
Calico Pie http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html, st. 1 (1871).
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Calico Pie http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html, st. 1 (1871).
“The birds can fly,
An' why can't I?”
" Darius Green and his Flying-Machine http://books.google.com/books?id=GwsaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+birds+can+fly+An'+why+can't+I%22&pg=PA115#v=onepage," Our Young Folks: an illustrated magazine ( March 1867 http://books.google.com/books?id=4eOvXvxRjZYC&q=%22The+birds+can+fly+An'+why+can't+I%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage).
“Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then, oh why can't I?”
'"Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Context: Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops,
That's where you'll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then, oh why can't I?
“With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.”
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
“MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.”
The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)
“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
From The Ancient Sage (1885), line 154