 | 1986 - 472 pagine
...days after Pearl Harbor, but he left something that does live on — that poem. It says: "Oh, I've slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies...wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling north of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of. Wheeled and soared and... | |
 | 1971 - 482 pagine
...bearing a Lunar Rover Vehicle. After a ringing salute to the space pioneers of NASA's first decade — "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings . . . and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of" — the ceremony was climaxed with a massed-band... | |
 | Jan Kuebart - 1995 - 464 pagine
...Theoriebereichen verfestigt und weiter fortentwickelt. Hamburg, im März 1995 Univ.-Prof. Dr. H.-J. Kleineidam High Flight Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter - silvered wings; sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -... | |
 | Michael S. Piazza - 1996 - 86 pagine
...he wrote a few months before his death speaks beautifully of how resurrection people ought to live: "Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; I've chased the shouting wind along and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagine
...(1754-1824) French essayist, moralist. Pensées, eh. 12 (1842), trans, by and ed. HP Collins (1928). 2 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;... And while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pagine
...no dead. John Gillespie Magee 1922-41 American airman, member of the Royal Canadian Airforce 8 Oh! 1 have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. •High Flight' (I94î); cf. Reagan 623:7 9 And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high,... | |
 | Mark Gottdiener - 2001 - 230 pagine
...England. Soon after, in 1941, he was killed at age 19 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced...— and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov 'ring there. I've chased the shouting... | |
 | Frances Ashcroft - 2002 - 354 pagine
...following poem, written long before space flight was possible, came close to capturing its essence: Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced...laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, ... - and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlight silence... | |
 | Jane Peart - 2009 - 242 pagine
...memorial service. The poem was attributed to John Magee, a British pilot who had been killed in action. I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter's silvered wings: Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth Of sunlit clouds, and... | |
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Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... 
