Poetry Flashcards

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When We Two Parted- Lord Byron
“When we two parted _ _______ ___ ______”
“Half broken-hearted to _____ for years”

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In silence and tears

Sever

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Love’s philosophy - Shelley
“The fountains ______ with the river”
“L__ D_____”

A

Mingle

Law divine

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Porphyria’s Lover - Browning
“That moment she was ____,____,____ perfectly pure and good”
“Only,this time __ ________ ____ ___ ____”

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Mine,mine,fair

My shoulder bore her head

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Sonnet 29 - I think of thee! - Barrett Browning
“W___ _____, A____ _ ____”
“Breathe within thy shadow a ___ ___”

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Wild vines, about a tree

New air

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Neutral tones - Hardy

“Since then, keen lessons that ____ ________

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Love deceives

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Letters from Yorkshire - Dooley
“Feeding words onto a _____ ______”
“Our souls tap out messages across the ___ _____”

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Blank screen

Icy miles

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The Farmer’s bride - Mew
“Turned the ___ ____ ___, fast”
“ Sweet as the first ____ ______, she,
To her wild self. ___ ____ __ __?”

A

Key upon her, fast

Wild violets. But what to me?

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Walking away - Day-Lewis
“Like a _________
_______ ____ ___ _____ go ________ away”
“H___ -______ _____ set free into a __________”

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Satellite. Wrenched from its orbit… drifting

Half-fledged thing… wilderness

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Eden Rock - Causley
“ They are waiting for me _________ ______ ____ ____”
“The sky whitens as if lit by _____ ____”

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Somewhere beyond Eden rock

Three suns

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Follower - Heaney
“An ______”
“I ________ in his hob-nailed wake”

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Expert

Stumbled

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Mother,any distance - Armitage
“A_____, ____”
“C____”
“R____”

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Anchor, Kite
Climb
Reach

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Before you were mine - Duffy
“M______”
“My hands in those ____-______ ___ _____, _____”

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Marilyn

High-heeled red shoes, relics

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Winter swans -Sheers
“The \_\_\_\_\_\_ had given their all”
“S\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_
Until the swans came”
Hands had “\_\_\_\_ \_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_”
A

Clouds
Silent and apart
Swum the distance

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Singh Song! -Nagra
“But ven nobody in, _ __ __ ____”
“M_ _____”
“Is _______ baby”

A

I do di lock
My bride
Priceless

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Climbing my grandfather - Waterhouse
“I decide to do it ____, _______ ____ __ ___”
“Climbing has its _______”

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Free, without rope or net

Dangers

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