Eavan Boland Flashcards
Child of Our Time
“I”, “You”, “We”
Child of Our Time
“no lullaby”
Child of Our Time
“This song”
Child of Our Time
“your final cry”
Child of Our Time
“it tune”
Child of Our Time
“cannot listen”
Child of Our Time
“And living, learn, must learn from you, dead”
Child of Our Time
“our idle talk has cost”
Child of Our Time
“our times have robbed your cradle”
The War Horse
“nothing unusual”
The War Horse
“clip, clop, causal”
The War Horse
“stamps death”
The War Horse
“no great harm is done”
The War Horse
“distant” -> “maimed limb”
The War Horse
“Blown” -> “screamless dead”
The War Horse
“we, we are safe”
The War Horse
“why should we care”
The War Horse
“like corpses, remote, crushed, mutilated”
The War Horse
“Thankfullly passing us”
The War Horse
“burned” , “braid”
The War Horse
“A cause ruined before, a world betrayed”
The Famine Road
“Idle as trout”
The Famine Road
“going nowhere of course”
The Famine Road
“a case like yours”
The Famine Road
“blood their knuckles”
The Famine Road
“the other’s buttocks”
The Famine Road
“spores”
The Famine Road
“they know it and walk clear;” “typhoid pariah”
The Famine Road
“take it well woman” “good-bye”
The Famine Road
“wretches”
The Famine Road
“Barren” “Famine road”
This Moment
“Things are getting ready”
This Moment
“out of sight”
This Moment
“Stars and moths
And rinds slanting”
This Moment
“One tree is black
One window is yellow as butter”
This Moment
“This Moment “
This Moment
“Star rise
Moths flutter”
The Pomegranate
“legend”
The Pomegranate
“love and blackmail”
The Pomegranate
“I can enter it anywhere. And have”
The Pomegranate
“later”
The Pomegranate
“Searching for my daughter at bed-time”
The Pomegranate
“inescapable” “for me”
The Pomegranate
“it is winter”
The Pomegranate
“plate of uncut fruit” “The Pomegranate!”
The Pomegranate
“I could waen her. There is still a chance”
Love
“Dark falls” -> “Dusk”
Love
“we one lived when myths collided”
Love
“hero crossed”
Love
“our old apartment”
Love
“love had the feather and muscle of wings”
Love
“touched by death” “spared”
Love
“a life they had shared and lost”
Love
“we love each other still”
Love
“we speak plainly. we hear each other clearly”
Love
“and yet I want to return to you” “as you were”
Love
“a hero in a text - the image blazing”
Love
“epic question me dear companion:
Will we ever live so intensely again”
Love
“you cannot hear me.
You walk away and i cannot follow”
