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Flashcards by Caitlin Flynn, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Caitlin Flynn
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| When We Two Parted Lord Byron | "In silence and tears" "Half broken-hearted" "Colder thy kiss" "Thy vows are all broken" "Why wert thou so dear?" "In silence I grieve" |
| Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley | "The fountains mingle with the the river" "With a sweet emotion" "Nothing in the world is single" "Why not I with thine?" "Kiss" "If thou kiss not me?" |
| Porphyria's Lover Robert Browning | "The sullen wind was soon awake" "She shut the cold out and the storm" "Too weak" "Porphyria worshipped me" "That moment she was mine, mine, fair" "And strangled her" "As a shut bud that hold a bee" "And yet God has not said a word!" |
| Sonnet 29 - 'I think of thee!' Elizabeth Barrett Browning | "My thoughts do twine and bud" "Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see" "Yet, O my palm-tree" "Who art dearer, better!" "Set thy trunk all bare" "Burst, shattered, everywhere!" "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee" |
| Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy | "As though chidden of God" "And a few leaves lay on the starving sod" "Over tedious riddles of years ago" "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing/ Alive enough to have strength to die" "Like an ominous bird a-wing..." "Keen lessons that love deceives" "And a pond edged with greyish leaves" |
| The Farmer's Bride Charlotte Mew | "Three summers since I chose a maid" "We chased her, flying like a hare" "And turned the key upon her, fast" "'Not near, not near!' her eyes beseech" "Straight and slight as a young larch tree" "But what to me?" "The brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!" |
| Walking Away Cecil Day-Lewis | "With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free" "That hesitant figure, eddying away" "Nature's give-and-take" "Which fire one's irresolute clay" "What God alone could perfectly show" "How selfhood begins with a walking away,/ And love is proved in the letting go" |
| Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley | "It's not romance, simply how things are" "Me with my heartful of headlines" "Is your life more real because you dig and sow?" "Sends me word of that other world" "Pouring air and light into an envelope" "Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles" |
| Eden Rock Charles Causley | "In the same suit" "Still two years old" "The sky whitens as if lit by three suns" "Leisurely,/ They beckon to me from the other bank" "Crossing is not as hard as you might think" "I had not thought that it would be like this" |
| Follower Seamus Heaney | "His shoulders globed like a full sail strung" "An expert" "Sometimes he rode me on his back" "I wanted to grow up and plough" "I was a nuisance, tripping, falling" "But today/ It is my father who keeps stumbling/ Behind me, and will not go away" |
| Mother, any distance Simon Armitage | "Requires a second pair of hands" "Back to base" "Unreeling/ years between us" "Anchor. Kite." "I spacewalk through the empty bedrooms" "Your fingertips still pinch/ the last one-hundredth of an inch" "To fall or fly" |
| Before You Were Mine Carol Ann Duffy | "Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn." "The thought of me doesn't occur" "My loud, possessive yell" "Small bites on your neck, sweetheart?" "Cha cha cha!" "Where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine" |
| Winter Swans Owen Sheers | "Two days of rain and then a break" "The waterlogged earth" "As if rolling weights down their bodies" "They halved themselves" "Icebergs of white feather" "'They mate for life' you said" "Swum the distance between us" "Like a pair of wings settling after flight" |
| Singh Song! Daljit Nagra | "He vunt me not to hav a break" "I do di lock" "Like vee rowing through Putney" "On her Sikh lover site" "She effing at my mum" "She wear a Tartan sari" "Ven I return from di tickle ov my bride" "Is priceless baby" |
| Climbing My Grandfather Andrew Waterhouse | "Free, without a rope or net" "Trying to get a grip" "The skin of his fingers is warm and thick |
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