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Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
With Wings as Eagles is a 1943 Australian radio play verse drama by Edmund Barclay and Joy Hollyer about three airmen in World War Two. It was submitted to the ABC as part of the ABC's 1943 verse drama competition. The play was considered by the Judges one of the four best in the competition, which was won by The Golden Lover. [3] [4]
With wings which I have won for myself, In love's fierce striving, I shall soar upwards To the light which no eye has penetrated! I shall die in order to live. Rise again, yes, rise again, Will you, my heart, in an instant! What you have conquered, To God shall it carry you!
On Eagle's Wings" is a devotional hymn composed by Michael Joncas. Its words are based on Psalm 91 , [ 1 ] Book of Exodus 19, and Matthew 13 . [ 2 ] Joncas wrote the piece in either 1976 [ 3 ] or 1979, [ 1 ] [ 4 ] after he and his friend, Douglas Hall, returned from a meal to learn that Hall's father had died of a heart attack. [ 5 ]
The end rhymes add to the lyrical sense of the poem and the soothing, soaring nature of the eagle. This poem is one of Lord Tennyson's shortest pieces of literature. It is composed of two stanzas, three lines each. Contrary to the length, the poem is full of deeper meaning and figurative language.
The poem is in the form of an allusive riddle whose subject is Eros, the god of love, but where the only hint of his wings is contained in the adjective referring to him, “swift-flying”. [1] These poems and their like were later imitated in Renaissance Neo-Latin verse [2] and the fashion then spread to vernacular literatures as well.
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...
Flowers for Hitler contains 95 rhymed and free-verse poems, avant-garde texts, and pictorial elements. It was the first of his books to include Cohen's drawings. Only 20 of the poems directly address World War II and the Holocaust. In the poems, Cohen explores the banality of evil, "using the Holocaust as the highest known point of human evil".