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Famous Flyer Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Flyer poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous flyer poems. These examples illustrate what a famous flyer poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Corso, Gregory
...tributed its
 categorical blue I sing thee Bomb Death's extravagance Death's jubilee
 Gem of Death's supremest blue The flyer will crash his death will differ
 with the climbor who'll fall to die by cobra is not to die by bad pork
Some die by swamp some by sea and some by the bushy-haired man in the night
 O there are deaths like witches of Arc Scarey deaths like Boris Karloff
 No-feeling deaths like birth-death sadless deaths like old pain Bowery
 Abandoned deaths like Capit...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...e, 
Keep clear of the cards and keep clear of the booze, 
And fortune in season will answer your prayer 
And send you a flyer like Mulligan's mare....Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
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Next week, under "Seller and Buyer", 
Appeared in the Daily Gazette: 
"A racehorse for sale, and a flyer; 
Has never been started as yet; 
A trial will show what his pace is; 
The buyer can get him in light, 
And win all the handicap races. 
Apply before Saturday night." 

He sold for a hundred and thirty, 
Because of a gallop he had 
One morning with Bluefish and Bertie. 
And donkey-licked both of 'em bad. 
And when the old horse had depa...Read more of this...

by Pound, Ezra
...od,
Over the whale's acre, would wander wide.
On earth's shelter cometh oft to me,
Eager and ready, the crying lone-flyer,
Whets for the whale-path the heart irresistibly,
O'er tracks of ocean; seeing that anyhow
My lord deems to me this dead life
On loan and on land, I believe not
That any earth-weal eternal standeth
Save there be somewhat calamitous
That, ere a man's tide go, turn it to twain.
Disease or oldness or sword-hate
Beats out the breath from doom-gripped b...Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert
...>
They must brood where they fell in mulch and mire,
Trusting feathers and inward fire
Till daylight made it safe for a flyer.
My greater grief was by so much reduced
As I though of them without nest or roost.
That was how that grief started to melt.
They tell me the cottage where we dwelt,
Its wind-torn thatch goes now unmended;
Its life of hundred of years has ended
By letting the rain I knew outdoors
In on to the upper chamber floors....Read more of this...



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