Belonging Poetry Quotes

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adi r

Cards (33)

'And bring no book:for this one day / We'll give to idleness'
'Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season'
'from earth to man, from man to earth'
2. 'they run to seek the shallow pit, wand wade / And dance about the water'
2. 'And laugh to hear the thunder in their ears'
2. 'Beneath the willow trees they ride and stoop'
3. 'the day has wept its fill, / Spent its store of silent sorrow.'
3. 'Blue mists, sweet mists of summer pall / The horizons mountain chain'
3. 'dreamy scents of fragrance pass / That dream of other years.'
4. 'The water-lilies growing beneath the morning smile,'
4. 'We leave in leaving childhood, life's fair land behind'
4. 'plough'd its long green grasses and cut down the lime-tree bower'
5. 'Where back eddies play/ Shipwreck with the leaves'
5. ' proud swans stray, / Sailing one by one'
5.'With her lengthening shade,/And the tardy boon, / of her brightening moon'
6. 'I remember, I remember'
6. 'The little window where the sun/Came peeing in at morn'
6. 'My spirit flew in feathers then,/That is so heavy now'
7. 'the steady breaking and wombing'
7. 'sun surfacing defiantly/ from the east / of his small emerald island'
7. 'Comes back to the sands / Of a grey metallic soar / to surge of wheels'
8. 'I come from a musical place / Where they shoot me for my song'
8. 'We can all be refugees'
8. 'And why should we live in fear / Of the weather or the troubles?'
9. 'it leaks desperation / Gunmetal droplets of perspiration / gather.'
9. 'tight / as damp and crammed as a coconut shell'
9. 'the pavement is a gruesome meat / each person is a sturdy hairbrush bristle / on its surface'
10. 'If you ask me, us takes in undulations'
10. 'from one coast, you could reach out / to the next;'
10. 'my heat's sunk at separations of us'
11. 'What is it called? Being sixteen / in Wales, longing to be Italian'
11. 'dying to be French, dying to shrug and pout'
11. 'Is there a name for that thing / you do when you are young?'