 | Government publications - 1986 - 472 pages
...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... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1971 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...WILBUR D. NESBIT, "A Song for Flag Day," stanza 1, The Trail to Boyland, p. 96 (1904). Flying 603 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the...wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark nor ever eagle flew— And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity... | |
 | Gabriel Taschereau - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 348 pages
...qui est devenu un classique dans les annales du Corps d'Aviation Royal Canadien. High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the...wind-swept heights with easy grace — Where never lask, or even eagle flew And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity... | |
 | Kristin Gilpatrick - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 156 pages
...Europe. He wrote this poem in 1941, just a few months before he was killed in an airplane crash. Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the...wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls... | |
 | Muriel Whitaker - Fiction - 2001 - 300 pages
...war to be bound in loyalty and a kind of love. There are adventurers who like the young RCAF pilot "slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughtersilvered wings" and the disillusioned volunteers who exchanged heroic anticipations for victimization. There are the... | |
 | Elinor De Wire - Nature - 2002 - 420 pages
...how to gather and submit data. (The address is listed at the end of Chapter 11.) Metallic Stars Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. . . — John Gillespie Magee, Jr. ith their eyes alone our ancestors saw only authentic celestial objects... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - Philosophy - 2002 - 142 pages
...might lead us to discover the mind of God. INTIMATIONS OF A BEYOND 10 GlJMPSINd THE FACE OF GOD Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... put out my hand and touched the face of God. Might our hopes and fears allow us to do the same? Or... | |
 | Richard H. Graham - History - 264 pages
...who had the slightest interest in airplanes and the wonders of flight. The poem is as follows: "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 —... | |
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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 - and done a hundred things you Have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung, High... 
