Love Poem Quotes Flashcards

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1
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She walks in Beauty like the night

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of cloudless climes and starry skies

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And all that’s best of dark and bright

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meet in her aspect and her eyes

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3
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Thus mellowed to that tender light

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that heaven to gaudy day denies

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4
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One shade the more, one ray the less

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had half impaired the nameless grace

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5
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Which waves in every raven tress

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or softly lightens o’er her face

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6
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Where thoughts serenely sweet express

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how pure how dear their dwelling place

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7
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And on that cheek, and o’er that brow

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so soft so calm yet eloquent

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8
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The smiles that win the tints that glow

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but tell of days in goodness spent

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9
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A mind at peace with all below

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A heart whose love is innocent

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10
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After the first phase

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After passionate nights and intimate dates

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11
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Only then would he let me trace

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The frozen river which ran through his face

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12
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Only then would he let me explore

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the blown hinge of his lower jaw

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13
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and handle and hold

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the damaged porcelain collar bone

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14
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And mind and attend

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the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade

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15
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and finger and thumb

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the parachute silk of his punctured lung

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16
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only then could i bind the struts

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and climb the rungs of his broken ribs

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17
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and feel the hurt

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of his grazed heart

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18
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skirting along

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only then could I picture the scan

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19
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the foetus of metal beneath his chest

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Where the bullet had come to rest

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20
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Then I widened the search

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traced the scarring back to its source

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21
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to a sweating unexploded mine

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buried deep within his mind

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22
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every nerve in his body had tightened and closed

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and only then did I come close

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23
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Not a red rose

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Or a satin heart

24
Q

I give you an onion

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It is a moon wrapped in brown paper

25
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It promises light

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Like the careful undressing of love

26
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Here

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It will blind you with tears

27
Q

Like a lover

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It will make your reflection

28
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A wobbling photo of grief

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I am trying to be truthful

29
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Not a cute card

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or a kissogram

30
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I give you an onion

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It’s fierce kiss will stay of your lips

31
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possessive and faithful

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As we are, for as long as we are

32
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Take it

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It’s platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring

33
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If you like

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Lethal

34
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Its scent will cling to your fingers

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Cling to your knife

35
Q

I could pick anything and think of you

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This lamp, the rain, the glossy blue

36
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My pen exudes drying matte upon the page

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I could choose any hero, cause or age

37
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And sure as shooting arrows to the heart

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Astride a dappled mare legs braced far apart

38
Q

As standing in silver stirrups will allow

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There you’ll be with furrowed brow

39
Q

And chainmail glinting, to set me free

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One eye smiling the other firm upon the enemy

40
Q

This post post-modern age is all business compact disks

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And faxes, a do it now and take no risks

41
Q

Event. Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast

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oddly male, big bad Floyd who rings a host

42
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Of daydreams awkward reminisces

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or teenage crushes on worthless boys

43
Q

whose only talent was to kiss you senseless

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They all had sissy names: Marcel Percy Dewey

44
Q

Thin as liquorice and just as chewy

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Sweet with a dark and Hollow centre, Floyd’s

45
Q

Cussing up a storm You’re bunkered in your

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Aerie I’m perched in mine

46
Q

Twin Desks computers, Hardwood floors

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We’re content but fall short of the divine

47
Q

Still its embarrassing this happiness

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Who’s satisfied simply with what’s good for us

48
Q

When has the ordinary ever been news

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And yet because nothing else will do

49
Q

To keep me from Melancholy (call it blues)

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I fill this stolen time with you.

50
Q

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

51
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My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

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For the ends of being and ideal grace.

52
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I love thee to the level of every day’s

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Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

53
Q

I love thee freely, as men strive for right;

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I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

54
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I love thee with the passion put to use

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In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

55
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I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

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With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,

56
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Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

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I shall but love thee better after death.