Poems

• When We Two Parted - Lord Byron


  -"In silence and tears"

  -"They name thee before me A knell to mine ear"

  -"In secret we met - In silence I grieve"
• Loves Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley


  -"Nothing in the world is single"

  -"And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea - "

  -"If thou not kiss me?"
• Porphyrias Lover - Robert Browning


  -"Three times her little throat around And strangled her"

  -"Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss"

  -"And yet God has not said a word!"
• Sonnet 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 


  -"my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines about a tree"

  -"Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare"

  -"I do not think of thee - I am too near thee"
• Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy


  -"the sun was white, as though chidden of God"

  -"They had fallen from an ash, and were grey."

  -"The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing"
• Letters from Yorkshire - Maura Dooley


  -"he saw the first lapwings return"

  -"his knuckles singing"

  -"You out there…seeing the seasons turning"

  -"Is your life more real…?"
• The Farmers Bride - Charlotte Mew


  -"Tis but a stair betwixt us."

  -"The brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!"
• Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis


  -"like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away"

  -"the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free"

  -"the scorching Ordeals which fire ones irresolute clay."
• Eden Rock - Charles Causley


  -"They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock"

  -"Over the drifted stream."
• Follower - Seamus Heaney


  -"His shoulders globed like a full sail strung"

  -"An expert."

  -"I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake"
• Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage


  -"You at the zero end…"

  -"I space walk through empty bedrooms"

  -"your fingertips still pinch the last one hundredth of an inch"

  -"an endless sky to fall or fly"
• Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy


  -"Marilyn."

  -"stamping stars from the wrong pavement."

  -"sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine."
• Winter Swans - Owen Sheers


  -"The clouds have given their all - two days of rain"

  -"’They mate for life’ you said as they left"

  -"like a pair of wings settling after flight."
• Singh Song - Daljit Nagra


  -"she effing at my mum… making fun at my daddy"

  -"from di stool each night I say, Is priceless baby - "
• Climbing My Grandfather - Andrew Waterhouse


  -"earth stained hand."

  -"like warm ice"