power + conflict poems

• ozymandias 


  "two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
• ozymandias 


  "half sunk, a shattered visage lies"
• ozymandias 


  "sneer of cold command"
• ozymandias 


  "king of kings"
• ozymandias

  "colossal wreck, boundless and bare"
• London


  "I wander through each chartered street"
• London


  "marks of weakness, marks of woe"
• London


  "the mind-forged manacles I hear"
• London


  "chimney sweepers' cry ... hapless soliders sigh"
• London

  "plagues the marriage hearse"
• extract from the prelude 


  "one summer evening (led by her)"
• extract from the prelude 


  "troubled pleasure"
• extract from the prelude 


  "a huge peak, black and huge"
• extract from the prelude 


  "lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake"
• extract from the prelude 


  "there hung a darkness, call it solitude/or blank desertion"
• my last duchess 


  "my last duchess"
• my last duchess 


  "half-flush that dies along her throat"
• my last duchess 


  "my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"
• my last duchess 


  "I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together"
• my last duchess 


  "notice Neptune.../ Taming a sea-horse"
• the charge of the light brigade 


  "valley of death"
• the charge of the light brigade 


  "theirs not to make reply / theirs not to reason why / theirs to do and die"
• the charge of the light brigade 


  "jaws of death /...mouth of hell"
• the charge of the light brigade 


  "someone had blunder'd"
• the charge of the light brigade 


  "noble six hundred"
• exposure 


  "our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
• exposure


  "but nothing happens"
• exposure


  "forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed"
• exposure


  "we turn back to our dying"
• exposure


  "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"
• storm on the island 


  "we are prepared: we build out houses squat"
• storm on the island 


  "spits like a tame cat / turned savage"
• storm on the island 


  "exploding comfortably"
• storm on the island 


  "but there are no trees, no natural shelter"
• storm on the island 


  "we are bombarded by the empty air"
• bayonet charge 


  "bullets smacking the belly out of the air-"
• bayonet charge 


  "he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm"
• bayonet charge 


  "patriotic tear"
• bayonet charge 


  "a yellow hare that rolled like a flame / And crawled in threshing circle"
• bayonet charge 


  "king, honour, human dignity, etcetera"