Poetry Flashcards
“I am Branded by an Impression of Sunlight”
The Emegrée
“Theirs Not to Make Reply,
Theirs Not to Reason Why,
Theirs But to Do and Die,”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“Someone Had Blunder’d”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“Lick Back Napoleon Battalion”
Checking Out me History
“Strange, it is a Huge Nothing that we Fear”
Storm on the Island
“Carted Off in the Back of a Lorry”
Remains
“Which Had Been the Better Way to Die”
Kamikaze
“Paper Smoothed and Stroked and Thinned to be Transparent”
Tissue
“Your Playground Voice Catching on the Wind”
Poppies
“How the Blood stained into Foreign Dust”
War Photographer
“Leaned Against it Like a Wishbone”
Poppies
“A Flask of Water, a Samurai Sword”
Kamikaze
“Rode the Six Hundred”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“I Carving Out me Identity”
Checking Out me History
“And de Cow Who Jumped Over de Moon”
Checking Out me History
“They that had Fought so Well”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“My Shadow Falls as Evidence of Sunlight”
The Emegrée
“Spasms of Paper Red”
Poppies
“Flashing Silver as their Bellies Swivelled Towards the Sun”
Kamikaze
“The Drink and the Drugs Won’t Flush Him Out”
Remains
“Threw up a Yellow Hare that Rolled Like a Flame”
Bayonet charge
“His Terrors Touchy Dynamite”
Bayonet charge
“And Never Wish to Build Again with Brick”
Tissue
“I See Every Round as it Rips Through His Life”
Remains
“The World Overflowing Like a Treasure Chest”
Poppies
“Hopeful Stream”
Checking Out me History
“Paper Thinned by Age or Touching”
Tissue
“Dem Tell Me Bout 1066 and All Dat”
Checking Out me History
“But Nothing Happens”
Exposure
“Written in the Names and Histories”
Tissue
“I Wander Through Each Chartered Street, Near Where the Chartered Thames Does Flow”
London
“Six-feet-under in Desert Sand”
Remains
“Nothing Beside Remains”
Ozymandias
“The Horizon’s Bound, a Huge Peak, Black and Huge”
The Prelude
“The Poignant Misery of Dawn Begins to Grow”
Exposure
“The Wizened Earth Has Never Troubled Us”
Storm on the Island