Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Manhunt Quotes:
“the frozen river which ran through his face”
“damaged, porcelian collarbone”
“parachute silk”
“foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“unexploded mine”
“then, and only then, did i come close”
The Soldier Quotes:
“If I should die”
“richer dust”
“a pulse in the eternal mind”
“hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
She Walks in Beauty Quotes
“She walks in beauty, like the night”
“all thats best of dark and bright”
“A heart whose love is innocent”
Living Space Quotes
“nails clutch at open seams”
“eggs in a wire basket”
“the bright, thin walls of faith”
As Imperceptibly as Grief quotes
“As twilight long begun”
“The dusk drew earlier in -/The morning foreign shone”
“Our Summer made her light escape./Into the Beautiful”
Cozy Apologia quotes
“I could pick anything and think of you”
“dappled mare” “silver stirrups” “chain mail glinting”
“thin as liquorice and as chewy”
“I fill this stolen time with you”
Valentine quotes
“it is a moon wrapped in brown paper”
“it will blind you with tears”
“its fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
“cling to your fingers, / cling to your knife”
A Wife in London quotes
“she sits in the tawny vapour”
“the street lamp glimmers cold”
“He - has fallen - in the far South Land…”
“His hand, whom the worm now knows”
Death of a Naturalist quotes
“bubbles gargled delicately”
“warm thick slobber” “daddy frog” “mammy frog”
“poised like mud grenades”
“If i dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it”
Hawk Roosting quotes
“in sleep rehearse perfect kills”
“I sit in the top of the wood”
“I kill where I please because it is all mine”
“My manners are tearing off heads”
“I am going to keep things like this”
Prelude quotes
“It was a time of rapture”
“I heeded not the summons”
“we hiss’d along”
“through the darkness and cold we flew”
“an alien sound of melancholy”
“the orange sky of evening passed away”
