Main Quotes Flashcards
List the quotes for ‘The Manhunt’
“after passionate nights and intimate days”
“only then would he let me” (repeated twice)
“trace/the frozen river which ran through his face”
“explore/the blown hinge of his lower jaw”
“handle and hold/the damaged, porcelain collar-bone”
“mind and attend/the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade”
“finger and thumb/the parachute silk of his punctured lung”
“broken ribs”
“grazed heart”
“foetus of metal”
“Then I widened the search”
“sweating, unexploded mine/ buried deep in his mind”
“tightened and closed./ Then, and only then, did I come close”
List the quotes for ‘Sonnet 43’
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/My soul can reach”
“ends of Being and ideal Grace”
“to the level of every day’s/Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”
Repetition of “I love thee”
“I love thee freely”
“I love thee purely”
“In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith”
“I love thee with a love I seemed to lose”
“I love thee with the breath,/Smiles, tears of all my life! -“
“if God choose,/I shall but love thee better after death”
List the quotes for ‘London’
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street”
“charter’d Thames”
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“In every” repeated three times
“In every Infant’s cry of fear”
“mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
“Every black’ning Church appalls”
“Runs in blood down Palace walls”
“youthful Harlot’s curse”
“Blasts the new born Infant’s tear”
“blights with plagues the Marrige hearse”
List the quotes for ‘The Soldier’
“If I should die, think only this of me”
“some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England”
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed”
“A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware”
“A body of England’s, breathing English air”
“Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home”
“And think, this heart, all evil shed away”
“A pulse in the eternal mind”
“sights and sounds”
“dreams happy as her day”
“laughter, learnt”
“hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
List the quotes for ‘To Autumn’
“Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfullness!”
“Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”
“the vines that round the thatch-eaves”
“swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells”
“Until they think the warm days will never cease”
“Summer has o’erbrimm’d their clammy cells”
“sitting careless on a granary floor”
“Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind”
“thy hook/Spares the next swath”
“gleaner” “cyder-press”
“Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours”
“Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?”
“the soft-dying day”
“in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”
“full-grown lambs loud bleat”
“gathering swallows twitter in the skies”
List the quotes for ‘Ozymandias’
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“shattered visage”
“wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”
“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed”
“king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“Nothing beside remains”
“Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck”
“boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away”
List the quotes for ‘She Walks in Beauty’
“She walks in beauty, like the night”
“Of cloudless climes and starry skies”
“best of dark and bright”
“tender light/Which heaven to gaudy day denies”
“One shade the more, one ray the less”
“nameless grace”
“waves” “lightens”
“serenely sweet”
“dwelling-place” (her thoughts)
“So soft, so calm, yet eloquent”
“days in goodness spent”
“A mind at peace with all below,/A heart whose love is innocent”
List the quotes for ‘Living Space’
“There are just not enough/straight lines”
“That is the problem”
“Nothing is flat/or parallel”
“Beams/balance crookedly on supports/thrust off”
“Nails clutch at open seams”
“The whole structure leans dangerously/towards the miraculous”
“In this rough frame,/someone has squeezed/a living space”
“even dared to place these eggs in a wire basket”
“fragile curves of white”
“dark edge”
“slanted universe”
“light”
“bright, thin walls of faith”
List the quotes for ‘Valentine’
“Not a red rose or a satin heart”
“I give you an onion” x 2
“It is a moon wrapped in brown paper”
“It promises light/like the careful undressing of love”
“It will blind you with tears/like a lover”
“It will make your reflection/a wobbling photo of grief”
“I am trying to be truthful”
“Not a cute card or a kissogram”
“It’s fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
“possessive and faithful”
“Take it”
“a wedding-ring,/if you like”
“Lethal”
“It’s scent will cling to your fingers,/cling to your knife”
List the quotes for Excerpt from ‘The Prelude’
“frosty season”
“The cottage window through the twilight blaz’d”
“I heeded not the summons”
“time of rapture”
“village clock toll’d six”
“wheel’d about”
“Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse”
“hiss’d along the polished ice”
“The Pack loud bellowing”
“flew”
“Meanwhile, precipices rang aloud”
“leafless trees, and every icy crag”
“Tinkled like iron”
“alien sound”
“Of melancholy, not unnoticed”
“The orange sky of evening died away”
List of quotes for ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”
“Knock-kneed, coughing like hags”
“Men marched asleep”
“All went lame; all blind”
“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling”
“under a green sea, I saw him drowning.”
“in all my dreams, before my helpless sight”
“He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”
“you too could pace”
“white eyes writhing”
“like a devil’s sick of sin”
“Obscene as a cancer, bitter as the cud”
“innocent tongues”
“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
