Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Farmer’s Bride Quotes
“I chose a maid”
“Little, frightened fay”
“Sweet as the first wild violets”
“Her eyes, her hair, her hair”
Walking Away Quotes
“Like a satellite/wretched from its orbit/go drifting away”
“Half-fledged thing set free/into a wilderness”
Porphyria’s Lover Quotes
“The sullen wind was soon awake/it tore the elm-tops down in spite”
“As a shut bud that holds a bee/I wearily oped her lids”
“That moment she was mine, mine, far/perfectly good and pure”
When We Two Parted Quotes
“Sever for years”
“Colder thy kiss”
“They name thee before me/a knell in my ear”
“After long years/How should I greet thee?/with silence and tears”
Follower Quotes
“His shoulders globed like a full sail”
“An expert”
“Today/it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me, and will not go away”
“I stumbled in his job-nailed wake”
Mother Any Distance Quotes
“Acres of walls, the prairies of the floors”
“You at the zero end”
“Anchor. Kite”
“I space walk through empty rooms”
Sonnet 29 Quotes
“My thoughts do twine and bud/about thee, as wild vines about a tree”
“Let these bands of greenery which inspire thee/drop heavily down - burst, shattered, everywhere”
Letters from Yorkshire Quotes
“My heartful of headlines/feeding words onto a blank screen”
“Icy miles”
“Word of that other world/pouring air and light into an envelope”
Singh Song Quotes
“She effing at my mum/in all the colours of Punjabi”
“My bride…tiny eyes ov a gun/and di tummy of a teddy”
“It’s priceless baby”
Winter Swans Quotes
“The waterlogged earth/gulping for breath at our feet”
“In the dark water/icebergs of a white feather”
“Porcelain over stilling water”
“Our hands…folding…like a pair of wings settling after flight”
Neutral Tones Quotes
“Grin of bitterness”
“Since then, keen lessons that love deceives”
“God-curst sun”
Love’s Philosophy Quotes
“The fountains mingle with the river”
“Law divine”
“The waves clasp one another”
“What are all these kissings worth,/If thou kiss not me?”
Eden Rock Quotes
“They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”
“The sky whitens as if lit by three suns”
“Crossing is not as hard as you might think”
Before You Were Mine Quotes
“Marilyn”
“My loud, possessive yell”
“My hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics”
“Sparkle and waltz and laugh”
Climbing My Grandfather Quotes
“I decide to do it free, without rope or net”
“Glassy ridge” “Summit”
“Climbing has its dangers”
“Knowing/the slow pulse of his good heart”
