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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.
John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) [1] [2] [3] was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.
He indicates that his mind entered this realm, which would be physically entered by astronautics pioneers like Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard. John Gillespie Magee, Jr. became an astronaut in his imagination, and a 44 years after his own tragic death, US President Ronald Reagan would recite his poem when honoring the Challenger astronauts.
The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems. New Directions Publishing. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8112-1143-7. John Frederick Nims., selected for the New York Public Library's Ninety from the Nineties. The Kiss: A Jambalaya (1982) Selected poems. University of Chicago Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-226-58118-7. Of Flesh and Bone (1967)
John F. Deane (born 1943 on Achill Island) is an Irish poet and novelist. [1] He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. [2] [3] John F. Deane at Feile na Greine, Tech Amergin, Waterville. 2012
An English translation of the full lyrics from 'Touching the Sky' by Rauw Alejandro. Translation by TODAY.com: I feel like I’m touching the sky. Your smile takes me. How we are looking at each other
In the Clearing is a 1962 poetry collection by Robert Frost. It contains the poem "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration", much of which Frost had composed to be read at President Kennedy's inauguration but could not. The book is also known for "Kitty Hawk", the book's longest poem, which muses on the Wright Brothers' accomplishment in manned ...
The title derives from a line in the poem "XVI – (How clear, how lovely bright)", from More Poems, by A. E. Housman, a favourite poet of Dexter and Morse: "Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day."