Poetry Flashcards
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Ozymandias
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
Ozymnadias
Sneer of cold command
Ozymandias
King of kings
Ozymandias
Colossal wreck, boundless and bare
Ozymandias
I wander through each chartered street
London
Marks of weakness, marks of woe
London
The mind-forged manacles I hear
London
Chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh
London
Plagues the marriage hearse
London
One summer evening led by her
Prelude
Troubled pleasure
Prelude
A huge peak, black and huge
Prelude
Lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake
Prelude
There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion
Prelude
My last Duchess
My Last Duchess
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
My Last Duchess
Taming a sea-horse
My Last Duchess
Valley of death
TCOTLB
Theirs not to make reply theirs not to reason why theirs to do and die
TCOTLB
Jaws of Death … mouth of Hell
TCOTLB
Someone had blunder’d
TCOTLB
Noble six hundred
TCOTLB
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 our dying
Exposure
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
Exposure
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 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
Tucks, darts, pleats
Poppies
The world overflowing like a treasure chest
Poppies
Release 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