Poetry quotes Flashcards
Bayonet charge - “suddenly ..
“suddenly he awoke and was running …”
Bayonet charge - “then the shot-slashed …
“then the shot-slashed furrows threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
Bayonet charge - “the patriotic …
“the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”
Bayonet charge - “In what cold …
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations, Was he the hand pointing that second?”
Bayonet charge - “his terror’s …
“his terror’s touchy dynamite”
Bayonet charge - “King, honour …
“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm”
Remains - “I swear I see ….
“I swear I see every round as it rips through his life”
Remains - “he’s here in my head …
“he’s here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines”
Remains - “his bloody life …
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Exposure - “our brains ache, ….
“our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us “
Exposure - “ we hear the mad …
” we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire like the twitching agonies of men “
Exposure - “pale flakes …
“pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
Exposure - “all their eyes …
“all their eyes are ice but nothing happens”
Exposure - “tonight, this frost …
“tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us”
COLB - “all in the …
“all in the valley of Death rode the six hundred”
