will be that it is spared %calamity that strikes its neighbour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii RESPECTED, FEARED, AND SOMEHOW LOVED, by MARJORIE WELISH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run we must fix our compass Last Line: Shipwrecked icily, the windows called away? Subject(s): Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Disasters; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The REVERIE IN OPEN AIR, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I acknowledge my status as a stranger Last Line: But news of a breeze Subject(s): Air; Calm; Human Behavior; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one woman has been sobbing Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Last Line: As if these were ruins, as if we were ghosts Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities SEARCHLIGHTS, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: You who have seen across the star-decked skies Last Line: Which slowly moves across the shell-torn night? Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War SEASON OF THE DEAD: 3. FOR AN ENEMY PILOT (1923-1945), by ANDRES ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Joystick forward, rudder right Last Line: It carries on, it holds no memory Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Last Line: But for them the bombers answer everything Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii SHUTTLE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting airborne on the %new york-to-boston shuttle Last Line: And the shuttle is always crowded Subject(s): Air Travel; Capp, Al (1909-1979); Cartoons And Cartoonists SITTING WITH THE AIR, by MARK SENKUS Poem Source First Line: There is a moment Last Line: That you didn't know %was closed Subject(s): Air; Time SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: For fifty years Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SOLILOQUY IN AN AIR-RAID, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The will dissolves, the heart becomes excited Last Line: Unfolds spantaneous as the human wish, %as autumn dancing, vermilion on rocks Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN', by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charlie parker running a tow-line / from a red barge Last Line: That is beyond the grave like a great granite keep. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Family Life; Life Change Events; Loss; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Peace; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Relatives SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD Poem Text First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War SONG TO AVIATORS, by HANNAH CUSHMAN HOWES Poem Text First Line: You are the spirits who show the way Last Line: To croon a song to the fair and brave! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying SONGLINE OF DAWN, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are ascending through the dawn Subject(s): Air Travel; Religion; Ancestors & Ancestry; Theology SONIC BOOM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the living room Last Line: I shant look up to see it drop Subject(s): Air Travel SONIC BOOM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the living room Last Line: And if it does, with one more pop, %I shan't look up to see it drop Subject(s): Air Travel SPANISH WINGS: A LEAF FROM A LOG BOOK, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: Dropping down through tired skies Last Line: Our bodies gorged with the blood of legions. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Airplanes; Air Pilots SPANISH WINGS: SENOR, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: We slammed down 3000 feet Last Line: The rumble of the artillery paid no attention. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Airplanes; Air Pilots SPANISH WINGS: SENORITA, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: Spain has no need of you Last Line: -- I have such a short space to live. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Airplanes; Air Pilots SPIDERWEBS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man sitting next to me on the airplane pulled our Subject(s): Air Travel; Computers; Eccentrics & Eccentricites SPIN, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: The whole plane rises in an effort Last Line: From the spinning touch upon the dusty field. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hiss and flashing lights of a jet Last Line: Belongs to the twentieth century and its wars. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze SUMMER AIRS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This air's a lovely thing: it blows Last Line: Fed on the very breath of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Air; God; Love; Praise; Summer TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Air Travel TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Air Travel TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick Last Line: Throbs within them, under cashmere and cambric: %'vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel TEN MILLS: THE WRIGHTS' BIPLANE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This biplane is the shape of human flight Last Line: For it was writ in heaven doubly wright Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912); Airplanes; Air Pilots 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 THAT OTHER WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the plane was ready to Last Line: I went on alone %back ot my own Subject(s): Air Travel THE ACE TO HIS QUEEN, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: My biplane, taking Last Line: And pay thy lover! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail! Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE BIRDS OF STEEL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This apple-tree, that once was green Last Line: Up, nearer to god, they fly and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War THE BLESSED VIRGIN, COMPARED TO THE AIR WE BREATHE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild air, world-mothering air Last Line: Fold home, fast fold thy child. Variant Title(s): Mary Mother Of Divine Grace, Compared Subject(s): Air; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days Last Line: With the dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991) THE CAGED EAGLE'S DEATH DREAM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the one shot Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE DANCING OF THE AIR, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And now behold your tender nurse, the air Last Line: As two at once encumber not the place. Subject(s): Air; Nature THE DAWN PATROL, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I fly at dawn above the sea Last Line: In thanks to him who brings me safely home. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Holidays; Thanksgiving; World War I; First World War THE DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE FAN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is I control the air Last Line: Or your tears that tremble. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Air; Fans; Wings THE FIRST AIR-RAID WARNING, by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: When the quiet acres I look upon were shaken Last Line: Not seed-time and harvest, but wars, shall pass away. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE FRIGATE PELICAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Pelicans; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii; Second World War THE GENEROUS AIR, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathing the thin breath through our nostrils, we Last Line: Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Air; Life THE GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States; America 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 LANDSCAPE NEAR AN AERODROME, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More beautiful and soft than any moth Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE LEARNERS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the planes come in all night, and the lights reach, wavering Last Line: This is your world now, ghosts, have you learned anything? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE LEGLESS FIGHTER PILOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He takes his calf in his hand, lifts the Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Amputees; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War THE OLD PILOT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He discovers himself on an old airfield. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE OPEN DOOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, little bird, I open wide Last Line: Awaits my song Subject(s): Air; Birds; Freedom; Wings; Liberty THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out into the cool clear air Last Line: To the other side of the moon! Subject(s): Air; Love; Moon THE PAPER KITE, SELS, by SAMUEL BOWDEN Poem Text First Line: The kite, completed thus, is borne along / by some blest leaders Last Line: With her alike concludes th' advent'rous flight. Subject(s): Air; Kites; Paper; Sailing & Sailors; Sky; Seamen; Sails THE PEACE OF CITIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible streets, the manichee hell of twilight Last Line: An blew the bolt from everybody's door Subject(s): Cities; Air Raids THE PILOT IN THE JUNGLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Machine stitched rivets ravel on a tree Last Line: To bedrocks out of time, with time to kill Subject(s): Air Warfare; Jungles THE SECOND DREAM, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We all heard the alarm. The planes were out Subject(s): Air Raids THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit amidst the universe Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the spirit of the viewless air Last Line: Calm, or in tempest rolling, I am there. Subject(s): Air THE STEPHENSON OF THE AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where lives he? - that inventive one Last Line: Has learned to struggle and to win! Subject(s): Air Travel; Inventions And Inventors; Stephenson, George (1781-1848) THE TREE OF LAUGHING BELLS, OR THE WINGS O FTHE MORNING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From many morning-glories Last Line: Are the wings of the morning made! Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you danced from midnight Last Line: With their lucifer kicking Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Air Travel THE WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW CAN'T COMPARE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had made it through so many winters Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Sparrows; Air Raids THIN AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By holding one's head stock-still and measuring Last Line: Murderously fast. Oh, we would die, %squashed snails, were the world one shade more solid Subject(s): Air Travel THOUGHTS AT THIRTY-THOUSAND FEET, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The penny holds out its little promise Last Line: So keep the whole mess from exploding Subject(s): Air Travel THOUGHTS DURING AN AIR RAID, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Last Line: Which is all mystery or nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare THREE PERFECT DAYS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle seat of an airplane, Subject(s): Air Travel; Wishes THREE VARIATIONS ON ELEGIAC THEMES: III: 1886, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: A stillness in %the air you heard Last Line: Of light you could %see to see Subject(s): Air; Quiet Life 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 TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little princess of the small slipper Last Line: Is the one word, -- love? Subject(s): Air; Death; Life; Lips; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TO THE WINGLESS VICTORY; A PRAYER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wingless victory, whose shrine Last Line: O wingless victory! Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War TONALA BESIEGED, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my son, there is no water now at all Last Line: Thy sister was too beautiful, my son. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to you o moon Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret. Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses TRANS-CANADA, by ROBERT HEDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At this speed, my friend, our origins are groundless Last Line: Our souls speak and carry our bodies like capes. Variant Title(s): Transcanadian Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots TRANSMISSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shell expressed the verity Last Line: A wing -- a soaring life, I mean. Subject(s): Air; Sea; Sky; Ocean TRAVELING MAN, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Where were you born? %I was born in puerto rico Last Line: Charter and I have many wonderful holidays. Just the two of us Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Passports; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRINIDAD, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: This I have often been Last Line: In which the three of us will meet %in the form %of one Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel; Trinidad And Tobago TROLL'S COURTSHIP (WRITTEN AFTER AN AIR RAID, APRIL 1941), by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the misty night humming to themselves like morons Last Line: To be - for all their kudos - %wrong, wrong in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii 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 UNDER THE HAZY, BLOSSOM-LADEN SKY, by OKAMOTO JUN Poem Source Last Line: That the fire-rain never again fall on the world Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again today, balloons aloft in the hazy here Last Line: But I was happy, and my happiness made others happy. Subject(s): Courage; Happiness; Hot-air Balloons; Valor; Bravery; Joy; Delight UTTAR PRADESH, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh Subject(s): Air Travel UTTAR PRADESH, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh Last Line: Ah, yes, and a most memorable hasenpfeffer Subject(s): Air Travel 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 VIEW FROM A PLANE TO GUATEMALA, by IRENE BARNARD Poem Source First Line: I look out the window of the plane Last Line: I begin to understand Subject(s): Air Travel; Guatemala VIEWS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly all the time, and still I'm afraid to fly Subject(s): Air Travel; Fear VOICES OF THE AIR, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But then there comes that moment rare Last Line: The shrill quick sound that the insect makes. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Air; Sea; Voices; Wind; Ocean VOLPLANETOR, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insoluable in high air's quiescency Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots WAIKIKI, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the famous beach in honolulu a small japanese girl cried and cried Last Line: Made and funneled up the billion particles into a mound. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Honolulu; Seashore; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips WAITING FOR MY WIFE'S COMMUTER FLIGHT, 45 MINUTES LATE, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: When a convulsive boom shakes Last Line: Like a top. A screw needed tightening, %chuck said. Such a little thing Subject(s): Air Travel; Airplane Accidents; Marriage; Waiting WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Last Line: With the help of the losers we left out there %in the air, in the empty air Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii WAR SEQUENCE: BOMBING PLANE, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: Dread warrior of the cirrelucent air Last Line: Makes him quick prey of the cold spider death. Subject(s): Air Warfare WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WATCHING THE BOMBER PASS OVER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can we speak of eyes and seasons Last Line: Not one of us escapes some little happiness! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Bombs; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots WE DEFINITIONS, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Air Travel WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water earth fire air Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water WHAT THE END IS FOR (GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy just like you took me out to see them Last Line: Until the sound of the open ocean grows and the voice. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze WHEN I LOVE YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation WHERE THE WHITE BIRD FLIES, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The white bird fallen? The white bird lost? Last Line: Only heroes follow where the white bird flies. Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Sky; Wings WINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bay was bronzed with sunset and so light Last Line: We soared, upbuoyed on waters sunset-red! Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Eagles; Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots WORDS SPOKEN BY PASTERNAK DURING THE BOMBING, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that ancient time - in eternity Last Line: I wanted to be a cloud, a star, %a mountain stone - clear, like water Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960) WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: Destroying the germans and their cities Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): World War Ii; Air Raids; Aviation & Aviators; Rescues YOU WERE LOCKED IN AN AIRPLACE, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source Last Line: Or you put one letter in front of another %like an excuse. %so long Subject(s): Air Travel |
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