Poetry-love Poems Flashcards

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Farmers bride

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  • we chased her
  • like a leveret
  • up in the attic there alone
  • I chose a maid
  • others in the house than we
  • her hair,her hair!
  • like a mouse
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Loves philosophy

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  • mountains kiss the heavens
  • law divine
  • why not with thine?
  • why not kiss thyne?
  • fountains mingle with the rivers
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Porphyria’s lover

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  • shut out the cold
  • sullen wind
  • when glided in porphyria
  • golden hair
  • three times around her little neck
  • beneath thy burning kiss
  • and yet god has not said a word
  • mine, mine perfectly pure
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When we two parted

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  • like a knell in my ear
  • share in its shame
  • severe
  • in silence and tears
  • I grieve
  • dew of the morning
  • colder,colder thy kiss
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Winter swans

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  • swam the distance
  • like weights rolling down their necks
  • they mate for life
  • icebergs of white feathers
  • the sky has given their all
  • stilling water
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Neutral tones

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  • strength to die
  • ash tree
  • greyish leaves
  • your smile is the deadest things
  • we stood by a pond that winters day
  • wrings with wrong
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Singh song!

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  • like ve rowing through Putney
  • hey did vet ya bin
  • you’re bananas are plantain
  • tiny eyes of a gun
  • my newly bride
  • tummy of a teddy
  • it’s priceless baby
  • worst Indian shop on the whole Indian road
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Sonnet 29

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  • palm tree
  • I shall not have my thoughts instead of thee
  • renew thy presence
  • set my trunk all bear
  • I am too near to thee
  • my thoughts do twine and bud
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