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Subject: FLYING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF FLIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While we slumber and sleep
Last Line: And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


AGAIN, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again to be roaming in rapturous flight
Last Line: In the mid-flight of joy shoot me straight to the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Flight; Hunting; Flying; Hunters


AN INCIDENT, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A simple thing, yet chancing as it did
Last Line: I would not soar like thee, in loneliness to pine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Flight; Life; Flying


DUNLEVY'S LAST TRIP, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was against the law, in such case made and provided
Last Line: "I don't hardly believe that I could explain exactly."
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Flight; Rivers; Flying


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 3. GENOA, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: And have you been to genoa
Last Line: With a hundred years' supplies.
Subject(s): Flying Dutchman (ship); Genoa, Italy


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


FLIGHT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song-birds? Are they flown away?
Last Line: Lies dead beneath the death-white moon.
Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Flying


FLIGHT, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O moon of falling leaf
Last Line: Men fly!
Subject(s): Desire; Flight; Love; Stars; Flying


FLIGHT, by FLORENCE GLENN ZIPF    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if a bird on wing can thrill
Last Line: Only the thrill of flight can satisfy.
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


FLYING, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Treetops are not so high
Subject(s): Flying


FLYING DUTCHMAN, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winds are locked along the tropic shore
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M.
Subject(s): Flying Dutchman (ship); Sea


FLYING HOME, by MAUDE S. REA    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you go flying, flying o'er the sea
Last Line: My joyous heart is flying back with you.
Subject(s): Flight; Home; Flying


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


GOUT AND WINGS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pigeons fluttered fieldward, one and all
Last Line: A wing was open'd at me everywhere!
Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gout; Insects; Wings; Flying; Bugs


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


ICARUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Io triumphe! Lo, thy certain art
Last Line: Derision, and above hyperion shone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Flight; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Flying


INSPIRATION, by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, there are days when I can fly
Last Line: My spirit soars upward, and sings!
Subject(s): Flight; Sky; Wishes; Flying


LATE FLIGHT, by MARK DOTY    Poem 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


LESBIA, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet / and delicate / and rare
Last Line: -- at the end of the bough!
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


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


MONHEGAN GULLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gulls on monhegan
Last Line: To my remembering heart.
Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gulls; Sea; Sky; Flying; Seagulls; Ocean


NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain is pissing down
Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain; Flying


ODE TO MESSRS. GREEN, HOLLOND, AND MONCK MASON, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lofty-minded men!
Last Line: And all be von'd, because of your descent!
Subject(s): Balloons; Flight; Flying


ODE TO MR. GRAHAM, THE AERONAUT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear graham, whilst the busy crowd
Last Line: I've smoked my last cigar!
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease
Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs


SOARINGS, by ALICE RAYMOND SCUDDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: All feathered flight pursues a silent path
Last Line: To greet eternity's unfolding wings!
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had but two little wings
Last Line: And still dreams on.
Subject(s): Flight; Love; Sleep; Flying


SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue
Last Line: O blossom of my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs


SONG (2), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for the wings of a dove
Last Line: Lift me and carry me there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


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


SUNSET, by DOROTHY TALBOTT FOSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw an aeroplane
Last Line: Straight into the setting sun!
Subject(s): Death; Evening; Flight; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Flying


SWALLOWS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the roofs the swallows fly
Last Line: They would not fly again.
Subject(s): Flight; Prayer; Swallows; Flying


THE AERONAUT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Paean, sing paean! / for I have made me wings
Last Line: "thy courier I!'?"
Subject(s): Flight; Love; Religion; Flying; Theology


THE BEST KICK, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met a gentleman keen on walking
Last Line: "count me in on it, lad,"" said I."
Subject(s): Flight; Sailing & Sailors; Walking; Flying; Seamen; Sails


THE BUTTERFLY'S FIRST FLIGHT, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast burst from thy prison
Last Line: To pleasure once more.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flight; Insects; Flying; Bugs


THE DESCENT OF THE AERONAUT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gang of darkies, hoeing corn one day
Last Line: "good-mornin', massa jesus, how's yer paw'?"
Subject(s): African Americans; Flight; Jesus Christ; Negroes; American Blacks; Flying


THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er
Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


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 FLYING SQUIRREL, by MARY E. BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the woodland creatures
Last Line: Because you like it so.
Subject(s): Flying Squirrels


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 HOME-COMING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight upward from the crowded square
Last Line: May rule the kingdom of the air.
Subject(s): Courage; Flight; Home; Pigeons; Valor; Bravery; Flying


THE NET, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear jesu, oh how carefull is thy love
Last Line: And on ye tree of life mayst rest thy wing.
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


THE PARROT AND THE EAGLE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A parrot to an eagle came
Last Line: "to learn to be afraid."
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Flight; Parrots; Allegories; Flying


THE TAILSPIN, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 VAGABONDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What saw you in your flight to-day
Last Line: Ere you enter your slumber-land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Wandering & Wanderers; Flying; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WIND AND IT WAS WINDY WEATHER, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the winds are riding by
Last Line: All the freedom of the sky!
Variant Title(s): And It Was Windy Weather
Subject(s): Flight; Wind; Flying


THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! For thy wings, thou dove!
Last Line: Would draw me earthwards -- homewards -- yet once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Doves; Flight; Flying


TRIOLET, by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By ambition raised high
Last Line: Give, o give me the dove's wings!
Subject(s): Ambition; Flight; Flying


TRIOLET, by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Worldly designs, fears, hopes, farewell!
Last Line: No joys but thine are purely sweet.
Subject(s): Ambition; Flight; Flying


WILD GEESE, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flying wedges of the wild, gray geese
Last Line: Through night, through storm -- god knows what lies in wait.
Subject(s): Flight; Geese; Time; Travel; Flying; Journeys; Trips


WINGED PURPOSES, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly from me does all I would have stay,
Subject(s): Flying


WINGS, by ELISE BRICE GILLESPIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The earth is now full of such wonderful things
Last Line: My arms are outstretched -- oh god! Let me fly!
Subject(s): Flight; Wings; Flying