Poems Flashcards
I wander through each
chartered street (London)
marks of weakness,
marks of woe (London)
The mind-forged
manacles I hear (London)
the chimney sweepers cry…
hapless soldier’s sigh (London)
plagues the
marriage hearse (London)
Every blackning
Church appalls (London)
Our brains ache, in the
merciless iced east winds that
knive us… (Exposure)
But nothing happens
(Exposure)
forgotten dreams, and stare,
snow-dazed (Exposure)
we turn back to
our dying (Exposure)
sudden successive flights of
bullets streak the silence (Exposure)
tucks, darts, pleats
(Poppies)
the world overflowing/
like a treasure chest (Poppies)
released a song bird
from its cage (Poppies)
leaned against it
like a wishbone (Poppies)
hoping to hear. Your playground voice
catching on the
wind (Poppies)
Spasms of red,
Disrupting a blockade of yellow (poppies)
Sellotape
Bandaged around my hand (poppies)
One- way journey
Into history (kamikaze)
The dark shoals of fishes flashing
Silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun (kamikaze)
They treated him
As though he no longer existed (kamikaze)
He must have wondered
Which had been the better way to die (kamikaze)
He had never returned,
That this was no longer the Father we loved (kamikaze)
Two vast and
trunkless legs of stone (Ozymandias)
Half sunk,
a shattered visage lies (Ozymandias)
sneer of
cold command (Ozymandias)
king of
kings (Ozymandias)
colossal wreck,
boundless and bare (Ozymandias)
One summer evening
(led by her) (The Prelude)
troubled
pleasure (The Prelude)
a huge peak,
black and huge (The Prelude)
lustily, I dipped my
oars into the silent lake (The Prelude)
there hung a darkness,
call it solitude / or blank desertion (The Prelude)
half-flush that
dies along her throat (My Last Duchess)
My gift of a
nine-hundred-years-old name (My Last Duchess)
I gave commands; /
Then all smiles stopped together (My Last Duchess)
Notice Neptune,
though, taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity (My Last Duchess)
valley of
death (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
theirs not to make reply/
theirs not to reason why/ theirs but
to do and die (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
jaws of Death/
…mouth of Hell (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
someone had
blunder’d (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
Noble
six hundred (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
We are prepared
(Storm on the Island)
spits like a tame cat/
turned savage (Storm on the Island)
exploding comfortably
(Storm on the Island)
But there are no trees,
no natural shelter (Storm on the Island)
We are bombarded
by the empty air (Storm on the Island)
bullets smacking the
belly out of the air- (Bayonet Charge)
he lugged a rifle numb as
a smashed arm (Bayonet Charge)
patriotic tear
(Bayonet Charge)
a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/
And crawled in a threshing circle (Bayonet Charge)
king, honour,
human dignity, etcetera (Bayonet Charge)
On another occasion
(Remains)
probably armed,
possibly not (Remains)
rips through
his life (Remains)
tosses his guts
back into his body (Remains)
his bloody life
in my bloody hands (Remains)
then he’s carted off
in the back of a lorry (Remains)
But his
blood-shadow still remains (Remains)
And the drink and
the drugs won’t flush him out (Remains)
And he’s dug in
behind enemy lines (Remains)
