Love/Relationships Flashcards
Poppies by Jane Weir
Name 4 Quotes
“Three days before Armistice Sunday / and poppies had already been placed.”
“I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, / spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade.”
“I was brave, as I walked / with you, to the front door, threw / it open, the world overflowing / like a treasure chest.”
“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, / slowly melting. I was brave.
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Name 4 Quotes
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive.”
“She had / A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad.”
“The bough of cherries some officious fool / Broke in the orchard for her.”
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.”
The Émigrée by Carol Rumens
Name 4 Quotes
“There once was a country… I left it as a child / but my memory of it is sunlight-clear.”
“The worst news I receive of it cannot break / my original view, the bright, filled paperweight.”
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, / but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.”
“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes.”
Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland
Name 4 Quotes
“Her father embarked at sunrise / with a flask of water, a samurai sword.”
“The little fishing boats / strung out like bunting.”
“And though he came back / my mother never spoke again.”
“He must have wondered / which had been the better way to die.”
