Power And Conflict Quote Memorisation Flashcards
London
‘M o w, m o w’
‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’
London
‘M-f m I h’
‘Mind-forged manacles I hear’
London
‘h s s // R i b d p w’
‘hapless soldier’s sigh // Runs in blood down palace walls’
London
‘t y h c’
‘the youthful harlot’s curse.’
London
‘b w p t M h’
‘blights with plagues the Marriage hearse’
Storm on the Island
‘W a p’
‘We are prepared’
Storm on the Island
‘W j s t w w d’
‘We just sit tight while wind dives’
Storm on the Island
‘L t t t y f // F t i p y h t’
‘Listen to the thing you fear // Forgetting that it pummels your house too’
Storm on the Island
‘I i a h n t w f’
‘It is a huge nothing that we fear’
Exposure
‘O b a, i t m i e w t k u // W w k a b t n i s’
‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us . . . // Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . //’
Exposure
‘T m g t o t w’
‘The mad gusts tugging on the wire’
Exposure
‘P o h-k f. T e a i’
‘Pause over half-known faces. Their eyes are ice’
Exposure
‘I i t w a d?’
‘Is it that we are dying?’
Exposure
‘B n h’
‘But nothing happens’
Remains
‘O a o, w g s o’
‘On another occasion, we got sent out’
Remains
‘I s e r a i r t h l’
‘I see every round as it rips through his life - //‘
Remains
‘S w h t l a d t’
‘So we’ve hit this looter a dozen times’
Remains
‘O o m m g b a t h g b i h b’
‘One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body’
Remains
‘B n t t k, h a n, h b l i m b h’
‘But near to the knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands.’
Ozymandias
‘I m a t f a a l’
‘I met a traveller from an antique land’
Ozymandias
‘A w l, a s o c c’
‘And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command’
Ozymandias
‘T h t m t, a t h t f’
‘The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed’
Ozymandias
‘L o m w, y m, a d’
‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair’
Ozymandias
‘O t c w’
‘Of that colossal Wreck’
The Emigrée
‘I l i a a c… b m m o i i s c’
‘I left it as a child… but my memory of it is sunlight clear’
The Emigrée
‘T w n I r c b // m o v’
‘The worst news I receive of it cannot break // my original view.’
The Emigrée
‘I m b a w, i m b s w t, // b i a b b a i o s’
‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, // but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.’
The Emigrée
‘T c v I c h // l a h d”
‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here // like a hollow doll’
The Emigrée
‘I c I h a l i s e’
‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes.’
The Emigrée
‘M c h b m. T m d // a m s f a e o s’
‘My city hides behind me. They mutter death, // and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’
The Emigrée
‘T a m o a, t c m’
‘They accuse me of absence, they circle me.’
