Key Quotes Flashcards
The Manhunt
“The parachute silk of his punctured lung”
“Skirting along”
“The foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“Unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”
Sonnet 43
“Let me count the ways”
“Depth and breadth and height”
“By sun and candlelight”
“I love thee purely as they turn from praise”
“I shall but love thee better after death”
London
“Chartered”
“Cry of every man”
“Cry of fear”
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
The soldier
“If I should die think only this of me”
“Foreign field that is forever England”
“A pulse in the eternal mind”
“Under an English heaven”
“All evil shed away”
She walks in beauty
“She walks in beauty like the night”
“Cloudless climes and starry skies”
“Which heaven to gaudy day denies”
“Nameless grace”
Living space
“Crookedly”
“Slanted universe”
“Dark edge”
“Eggs in a wire basket”
“Fragile”
“Squeezed”
As imperceptibly as grief
“The summer lapsed away”
“A quietness distilled”
“Harrowing grace”
“The morning foreign shone”
Cozy apologia
“Chainmail glinting, to set me free”
“Big bad Floyd”
“Fall short of divine”
“It’s embarrassing, this happiness”
“I fill this stolen time with you”
Valentine
“I give you an onion”
“It will blind you with tears”
“A wobbling photo of grief”
“It’s fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
“Possessive”
“It’s scent will cling to your fingers”
A wife in London
“She sits in tawny vapour”
“He-has fallen- in the far south land…”
“The fog hangs thicker”
“Page-full of his hoped return”
“And of new love that they would learn”
“His hand, whom the worm now knows”
Death of a naturalist
“Bubbles gargled delicately”
“The warm thick slobber of frogspawn”
“Then one hot day when the fields were rank”
“A coarse croaking”
“Poised like mud grenades”
“That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it”
Hawk roosting
“Are of advantage to me”
“Perfect kills and eat”
“I hold creation in my foot”
“I kill where I please because it’s all mine”
“No sophistry in my body”
“I am going to keep things like this”
To autumn
“Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness”
“Fruit”
“Ripeness”
“Hours by hours”
“Where are the songs of spring”
“Soft-dying day”
“Mourn”
Afternoons
“Summer is fading”
“Setting free their children.”
“The hollows of the afternoons”
“An estate full of washing”
“Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives”
Dulce et decorum est
“Drunk with fatigue”
“As under a green sea I saw him drowning”
“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, I saw him guttering,choking, drowning”
“His hanging face like a devil sick of sin”
“Incurable sores on innocent tongues”
“Children”
“The old lie”
