poetry Flashcards
1
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half broken
A
hearted to sever for years
2
Q
pale grew thy
A
cheek and cold
3
Q
and share in
A
its shame
4
Q
a knell in
A
mine ear
5
Q
in secret we met
A
in silence i grieve
6
Q
and the waves
A
clasp one another
7
Q
and the moonbeams
A
kiss the sea
8
Q
the winds of
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Heaven mix for ever
9
Q
nothing in the
A
world is single;
10
Q
all things by
A
a law divine
11
Q
when glided
A
in porphyria
12
Q
that moment she was
A
mine, mine, fair
13
Q
perfectly pure
A
and good
14
Q
as a shut bud
A
that holds a bee
15
Q
blushed bright beneath
A
my burning kiss
16
Q
the smiling little
A
rosy head
17
Q
and yet God has
A
not said a word!
18
Q
as wild vines
A
about a tree
19
Q
o my
A
palm tree
20
Q
set thy trunk
A
all bare
21
Q
bands of
A
greenery which insphere thee
22
Q
drop heavily down -
A
burst, shattered, everywhere!
23
Q
i do not think of thee-
A
i am too near thee
24
Q
starving
A
sod
25
the smile on your
mouth was the deadest thing
26
like an ominous
bird a wing
27
wrings with
wrong
28
your face, and the God curst sun
and a tree
29
fallen from an
ash and were grey
30
digging his garden
planting potatoes
31
heartful of
headlines
32
is your life more real
because you dig and sow?
33
our souls tap out messages
across the icy miles
34
word of that
other world
35
still,
its you
36
like the shut
of a winter's day
37
more like a
little frightened fay
38
lying awake with
her wide brown stare
39
we chased her,
flying like a hare
40
we caught her,
fetched her home
41
shy as a leveret
swift as he
42
sweet as the first
wild violets
43
Oh! my God!
the down, the soft young down of her
44
the brown of her -
her eyes, her hair, her hair!
45
like a satellite
wrenched from its orbit
46
the pathos of a
half fledged thing
47
into a
wildnerness
48
like a winged seed
loosened from its parent stem
49
the small, the scorching
ordeals which fire's one irresolute clay
50
how selfhood begins
with a walking away
51
my father, 25
in the same suit
52
my mother, 23
in a sprigged dress
53
her hair, the colour of
wheat takes on the light
54
the same 3 plates
the tin cups painted blue
55
the sky whitens as
if lit by three suns
56
they beckon me from
the other bank
57
i had not thought
it would be like this
58
his shoulders globed
like a full sail strung
59
his eye
narrowed and angled at the ground
60
i stumbled in
his hob-nailed wake
61
all i ever did
was follow
62
i was a nuisance
tripping, falling
63
but today it is
my father who keeps stumbling
64
mother any distance
greater than a single span
65
the acres of the walls,
the prairies of the floors
66
spool of tape, recording length
reporting metres, centimetres back to base
67
anchor.
kite.
68
the ladder to
the loft, to breaking point
69
...i reach
to wards a hatch
70
on an endless sky
to fall or fly
71
your polka dot dress blows
round your legs. Marilyn.
72
in the ballroom with the thousand
eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows
73
the decade ahead of my loud, possessive
yell was the best one eh?
74
high heeled
red shoes, relics
75
your ghost clatters
towards me
76
cha cha cha!
stamping stars from the wrong pavement
77
where you sparkle and waltz and
laugh before you were mine
78
the clouds had
given their all
79
the waterlogged
earth
80
we skirted the lake
silent and apart
81
a show of tipping
in unison
82
icebergs of white
feather
83
like boats righting
in rough weather
84
porcelain over
the stilling water
85
slow stepping in
the lakes shingle and sand
86
like a pair of wings
settling after flight
87
like vee rowing
through putney
88
above my head high
heel tap di ground
89
in all di
colours of punjabi
90
my bride
she wear a tartan sari
91
vee cum down
whispering stairs
92
and sit on
my silver stool
93
i discover the
glassy ridge of a scar
94
to stare into his
brown eyes, watch a pupil
95
soft and white
at this altitude reaching for the summit
96
watching clouds
and birds circle
