Poetry Qoutes Flashcards
Ozymandias
“King of kings”
“Nothing besides remains”
“Boundless and bare “
“The lone and level sands stretch far away”
London
“In each chartered street”
“In every infants cry of fear “
“Mind forged manacles”
“Black’ning churches”
Prelude
“Trouble to my dreams”
“Unknown modes of being”
“Blank desertion”
“Huge and mighty forms”
My last dutchess
” the curtain i have drawn for you”
“I gave commands”
“Never to stoop”
Light brigrade
“Plunged in the battery of smoke”
“Honour the light brigade”
Glorified murder
Exposure
“Wearied we keep awake”
“But nothing happsn”x3
“What are we doing here “
“Pause over half known faces”
Storm on the island
“Turned savage”
“Pummels”
“Huge nothing”
Bayonet charge
“Cold clockwork”
“Threw up a yellow hare”
“King honour human dignity etc”
Remains
“End of story but not really”
“Blood shadow”
“Possibly armed “possibly not
Drinks and drugs wont flush him out”
Poppies
“Armistices sunday”
“Reinforcements”
War photographer
“Ordinary pain”
“Living and they do not care”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”
Tissue
“Nothing meant to last”
“Paper thinned”
“A shift in the direction of the wind”
Emigree
“Sick with tyrants”
“Banned by the state”
“My city hides behined me l
Checking out me history
“Dem tell me “
“I carving out me identity “
“But dem never tell me about nanny de maroon”
Kamikaze
“As though he no longer exsisted”
“My mother never spoke again”
