Poetry Quotations Flashcards

(70 cards)

1
Q

I met a traveller

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from an antique land (Ozymandias)

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2
Q

Trunkless

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Legs of stone (Ozymandias)

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3
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Half sunk

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A shatter visage lies (Ozymandias)

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4
Q

Sneer of

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Cold command (Ozymandias)

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5
Q

The hand that

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mocked them (Ozymandias)

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6
Q

My name is

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Ozymandia, King of Kings

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7
Q

Nothing be-

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Besides remains (Ozymandias)

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8
Q

Round the

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decay of that colossal wreck (Ozymandias)

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9
Q

Boundless

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And bare (Ozymandias)

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10
Q

The lone

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and level sands stretch far away (Ozymandias)

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11
Q

I wonder through

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Through each chartered street
Where the chartered Thames does flow (London)

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12
Q

Marks of

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Weakness marks of woe (London)

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13
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In every cry

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Of every man
In every infants cry of fear
In every voice of every ban (London)

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14
Q

Mind

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Forged manacles (London)

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15
Q

Chimney

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sweepers cry (London)

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16
Q

Every Black’ning

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church appalls (London)

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17
Q

Runs in blood

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Down palace walls (London)

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18
Q

Youthful

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Harlots curse (London)

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19
Q

Blights with

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plagues the marriage hearse (London)

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20
Q

That’s my

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Last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive (My Last Duchess)

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21
Q

That spot

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of joy (My Last Duchess)

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22
Q

Faint half-flush

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That dies along her throat (My Last Duchess)

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23
Q

She liked whate’er

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she looked on and her looks went everywhere (My Last Duchess)

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24
Q

As if she ranked

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The gift of my nine-hundred-years old name with anybody gift (My Last Duchess)

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I chose never
to snoop (My Last Duchess)
26
I gave comm-
commands and all smiles stopped together (My Last Duchess)
27
Though his fair
daughters self as I avowed at starting is my object (My Last Duchess)
28
Notice
Neptune though Taming a sea horse (My Last Duchess)
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All in the va-
The Valley of death (Charge of the Light Brigade)
30
Rode the
Six hundred (Charge of the Light Brigade)
31
Theirs not to
Make reply Theirs not to Reason why Theirs but to do and die (Charge of the Light Brigade)
32
Cannon
To the right of them Cannon to the left of them Cannon in front of him (Charge of the Light Brigade)
33
Into the
Jaws of death Into the mouth of hell
34
Flash'd all
Their Sabres bare
35
All the world
Wondered (Charge of the Light Brigade)
36
While horse
And hero fell (Charge of the Light Brigade)
37
Then they rode
Back but not not the six hundred (Charge of the Light Brigade)
38
When can their
Glory fade? (Charge of the Light Brigade)
39
We are prepared
We build our houses squat (Storm on the Island)
40
Wizened
Earth has never troubled us (Storm on the Island)
41
Leaves and branches
Can raise a tragic chorus (Storm on the Island)
42
You can listen
To the thing you fear Forgetting it pummels your house too (Storm on the Island)
43
Exploding
Comfortable down on the hills (Storm on the Island)
44
Spits like
A tame cat turned savage (Storm on the Island)
45
We are bombarded
by empty air (Storm on the Island)
46
It is a huge
Nothing that we fear (Storm on the Island)
47
One of them
Legs it up the road (Remains)
48
Probably
Armed, possibly not (Remains)
49
Well myself
And somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind (Remains)
50
So all three
Three of us open fire (Remains)
51
I see each
Round as it rips through his life I see broad daylight on the other side (Remains)
52
Pain
Itself the image of agony (Remains)
53
Carted off
In the back of a lorry (Remains)
54
His blood
Shadow stays in the street an out on patrol I walk right over it week after week (Remains)
55
But I blink
And he bursts again through the doors of the bank (Remains)
56
He's probably
armed possibly not (Remains)
57
Hes torn
apart by a dozen rounds (Remains)
58
Hes here in
My head as I close my eyes Dug in behind enemy lines (Remains)
59
Not left for
Dead in some distant sun-stunned sand-smoothed land or six feet under in desert sands (Remains)
60
His bloody
Life in my bloody hands (Remains)
61
Spools of
Suffering set out in ordered rows (War Photographer)
62
All flesh
IS grass (War Photographer)
63
Fields which
Don't explode beneath the feet of running children in nightmare heat (War Photographer)
64
Half-formed
Ghost (War Photographer)
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He sought approval
Without words to do what someone must (War Photographer)
66
Blood stained
Into foreign dust (War Photographer)
67
A hundred
Agonies in black-and-white (War Photographer)
68
His editor will
Pick five or six for Sundays suppliement (War Photographer)
69
The readers eyeballs
Will pick with tears between bath and pre-lunch beers (War Photographer)
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Where he earns
His living and they do not care (War Photographer)