Request for poems about pilots

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Greetings poetry fans! I'm doing research about early female pilots and aviators and it got me thinking about poems - so please give me your favourite poems about pilots, aviators or flying in general? Thanks muchly!


In the mean time have my favourite Catullus poem - it has absolutely nothing to do with flying but shows that human nature has not changed in the slightest since it was written nearly 2000 years ago:

Wonder not, Rufus, why none of the opposite sex
wishes to place her dainty thighs beneath you,
not even if you undermine her virtue with gifts of choice
silk or the enticement of a pellucid gem.
You are being hurt by an ugly rumour which asserts
that beneath your armpits dwells a ferocious goat.
This they fear, and no wonder; for it's a right rank
beast that no pretty girl will go to bed with.
So either get rid of this painful affront to the nostrils
or cease to wonder why the ladies flee.

Comments

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

Ohh yes! That is possibly my favorite one. "An Irish Airman Forsees his Death (http://www.bartleby.com/148/3.html)" also comes to mind.

PS: Why hello, OP! Fancy meeting you here. :D

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

*waves* I'm doing research for femgenficathon. I may have to take that icon too, for research of course. :D

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

I made that one (and this one, too, which is relevant! A little), so feel free! :D

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

You are an icon machiiiiine. Thanks!

It took me an embarrassingly long time to get the Catullus icon, I must admit.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

I love how much fun the narrator is having, thanks for posting it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lyra_b/]

That's the one I was going to suggest, as well. My late father was a pilot and he always loved that poem.

[teithiwr.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Especially

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue

- that's just wonderful.