Poetry Quotes

Cards (45)

  • Quote from Ozymandias
    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings"
  • Quote from Ozymandias
    "Two vast trunkless legs of stone sand in the desert"
  • Quote from Ozymandias
    "Look on my works ye mighty and despair"
  • Quote from London
    "Marks of weakness, marks of woe"
  • Quote from London
    "Mind forged manacles
  • Quote from London
    "Chartered street... Chartered Thames"
  • Quote from The prelude
    "Like a living thing strode after me, with trembling oars I turned"
  • Quote from The prelude
    "I struck and struck again"
  • Quote from The prelude

    "The horizon's bound, a huge peak black and huge"
  • Quote from My last duchess
    "I gave commands then all smiles stopped together"
  • Quote from My last duchess
    "That's my last duchess painted up on the wall looking as though she were alive"
  • Quote from My last duchess
    "Too soon made glad, too easily impressed"
  • Quote from The charge of the light brigade
    "Rode the 600... Noble 600"
  • Quote from The charge of the light brigade

    "When can their glory fade?"
  • Quote from The charge of the light brigade
    "Valley of death... Jaws of hell... Mouth of hell"
  • Quote from Exposure
    "Merciless east iced winds that knifed us"
  • Quote from Exposure
    "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"
  • Quote from Exposure
    "Slowly our ghosts drag home"
  • Quote from storm on the island
    "Spits like a tamed cat turned savage"
  • Quote from storm on the island
    "Bombarded by the empty air"
  • Quote from storm on the island
    "strange its a huge nothing that we fear"
  • Quote from bayonet charge
    "suddenly he was awoke and was running raw"
  • Quote from bayonet charge
    "his terrors touchy dynamite"
  • Quote from bayonet charge
    "yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle."
  • Quote from remains
    "probably armed, possibly not"
  • Quote from remains
    "His bloody life in my bloody hands"
  • Quote from remains
    "I saw every round as it ripped through his life"
  • Quote from poppies
    "I listened hoping to hear your playground voice"
  • Quote from poppies
    "The world overflowing like a treasure chest"
  • Quote from poppies
    "I was brave as I walked with you to the front door"
  • Quote from war photographer
    "Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows."
  • Quote from war photographer
    "A hundred agonies in black and white"
  • Quote from war photographer
    "He has a job to do"
  • Quote from tissue
    "fine slips... Luminous scripts"
  • Quote from tissue
    "might fly our lives like paper kites"
  • Quote from tissue

    "see how easily / they fall away on a sigh"
  • Quote from the emigree

    There once was a country"
  • Quote from the emigree
    "branded by an impression of sunlight"
  • Quote from the emigree
    "Bright, filled, paperwork"
  • Quote from Kamikaze
    "Green blue translucent... Pearl grey"