GCSE English Literature - Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Hawk Roosting (Quote 1)
“I sit at the top of the wood, my eyes closed.”
Hawk Roosting (Quote 5)
“I am going to keep things like this.”
Hawk Roosting (Quote 2)
“And the earth’s face upward for my inspection.”
Hawk Roosting (Quote 3)
“I kill where I please because it is all mine.”
Hawk Roosting (Quote 4)
“My manners are tearing off heads -“
A Wife in London (Quote 1)
“She sits in the tawny vapour”
A Wife in London (Quote 2)
“The messenger’s knock cracks smartly.”
A Wife in London (Quote 3)
He - has fallen - in the far South Land…”
A Wife in London (Quote 4)
“His hand, whom the worm now knows:”
A Wife in London (Quote 5)
“And of new love that they would learn.”
The Manhunt (Quote 1)
“After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days,”
The Manhunt (Quote 2)
“only then would he let me explore the blown hinge of his lower jaw,”
The Manhunt (Quote 3)
“Only then could I bind the struts and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,”
The Manhunt (Quote 4)
“To a sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind,”
The Manhunt (Quote 5)
“every nerve in his body had tightened and closed. Then, and only then, did I come close.”
