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3 quotes from Ozymandias
‘nothing besides remains’
‘my name is ozymandias, king of kings!’
‘shattered visage lies’
3 quotes from London
‘runs of blood down palace walls’
‘in every cry of every man’
‘every black’ning church appals’
3 quotes from Prelude
‘she was an elfin pinnace’
‘upreared its head’
‘one summer evening (led by her)’
3 quotes from My Last Duchess
‘my last duchess painted on the wall’
‘looking as if she were alive’
‘the curtain i have drawn for you’
3 quotes from Charge of the Light Brigade
‘rode the six hundred’
‘honour the charge they made!’
‘into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell’
3 quotes from Exposure
‘merciless ice east winds that knive us’
‘but nothing happens’
‘for love of god seems dying’
3 quotes from Storm On The Island
‘its a huge nothing we fear’
‘spits like a tame cat turned savage’
‘we are prepared’
3 quotes from Bayonet Charge
‘suddenly he awoke’
‘stumbling across a field’
‘towards a green hedge’
3 quotes from Remains
‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’
‘tosses his guts back into his body’
‘rips through his life’
3 quotes from Poppies
‘released a song bird from its cage’
‘binding around your blazer’
‘spasms of paper red’
3 quotes from War Photographer
‘in his darkroom he is finally alone’
‘the only light is red and softly glows’
‘he earns his living and they do not care’
3 quotes from Tissue
‘might fly our lives like paper kites’
‘pages smoothed and stroked and turned’
‘paper that lets the light shine through’
3 quotes from The Emigree
‘i left it as a child’
‘it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants’
‘bright, filled paperweight’
3 quotes from Checking Out Me History
‘dem tell me’
‘blind me to me own identity’
‘i carving out me identity’
3 quotes from Kamikaze
‘which had been the better way to die’
‘as though he no longer existed’
‘my mother never spoke again in his presence’
