Poetry (first And Last Lines) Flashcards
Ozymandias
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“The lone and level sands stretch far away”
London
“I wonder through each chartered street”
“And blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
Extract from the prelude
“One summer evening (led by her) I found”
“By day, and were a trouble to my dreams”
My last duchess
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall”
“Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me”
The charge of the light brigade
“Half a league”
“Noble six hundred”
Exposure
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“But nothing happens”
Storm on the Island
“We are prepared: we build our houses squat”
“Strange it is a huge nothing that we fear”
Bayonet charge
“Suddenly he awoke and was running -raw”
“His terror’s touchy dynamite”
Remains
“On another occasion, we get sent out”
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
Poppies
“Three days before Armistice Sunday”
“Your playground voice catching on the wind”
War photographer
“In his darkroom he is finally alone”
“He earns his living and they do not care”
Tissue
“Paper that lets the light”
“Turned into your skin”
The emigreé
“There once was a country… I left it as a child”
“And my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
Checking out me history
“Dem tell me”
“I carving out me identity”
Kamikaze
“Her father embarked at sunrise”
“Which had been the better way to die.”
