Poetry

• "When we two parted

  In silence and tears,

  Half broken-hearted

  To sever for years"

  -When Two Parted, Lord Byron
• "Colder thy kiss" -When We Two Parted, Lord Byron
• "Thy vows are all broken,

  And light is thy fame;" -When We Two Parted, Lord Byron
• "A knell in mine ear" -When We Two Parted, Lord Byron
• "That thy heart could forget,

  Thy spirit deceive." -When We Two Parted, Lord Byron
• "The winds of heaven mix for ever

  With a sweet emotion" -Love's Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "Nothing in the world is single;

  All things by a law divine

  in one another's being mingle

  Why not I with thine?" -Love's Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "And the sunlight clasps the earth,

  And the moonbeams kiss the sea -

  what are all these kissings worth,

  If thou kiss not me?" -Love's Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "The sullen wind was soon awake" -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "She shut the cold out and the storm,

  And kneeled and made the cheerless grate

  Blaze up" -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "made her smooth white shoulder bare" -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour" -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "That moment she was mine, mine, fair,

  Perfectly pure and good" -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "No pain felt she;

  I am quite sure she felt no pain." -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "And all night long we have not stirred,

  And yet God has not said a word!" -Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning
• "my thoughts do twine and bud" -Sonnet 29, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "the straggling green which hides the wood" -Sonnet 29, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare" -Sonnet 29, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee." -Sonnet 29, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "And the sun was white as though chidden of God" -Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy
• "a few leaves lay on the starving sod" -Neutral Tones, Thomas Hardy
• "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing" -Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy
• "Alive enough to have strength to die" -Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy
• "Your eyes on me were eyes that rove" -Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy
• "God-curst sun" -Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy
• "came indoors to write to me, his knuckles singing" -Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley
• "It's not romance, simply how things are" -Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley
• "Is your life more real because you dig and sow?" -Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley
• "pouring air and light into an envelope." -Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley
• "our souls tap out messages across the icy miles" -Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley
• "I chose a maid,

  Too young maybe" -The Farmer's Bride, Charlotte Mew
• "Her smile went out, and 'twasn't a woman-

  More like a little frightened fay." -The Farmer's Bride, Charlotte Mew
• "We chased her, flying like a hare" -The Farmer's Bride, Charlotte Mew
• " 'Not near, not near!' her eyes beseech

  When one of us comes within reach" -The Farmer's Bride Charlotte Mew
• " 'Tis but a stair

  Betwixt us. Oh! my God! the down,

  The soft young down of her"
• "I watched you play

  your first game of football, then, like a satellite

  Wrenched from it's orbit, go drifting away" -Walking Away, Cecil Day-Lewis
• "The pathos of a half-fledged thing set free" -Walking Away Cecil Day-Lewis
• "That hesitant figure, eddying away" -Walking Away Cecil Day-Lewis
• "Winged seed loosened from it's parent stem" -Walking Away, Cecil Day-Lewis
• "Selfhood begins with a walking away,

  And love is proved in the letting go." -Walking Away, Cecil Day-Lewis