topic key poems

• "suddenly he awoke and was running"
• "bullets smacking the belly out of the air!
• "in what cold clockwork of the stars and nations"
• "then the slot slashed furrows"
• "its mouth wide open silent, its eyes standing out"
• "king, honour, human dignity, etcetera, dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm"
• "I met a traveller from an antique land"
• "shattered visage lies"
• "a wrinkled lip and a sneer of cold command"
• "the hand that mockd them"
• "king of kings"
• "the lone and level sands stretch far away"
• "in his darkroom he is finally alone, with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
• "as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass"
• "running children in a nightmare heat"
• "his hands, which did not tremble though seem to now"
• "baths and pre lunch beers"
• "a strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost"
• "one summer evening (led by her)"
• "probably armed, possibly not"
• "I see every round as it rips through his life"
• "tosses his guts back into his body"
• "his blood shadow stays on the street"
• "the drinks and drugs wont flush him out"
• "on another occasion, we get sent out"
• "it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"
• "she was an elfin pinnace, lustily i dipped my oars into the silent lake"
• "went heaving through the water like a swan"
• "with trembling oars i turned, and through the silent water stole my way"
• "huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men... were a trouble to my dreams"
• "I wander through each chartered street"
• "marks of weakness, marks of woe"
• "in every infant's cry of fear"
• "the mind forged manacles i hear"
• "the hapless soliders sigh runs in blood down palace walls"
• "blights with plague the marriage hearse"
• "our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us"
• "worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous"
• "slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires"
• "we only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy"