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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AIR WARFARE Matches Found: 77 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) |
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