Quotes For Poems Flashcards
Ozymandias
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
“sneer of cold command”
“king of kings”
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
London
“I wander through each chartered street”
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
“plagues the marriage hearse”
The prelude
“One summer evening (led by her)”
“troubled pleasure”
“a huge peak, black and huge”
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”
My last duchess
“Thats my my last Duchess painted on the wall”
“half-flush that dies along her throat”
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”
“Fra pandolf” “Claus of innersbrook”
Charge of light brigade
“valley of death”
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”
“Noble six hundred”
Exposure
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
“But nothing happens”
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
“we turn back to our dying”
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Storm on the island
“We are prepared”
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
“exploding comfortably”
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
“We are bombarded by the empty air”
Bayonet charge
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“
“he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
“patriotic tear”
“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in a threshing circle”
“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
Remains
“On another occasion”
“probably armed, possibly not”
“rips through his life”
“tosses his guts back into his body”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Poppies
“tucks, darts, pleats”
“the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”
“released a song bird from its cage”
“leaned against it like a wishbone”
“hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
War Photographer
“In his darkroom he is finally alone”
“Tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”
“He has a job to do”
Checking out me history
“Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat”
“Dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat
But Toussaint L’Ouverture
No dem never tell me bout dat”
“Bandage up me eye with me own history”
Kamikaze
“journey into history / but half way there”
“And though he came back, my mother never spoke again in his presence”
“Only we children still chattered and laughed, till gradually we too learned to be silent”
“that this was no longer the father we loved”
“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die”
