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Scott O'Grady's book Return With Honor, which has a full transcript of the poem. One Small Step, a children's novel by Philip Kerr, reprints the poem in full before the Author's Note. A reporter in the film First Man is heard quoting the poem ('slipped the surly bonds of Earth') while describing the Gemini 8 mission that Neil Armstrong took ...
"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition , the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck. Lyrics
With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew, Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue;– Thinking only of her crested head – poor foolish thing! – At last Up jumped the cunning spider, and fiercely held her fast. VII. He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
G. S. Morris notes that "the lines 'Till some blind hand / Shall brush my wing' seem to follow the feathered shuttlecock directly into the little girl's racquet". [5] The poem catches the narrator in an act of thoughtlessness that leads to the contemplation of the act and its implications.
The Peter Quince of the title is the character of one of the "mechanicals" in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Stevens' poem titles are not necessarily a reliable indicator of the meaning of his poems, but Milton Bates suggests that it serves as ironic stage direction, the image of "Shakespear's rude mechanical pressing the delicate ...
suddenly, he unfurls and flaps his wings from the depths of his heart he lets out a cry, burning and bitter its meaning unknoen to other passing birds. Then, drunk from his invisible pain [the Phoenix] throws himselsf on the awesome fire. A violent wind blows, and the bird is burned up. The ashes of his body are collected up,
The poem's two-stanzas were originally formatted sideways across opposite pages on its first publication, making the likeness to two sets of wings more obvious. [5] Another pattern poem appearing near the start of his collection, The Temple, was "The Altar". There were three other poems in the shape of wings published later than Herbert's.