Romantic Poem Quotes

Question 1

Negative Romantic Love

Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning

Answer 1

‘Sullen wind was soon awake’
‘Porphyria worshipped me’
‘Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss’
‘God has not said a word’

Question 2

Negative Romantic Love

The Farmer’s bride - Charlotte Mew

Answer 2

‘Her smile went out’
‘Like a mouse’
‘Shy as a leveret’
‘The brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair’

Question 3

Negative Romantic Love

When We Two Parted - Lord Byron

Answer 3

‘In silence and tears’
‘Half broken hearted’
‘In secret we met - in silence I grieve’

Question 4

Negative Romantic Love

Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy

Answer 4

‘Few leaves lay on the starving sod’
‘Smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive’
‘Like an ominous bird a-wing’
‘The god-curst sun’

Question 5

Positive Romantic Love

Sonnet 29 - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Answer 5

‘My thoughts do twine and bud’
‘O my palm-tree’
‘Burst, shattered everywhere’
‘I do not think of thee - I am too near thee’

Question 6

Positive Romantic Love

Love’s Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 6

‘The fountains mingle with the river’
‘Nothing in the world is single’
‘The mountains kiss high heaven’
‘Sunlight clasps the Earth’

Question 7

Positive Romantic Love

Singh Song - Daljit Nagra

Answer 7

‘My newly bride’
‘Made luv like vee rowing through Putney’
‘Is priceless baby’

Question 8

Positive Romantic Love

Winter Swans - Owen Sheers

Answer 8

‘Clouds given their all’
‘They mate for life’
‘Swum the distance between us’
‘Like a pair of wings settling after flight’