Airplane Poems

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1. The Airplane

   by Annette Wynne

   I like to see the airplane and hear the buzzing sound,
   And see it settle like a bird quite safely on the ground;
   I like to see it spread its wings just like a butterfly—
   You'd think perhaps 'twould find a star to light on in the sky.
   

2. In an Airplane

   by Doris Kenyon

   Gently the ground sank from me ere I knew;
   My heart leaped up as breaking earth's last bond;
   The trees in huge bouquets a moment swayed
   Like rushes round a pond.
   Busy within their pigmy colonies,
   Below I saw the toiling human ants—
   Then they were gone. Ah! now I know whence come
   Our dreams; they dwell where sunrays wink and glance
   Among the rose-hued clouds which break away
   In fragments, as soft breezes earthward play;
   And sailing by, I saw dim forms that knelt
   Before an altar like pale nuns in gray.
   I was a bird—on pinions wide I swept
   Upward, forever upward still I kept;
   I felt no earthly fetter binding me,
   For I, at last, was free.
   

3. The Birds Discuss the Aeroplane

   by Anonymous

   
   

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   Said the Owl: "It's a marvel! I never have heard
   Of such a gigantic, impossible bird."
   

   Said the Vulture: "Its wings are of awkward design,
   But as big as a hundred, a thousand, of mine."
   

   Said the Swallow: "It's one of the funniest things,
   For often I've seen it with two pairs of wings."
   

   Said the Thrush: "What a clatter and whir are its cries!
   And it won't sing a note except when it flies."
   
   

   Said the Eagle: "It climbs most amazingly high;
   I've met it a mile or more up in the sky."
   

   Said the Buzzard: "It soars with a beautiful grace,
   And it curves and it dives at a wonderful pace."
   

   Said the Duck: "I have seen one afloat on the sea,
   That rose from the water exactly like me."
   

   Said the Hawk: "It's astounding! Again and again
   I've seen the bird capture and carry off—men!"
   

   "But sometimes it tumbles," the Whippoorwill said,
   "And lies on the ground like a bundle of lead."
   

   "And one," said the Crane, "with a terrible sound
   Exploded, and fell, all afire, to the ground."
   

   "Dear me!" said they all, "what a puzzling affair!
   It's the queerest of creatures that fly in the air!"
   

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