Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Tinkled like iron
The prelude
William Wordsworth
Like an untir’d horse
The prelude
William Wordsworth
Where are the songs of spring, ay, where are they?
To autumn
John Keats
Where the chartered Thames does flow
London
William Blake
There were dragonflies, spotted butterflies
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Birds egg of a skull
Mametz Wood
Owen Sheers
Marriage hearse
London
William Blake
Winnowing wind
To autumn
John Keats
Thee sat careless on a granary floor
To autumn
John Keats
The orange sky of evening died away
The prelude
William Wordsworth
Mammy frog
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Blasts the newborn infant’s ear
London
William Blake
The wasted young
Mametz wood
Owen Sheers
20 men in one long grave
Mametz wood
Owen Sheers
Mid dance-macabre
Mametz Wood
Owen Sheers
Gnats mourn
To autumn
John Keats
Red breast
To autumn
John Keats
Marks of weakness marks of woe
London
William Blake
One hot day
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Festered
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Fume of poppies
To autumn
John Keats
Every blackening church appalls
London
William Blake
Runs in blood down palace walls
London
William Blake
I wandered through each chartered street
London
William Blake
An alien sound
The prelude
William Wordsworth
Not unnoticed
The prelude
William Wordsworth
Melancholy
The prelude
William Wordsworth
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun
To autumn
John Keats
Slipped from their absent tongues
Mametz wood
Owen Sheers
Slap and plop were obscene threats
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Poised like mud grenades
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
In every cry of every man
London
William Blake
Mind-forged manacles I hear
London
William Blake
King of kings
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveler from an antique land
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
Like the night
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
The summer lapsed away
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
How do I love thee?
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not a cute card or a kissogram
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
Or nature spending with herself
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
Shattered visage
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
One shade the more one ray the less
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
Cloudless climes and starry skies
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Between my hooked head and my hooked feet
Hawk roosting
Ted Hughes
The sun is behind me
Hawk roosting
Ted Hughes
Every day’s most quiet need
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Into the beautiful
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
Sequestered afternoon
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
Not a red rose or a satin heart
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
The frozen river which ran through his face
The manhunt
Simon Armitage
Possessive and faithful
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
A courteous yet harrowing grace
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
Without a wing or service of a keel
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
The fetus of metal beneath his chest
The manhunt
Simon Armitage
Sweating unexploded mine
The manhunt
Simon Armitage
