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| Searching... Subject: AVIATION & AVIATORS Matches Found: 97 A BASEBALL TEAM OF UNKNOWN NAVY PILOTS, PACIFIC THEATER, 1944, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Text 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 MOTOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text 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 TIME TO DANCE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text 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 A VISIT FROM ABROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A speck went blowing up against the sky Last Line: And flew away. ... I fired at him but missed. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips AERO-LAUGHTER, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've never laughed Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots AERO-METRE, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In pale spaciousness Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots AIR SHOW, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In shapes that grow organic and bizarre Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators AIRMAN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text 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.) AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 APRIL DUSK, by LUCY ATKINSON MCILWAINE Poem Text First Line: Man with your stride in the farthest seas Last Line: In april dusk at home. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators AT THE READY, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the aerial squadron, / wheat fields are ready Last Line: Repeating instructions to the already dead. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text 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 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 Text 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 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 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 CONSUMMATION, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In pursuit my plane Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots CONTACT, by IO SLOAN THERME Poem Text First Line: Astride the wings of flying birds mechanic Last Line: And some fly on to eternity. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators 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 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 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 LORD LUCAS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having found wings, he tossed, light as a feather Last Line: The flying ecstasy bright in his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Praise; Flying FROM AN AEROPLANE, by STEPHEN MOONEY Poem Text First Line: Explore the space of vision for a second Last Line: He sees that life is subtle, and is fair. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem 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 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 HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 1, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: What time, day long, from house to house, from door Last Line: "honour be yours, strong, brave, true, steadfast countrymen." Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Guard Duty; Honor; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery HERE IS MUSIC; VILLANELLE (FOR NORMAN WHATLEY), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A cloud of bombers, riding high Last Line: Crusading birds in summer sky. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Sky; Wings HEROES OF THE AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here or there in highest heaven Last Line: Noble heroes of the air! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators 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 ICARUS, by VALENTIN IREMONGER Poem 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 JET PLANE, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flies across sky Last Line: Flies across sky Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators KITTY HAWK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text 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 LATE FLIGHT, by MARK DOTY Poem Text 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 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 LIVING AT THE AIRPORT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text 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 LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text 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 LOVE POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black biplane crashes through the window Last Line: A telephone number: yours. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Love 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 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 MODERN SWALLOW, by HELEN M. WROUGHTON Poem Text First Line: From out the mist-grey skies, a shadow wings its way Last Line: I hear its motor humming the song that power sings. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators NAVY FIELD, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text 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 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 OUR LOST AVIATORS, by ISOLA M. OHAVER Poem Text First Line: Brave hearts were they Last Line: Do know. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The P-151, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text 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 PERSPICUITY, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pirouettes / my plane Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots PIONEERS OF THE AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They leap from the level road Last Line: Break a way for the world! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly / when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: He looks down. Then he looks at me and grins. / I took it, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Aviation & Aviators; Relatives RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem 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 MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text 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 RESPECTED, FEARED, AND SOMEHOW LOVED, by MARJORIE WELISH Poem 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 RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text 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 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 SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN', by NORMAN DUBIE Poem 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 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 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 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 STAR-DUST (TO A DEAD AVIATOR), by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: No more his motor shall climb up the morning Last Line: Star-dust, and silence, and the infinite skies. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Science; Scientists TEN MILLS: THE WRIGHTS' BIPLANE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text 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 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 AIRPLANE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I like to see the airplane and hear the buzzing sound Last Line: You'd think perhaps 'twould find a star to light on in the sky. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; May (month); Wings THE AVIATOR, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Leaving lesser men to feet of clay Last Line: Back to its home—the sun. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Desire; Hearts; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE AVIATOR, by FRANK R. THURSTON Poem Text First Line: I'll don my helmet and flying gear Last Line: Swift and sure and clean. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; Life; Sky; Dead, The THE AVIATORS, by JAMES DUVAL PHELAN Poem Text First Line: Triumphant world! Man glorious, endowed Last Line: We grow by sacrifice; we live by death. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators THE BIRDS DISCUSS THE AEROPLABE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the owl: 'it's a marvel! I never have heard Last Line: "it's the queerest of creatures that fly in the air!" Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds THE CAGED EAGLE'S DEATH DREAM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the one shot Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Another world we have, we that have made Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text 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 DYING AIRMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A handsome young airman lay dying Last Line: "take the cam-shaft from out of my backbone, / and assemble the engine again" Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators THE FLYING MEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who guidest the swallow and wren Last Line: Guard our flying loves when they follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; God; Prayer; Flying THE FRIGATE PELICAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text 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 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 Text 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 Text 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 Text 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 MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; War; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE OLD PILOT, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He discovers himself on an old airfield. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE ONGOING, by MARY SIEGRIST Poem Text First Line: He will not come, the gallant flying boy Last Line: To unpathed fields where his great comrades wait. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Roosevelt, Quentin (1897-1919) THE TAILSPIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Going into a tailspin Last Line: And that way come out of your tailspin whole Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Flight; Aviation & Aviators; Flying THE TREE OF LAUGHING BELLS, OR THE WINGS O FTHE MORNING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text 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 THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLANE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poet's Biography First Line: Kitty hawk is a caesar among monuments Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist Last Line: Mounting in circles, faithful beyond death. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; First World War TO BEACHEY, 1912, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riding against the east Last Line: With the cool, calm shadow at the wheel. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators 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 VOLPLANETOR, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text 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'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 WATCHING THE BOMBER PASS OVER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text 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 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'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 WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text 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 |
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