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Two vast and trunkless legs

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Ozymandias

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Sneer of cold command

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Ozymandias

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair

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Ozymandias

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level sands stretch far away

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Ozymandias

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each chartered street…mark in every face

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London

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every cry of every man / every infants cry of fear

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London

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mind-forged manacles

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London

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black’ning church appalls…runs in blood down palace walls

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London

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It’s usual home

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The Prelude

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Melted all into one track of sparkling light

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The Prelude

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As if with voluntary power instinct

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The Prelude

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My brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense

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The Prelude

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No pleasant images of trees

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The Prelude

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Like living men, moved slowly through the mind

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The Prelude

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Looking as if she were alive

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My Last Duchess

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‘Twas not her husband’s presence only that called that spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek

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My Last Duchess

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17
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How she ranked my gift of nine hundred years name with anybody’s gift

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My Last Duchess

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18
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I gave commands / Then all smiles stopped together

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My Last Duchess

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19
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Though his fair daughter’s self … is my object

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My Last Duchess

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20
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Rode the six hundred / left of six hundred / noble six hundred

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Was there a man dismay’d

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Cannon to the right of them … left of them … in front of them

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Storm’d at with shot and shell

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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When can their glory fade?

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
Exposure
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But nothing happens
Exposure
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Like a dull rumour of some other war
Exposure
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We only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy
Exposure
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Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
Exposure
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Is it that we’re dying?
Exposure
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Slowly our ghosts drag home
Exposure
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For love of God seems dying
Exposure
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We are prepared
Storm on the Island
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You know what I mean
Storm on the Island
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Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
Storm on the Island
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It is a huge nothing we fear
Storm on the Island
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Suddenly he awoke and was running
Bayonet Charge
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Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
Bayonet Charge
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The patriotic tear that had brimmed his eye
Bayonet Charge
40
In what cold clockwork ... Was he the hand pointing that second?
Bayonet Charge
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King, honour, human dignity, etcetera / Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
Bayonet Charge
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His terror’s touchy dynamite
Bayonet Charge
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On another occasion we get sent out / to tackle looters
Remains
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Probably armed, possibly not
Remains
45
So all three of us open fire
Remains
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I swear / (enjambment) / I see every round as it rips through his life
Remains
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I see broad daylight on the other side
Remains
48
Tosses his guts back into his body
Remains
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End of story, except not really
Remains
50
Then I’m home on leave. But I blink
Remains
51
Drink and the drugs won’t flush him out
Remains
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He’s here in my head when I close my eyes / dig deep behind enemy lines
Remains
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His bloody life in my bloody hands
Remains
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Before you left / I pinned one onto your lapel, crumpled petals, / spasms of red
Poppies
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Steeled the softening of my face
Poppies
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Run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair
Poppies
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A split second and you were away, intoxicated
Poppies
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I went into your bedroom / released a songbird from its cage ... dove flew from the pear tree
Poppies
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Skirting the church yard walls
Poppies
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I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind
Poppies
61
In his darkroom he is finally alone / with spools of suffering
War Photographer
62
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass
War Photographer
63
His hands, which did not tremble then / but seem to now
War Photographer
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Fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in nightmare heat
War Photographer
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Half-formed ghost
War Photographer
66
A hundred agonies in black-and-white / from which his editor will pick out five or six
War Photographer
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The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers
War Photographer
68
He earns his living and they do not care
War Photographer
69
Paper that lets light shine through, this is what could alter things
Tissue
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The kind you find in well used books, the back of the Koran
Tissue
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Who died ... on which sepia date
Tissue
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Pages ... turned transparent with attention
Tissue
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If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift
Tissue
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Fine slips from grocery shops
Tissue
75
What was paid ... might fly our lives like paper kites
Tissue
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Find a way to trace with grand design / (enjambment) / with living tissue
Tissue
77
Turned into your skin
Tissue
78
There once was a country ... I left it as a child
The Emigree
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The worst news ... cannot break my original view
The Emigree
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It may be sick with tyrants
The Emigree
81
The white streets of that city
The Emigree
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As time rolls it’s tanks
The Emigree
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That child’s vocabulary ... opens and spills a grammar
The Emigree
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It tastes of sunlight
The Emigree
85
They accuse me of being dark in their free city
The Emigree
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My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight
The Emigree
87
Dem tell me / Dem tell me / Wha dem want to tell me
Checking out me History
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Blind me to me own identity
Checking out my History
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1066 and all dat / Dick Whittington and he cat
Checking out me History
90
Toissaint de beacon of de Haitian Revolution
Checking out me History
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De man who discover de balloon / de cow who jump over de moon ... never tell me bout Nanny de maroon
Checking out me History
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Nanny / see-far woman
Checking out me History
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Florence Nightingale ... never tell me bout Mary Seacole
Checking out me History
94
A yellow sunrise to the dying
Checking out me History
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I carving out me identity
Checking out me History
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A shaven head / full of powerful incantations
Kamikaze
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Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history
Kamikaze
98
Recounting it later to her children
Kamikaze
99
Like a huge flag ... the dark shoals of fishes ... swivelled towards the sun
Kamikaze
100
- yes, grandfather’s boat -
Kamikaze
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We children still chattered and laughed / till gradually we too learned to be silent
Kamikaze
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This was no longer the father we loved
Kamikaze
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He must have wondered / which had been the better way to die
Kamikaze

English - Power And Conflict Quotes (1 decks)

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