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| Searching... Subject: FLYING Matches Found: 53 A SONG OF FLIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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 |
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