Quotes Flashcards
Oxymandias
“Kings of kings”
“Antique”. “visage”
“Lone and level sands stretch far away”
London
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
“Infants cry”
“Black’ning church appalls”
Extract from, the prelude
“Huge and mighty forms”
“Huge peak, black and huge”
“Towered up between me and the stars”
My last duchess
“Then all smiles stopped together”
“Curtain I have drawn for you”
“Neptune though taming a sea-horse”
Charge of the light brigade
“Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die”
“Rode the 6 hundred”
“Jaws of death”
Exposure
“Merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“But nothing happened”
“Slowly our ghosts drag home”
Storm on the island
“We are prepared”
“Spits like a tamed cat turned savage”
“It is a huge nothing that we fear”
Bayonet charge
“Suddenly he awoke and was running”
“Dropped like luxuries”
“Terrors touchy dynamite”
Remains
“Blood shadow stays”
“The drink and drugs won’t flush him out”
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
Poppies
“Like a treasure chest”
“Released a song bird from its cage”
“Playground voice catching on the wind”
War photographer
“All flesh is grass”
“Half formed ghost”
“Editor will pick out five or six”
Tissue
“Pages smoothed”
“Transparent”
“Never meant to last”
The emigrée
“Once was a country”
“Paperweight”
“My city hides behind me”
Checking out me history
“Bandaged up me eye with me own history”
“Dem tell me”
“Checking out me own history”
Kamikaze
“One way journey into history”
“Remembered”
“No longer the father she loved”
