Poetry Flashcards
When We Two Parted
“Pale grew thy cheek and cold”
“With silence and tears”
“A knell in mine ear”
Love’s Philosophy
“Why not I with thine?”
“If thou kiss not me?”
“And moonbeams kiss the sea”
Porphyria’s Lover
“And give herself to me forever”
“Three times her little throat around”
“And yet God had not said a word”
Sonnet 29 - ‘I think of thee’
“As wild vines about a tree”
“I do not think of thee, I am too near thee”
“My thoughts do twine and bud”
Neutral Tones
“And a pond edged with greyish leaves”
“They had fallen from an ash”
“The smile on your face was the deadest thing”
Letters From Yorkshire
“My heartful of deadlines”
“It’s not romance”
“Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles”
The Farmer’s Bride
“And turned the key upon her fast”
“The brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!”
“She turned afraid”
Walking Away
“Like a satellite wrenched”
“And love is proved in letting go”
“Eighteen years ago, almost to the day”
Eden Rock
“They’re waiting for me somewhere”
“I had not thought it would be like this”
“As if lit by 3 suns”
Follower
“I was the nuisance, tripping, falling”
“Behind me and will not go away”
“An expert”
Mother, Any Distance
“Mother, any distance greater than a single span”
“To fall or fly” / “Anchor. Kite.”
“With a spool of tape, recording”
Before You Were Mine
“Marilyn”
“Sparkle & waltz & laugh before you were mine”
“I’m not here yet”
Winter Swans
“Icebergs of white feather”
“Like a pair of wings settling after flight”
“The clouds had given their all”
Singh Song!
“Tiny eyes of a gun”
“Cos up di stairs is my newly bride”
“It’s priceless baby”
Climbing My Grandfather
(Soft and white at this altitude)
“The slow pulse of his good heart”
“For climbing has its dangers”
