Poetry quotes Flashcards
(25 cards)
who’s for the game
game- the biggest that’s played
who would rather
game- come back with a crutch
who’ll grip and
game- tackle the job unafraid?
who’ll give this
game- country a hand
and who wants
game- a seat in the stand
bent double like
dulce- old beggars under sacks
but limped on
dulce- blood-shod
he plunges at me guttering
dulce- choking, drowning
And watch the white eyes
dulce- writhing in his face
his hanging face like
dulce- a devil’s sick of sin
our brains ache in the merciless
exsposure- iced cast winds that knife us
watching we hear the mad gusts
exsposure- tugging on the wire
less deathly than air that shudders
exsposure- black with snow
pale flakes with fingering stealth come,
exsposure- feeling for our face
tonight, this frost will fasten
exsposure- on this mud and us
I see your light but ours
sentry- had long died out
The sentry’s body: his
sentry- rifle, handless
coaxing, I held a flame
sentry- against his lids
eyeballs huge
sentry- bulged like squids
watch my dreams still;
sentry- but forgot him there
he put a bullet
suicide- through his brain
in winter trenches
suicide- cowed and glum
slept soundlessly
suicide- through the lonesome dark
who grinned at
suicide- life in empty joy
