Quotes

Question 1

3 quotes from when we two parted

Answer 1

• pale grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy kiss
• silence and tears
• they name thee before me, a knell to mine ear

Question 2

3 quotes from love’s philosophy

Answer 2

• the fountains mingle with the river
• and the sunlight clasps the earth
• what are all these kissings worth if thous kiss not me?

Question 3

3 quotes from porphyria’s lover

Answer 3

• that moment she was mine, mine, fair
• blushed bright beneath my burning kiss
• no pain felt she; i am quite sure she felt no pain

Question 4

3 quotes from sonnet 29

Answer 4

• the straggling green which hides the wood
• i think of thee!/ i do not think of thee
• renew thy presence/ rustle thy boughs

Question 5

3 quotes from neutral tones

Answer 5

• the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
• leaves lay on the starving sod (grass-covered earth)
• keen lessons that love deceives

Question 6

3 quotes for walking away

Answer 6

• like a satellite wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away
• like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem
• gnaws at my mind still

Question 7

3 quotes from letters from yorkshire

Answer 7

• feeding words onto a blanks screen
• his knuckles singing
• our souls tap out messages across the icy miles

Question 8

3 quotes from eden rock

Answer 8

• they are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock
• a screw of paper for a cork; slowly sets out
• my father, twenty-five, in the same suit

Question 9

3 quotes from follower

Answer 9

• stumbling behind me, and will not go away
• i stumbled in his hob-nailed wake
• the sod rolled over without breaking

Question 10

3 quotes from mother, any distance

Answer 10

• unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite.
• to breaking point, where something has to give
• to fall or fly

Question 11

4 quotes from before you were mine

Answer 11

• marilyn.
• I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on
• where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine
• high-heeled red shoes, relics

Question 12

3 quotes from winter swans

Answer 12

• hands/ swum the distance between us
• ‘they mate for life’ you said
• like boats righting in rough weather

Question 13

4 quotes from singh song!

Answer 13

• like vee rowing through Putney
• making fun at my daddy
• in di worst indian shop on di whole indian road
• my bride x3

Question 14

3 quotes from climbing my grandfather

Answer 14

• i decide to do it free, without a rope or net
• to a smiling mouth
• i discover the glassy ridge of a scar

Question 15

3 quotes from the farmer’s bride

Answer 15

• we caught her, fetched her home at last
• her eyes, her hair, her hair!
• we chased her, flying like a hare
• when us was wed she turned afraid