NATURE POEMS Flashcards
Death of a naturalist- Seamus Heaney
“all year the flax dam festerd in the heart of the townland”
“warm thick sober of frogspawn”
“the great slime kings gathered their for vengeance”
“invaded the flax dam”
“mud grenades”
“if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it”
The prelude- William Wordsworth
“and in the frosty season”
“it was a time of rapture clear and loud”
“and woodland pleases, the resounding horn”
“of melancholy not unnoticed”
“the orange sky of evening died away”
to autumn- John Keats
“seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness”
“close bosom friend of the maturing sun”
“where are the songs of spring? Ay where are they”
“thou hast thy music too”
“and gathering swallows twitter in the skies”
as imperceptibly as grief
“as imperceptibly as grief the summer lapsed away”
“a quietness distilled”
“a guest that would be gone”
“our summer made her light escape/ into the beautiful”
London- William Blake
“I wandered through each charter’d street”
“where the charters thames does flow”
“marks of weakness and of woe”
“hapless soliders sigh”
“blood runs now palace walls”
“and blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
living space-Imitzia Dharker
“there are just not enough straight lines”
“the dark edge of a slanted universe”
“eggs in a wire basket”
“nails clutch at open seems”
“the bright thin walls of faith”
ozymandius- percy byshee shelley
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“a broken visage of lies”
“my name is ozymandius king of kings”
“shear a cold command”
“look at my works ye mighty and despair”
“the lone Lebel land sands stretch far away”
hawk roosting- ted hughs
“I sit in the top of the wood my eyes closed”
“the convenience of the high trees”
“now I hold creation in my foot”
“the allotment of death”
“I am going to keep things like this”
afternoons- Peter Larkin
“summer is fading”
“their beauty thickens”
“at swing and sandpit”
“an estateful of washing”
“pushing them to the side of their own lives”
