Poetry quotes

Cards (54)

  • Ozymandias: "Two vast trunkless legs of stone"
  • ozymandias: "Nothing but remains"
  • ozymandias: "half sunk, a shattered visage of lies"
  • ozymandias: "sheer of cold command"
  • ozymandias: "my name is ozymandias, king of kings. Look at my works, ye mighty and despair"
  • london: "charter'd streets... Near where the charter'd Thames does flow"
  • london: "mind-forged manacles"
  • london: "blast the new-born infants tear, And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
  • london: "runs in blood down palace walls"
  • london: "in every cry... in every infants... in every voice"
  • prelude: "it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"
  • prelude: "the grim shape towered up between me and the stars"
  • prelude: "there hung a darkness"
  • prelude: "and through the meadows homeward went, in grave and serious mood"
  • my last duchess: "thats my duchess painted on the wall"
  • my last duchess: "as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred year old name with anybodies gift"
  • my last duchess: "since none puts by the curtain i have drawn for you but i"
  • my last duchess: "this grew; i gave commands then all smiles stopped together"
  • my last duchess: "will't please you sit and look at her"
  • COTLB: "cannon to the right of them; cannon to the left of them"
  • COTLB: "there not to make reply"
  • COTLB: "valley of death"
  • COTLB: "honour the charge they made! honour the Light Brigade"
  • COTLB: "volley'd and thunder'd; storm'd at with shot and shell"
  • exposure: "our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knives us"
  • exposure: "But nothing happens"
  • exposure: "Less deadly than the air that shuddered black with snow"
  • exposure: "all their eyes are ice"
  • SOTI: "strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear"
  • SOTI: "the very window spits like a tame cat gone savage"
  • SOTI: "we are prepared: we build our houses squat"
  • SOTI: "you can listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too"
  • bayonet charge: "suddenly he awoke and was running"
  • bayonet charge: "king, honour, human dignity, etcetera"
  • bayonet charge: "threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threatening circle"
  • bayonet charge: "cold clockwork of the stars... was he the hand pointing that second"
  • Remains: "tosses his guts back into his body... carted off in the back of a lorry"
  • Remains: "his bloody life, in my bloody hands"
  • Remains: "sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony"
  • Remains: "but i blink and he bursts again through the doors of the bank"