Quotes Flashcards
(69 cards)
“He - has fallen-
in the far south land”
AWIL
“After the first phase
/ after passionate nights and intimate days”
The Manhunt
The fog
hangs thicker
AWIL
trace the frozen river
which ran through his face
The Manhunt
His hand,
whom the worm now knows
AWIL
the damaged,
porcelain collar-bone
The Manhunt
flashed news
is in her hands
AWIL
feeling for the hurt
/ the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade,
The Manhunt
The street lamp
glimmers cold
AWIL
closer
The manhunt
Page full of
his hoped return
AWIL
only then
did i come close
The Manhunt
If I should die, think only this of me
/ that theres some corner of a foreign field / that is forever England
The soldier
For years afterwards the farmers found them
/ the wasted young
Mametz Wood
In hearts at peace,
under an English heaven,
The soldier
The earth
stands sentinel
Mametz Wood
A body of England’s,
breathing english air,
The soldier
Twenty men buried
in one long grave
Mametz wood
And think, this heart
all evil shed away
The soldier
The blown and
broken birds’ eggs
Mametz Wood
In hearts
at peace
The soldier
the bones
stirred in the ground
Mametz Wood
Some corner
of a foreign field
The soldier
slipped from
their absent tongues
Mametz Wood