poetry - love and relationships Flashcards
what are the three main quotes for When We Two Parted?
- “Cold, colder thy kiss”
- “A knell in mine ear”
- “How should I greet thee? With silence and tears”
what are the three main quotes for Winter Swans?
- “The waterlogged earth gulping for breath”
- “I noticed our hands, that hand, somehow, swum the distance between us?”
- “Folded, one over the other, like a pair of wings settling after flight”
what are the three main quotes for Neutral Tones?
- “A few leaves lay on the starting sod”
- “Smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”
- “A grin of bitterness swept thereby”
what are the three main quotes for The Farmer’s Bride?
- “We caught her, fetched her home”
- “I chose a maid”
- “The brown of her - her eyes, her hair, heir hair!”
what are the three main quotes for Porphyria’s lover?
- “At last I knew Porphyria worshipped me”
- “She was mine, mine, fair … And strangled her. No pain felt she”
- “All night long we have not stirred, and yet God has not said a word”
what are the three main quotes for Sonnet 29 - I think of thee?
- “My thoughts do twine and bud about thee”
- “Renew thy presence: as a tree should”
- “And breathe within thy shadow a new air, I do not think of thee - I am too near thee”
what are the three main quotes for Love’s philosophy?
- “The fountains mingle with the river, and the rivers with the ocean”
- “The mountains kiss high heaven”
- “What are all these kissing worth, if thou kiss not me”
what are the three main quotes for Letters From Yorkshire?
- “It’s not romance, simply how things are”
- “You out there seeing the seasons turning, me with my heart full of headlines”
- “Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles”
what are the three main quotes for Singh Song?
- “In di worst indian shop on do whole indian road”
- “I do di lock cos up di stairs is my newly bride”
- “My bride she effing at my mum”
what are the three main quotes for Walking Away?
- “Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”
- “Love is proved in letting go”
- “like a satellite wretched from its orbit”
what are the three main quotes for Follower?
- “Shoulders globed like a full sail strung”
- “I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always”
- “But today it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me, and will not go away”
what are the three main quotes for Eden Rock?
- “Milk straight from an old HP sauce bottle”
- “Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light”
- “The sky whitens as if lit by three suns”
what are the three main quotes for Before You Were Mine?
- “Red shoes, relics.”
- “The decade ahead of my loud possessive yell,p was the best one”
- “Your ghost clatters toward me”
what are the three main quotes for Mother, Any Distance?
- “I space-walk through the empty bedrooms”
- “Anchor.Kite”
- “Your fingertips still pinch the last one hundredth of an inch”
what are the three main quotes for Climbing My Grandfather?
- “The glassy ridge of a scar”
- “The slow pulse of his good heart”
- “The skin of his fingers is smooth and thick like warm ice”
