Poetry Flashcards
(14 cards)
When we two parted
“When we two parted in silence and tears, half broke. Hearted to sever for years”
“ in secret we met- in silence I grieve that thy heart could forget they spirit could deceive”
Loves philosophy
“Nothing in this world is single; all things by law divine in one another’s being mingle why not I thine”
“And the sunlight clasps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea what are all these kissing worth if thou kiss not me?”
Porphyria’s lover
“I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in porphyria; straight she shut the cold out and the storm”
“That moment she was mine, mine, fair and perfectly pure and good: I found a thing to do, and all her yellow hair in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around and strangled her”
Letters from Yorkshire
“ still it’s you who sends me word of the other world pouring air and light into an envelope”
“You out there, in the cold , seeing the seasons turning me with my heart full of headlines feeding words into a blank screen”
Sonnet 29
“My thoughts do twine and bud about the as wild vines about a tree”
“Drop heavily down- burst shattered everywhere”
Neutral tones
“Since then, keen lessons that love deceives and wrongs with wrong”
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die and grin of bitterness swept thereby like an ominous bird a wing”
The farmers bride
“Her smile went out, and wasn’t a woman more like a little frightened fay”
“Oh my god the down the soft young down of her, the brown, the brown of her eyes her hair her hair”
Winter swans
“The waterlogged earth gulping for breath at our feet as we skirted the lake silent and apart”
Walking away
“ like a satellite wrenched form your orbit drifting away”
“Your walking away from me towards the school with the pathos of a half fledged thing set free”
Eden rock
“ they are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden rock”
“They beckon to me from the other bank”
Follower
“His shoulders gloved like a full sail strung”
“I was a nuisance trilling falling yapping always but today it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me and will not go away”
Mother any distance
“Your fingers still pinch the last one hundredth of an inch”
“Anchor kite “is
Before you were mine
“The glamorous love lasts where you sparkle and Waltz and laugh before you were mine”
Climbing my grandfather
“Knowing the slow pulse of his good heart”
“On his arm I discover the glassy ridge of a scar, place my feet gently in the old stitches and move on “
