english lit

• Extract from the prelude


  "one summer evening (led by her)"
• Extract from the prelude 


  "when, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizons bound a huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head."
• Extract from the prelude


  "With trembling oars I turned and through the silent water stole my way back to the covert of the willow tree."
• Storm on the Island


  "nor are there trees which might prove company when it blows full Blast."
• Storm on the island

  "But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits the very window, spits like a tame cat Turned savage."
• Storm on the island


  "we just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly"
• Checking out me history

  "Dem tell me Dem tell me"
• Checking out me history


  "Bandage up me eye with me own history. Blind me to my own identity."
• Checking out me history

  "mountain dream fire woman struggle hopeful stream to freedom river."
• Kamikaze


  "Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water a samurai sword in the cock pit."
• Kamikaze


  "he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea."
• Kamikaze


  "and though he came back my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbours too, they treated him as though he no longer existed"
• War photographer


  "Spools of suffering Set out in ordered rows"
• War photographer


  "The only light is red and softly glows as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass."
• War photographer


  "Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Phen. All flesh is grass."
• The emigree


  "But my memory of it is sunlight clear for it seems I never saw it in that November which, I am told, comes to the mildest city."
• The emigree


  "There once was a country..."
• The emigree


  "It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but i am branded by an impression of sunlight."
• The emigree


  "They accuse me of absence, They circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city."
• Remains


  "On another occasion we got sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank."
• Remains


  "well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind, so all three of us open fire."
• Remains


  "His blood shadow stays on the street and out on patrol I walk right over it week after week"
• Poppies


  "Before you left, I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals spasams of paper red, disrupting blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer."
• Poppies


  "Sellotape bandages around my hand...smoothed down your shirts upturned colour...steeled the softening of my face."
• Poppies


  "I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front door, threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest."
• Poppies


  "Later a single dove flew from the pear tree, and this is where it has led me, skirting the church yard walls."
• London


  "near where the charted Thames does flow."
• London


  "and mark in every face I meet...marks of weakness, marks of woe."
• London


  "mind-forged manacles."
• Ozymandias


  "whose frown, and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command."
• Ozymandias


  "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"
• Ozymandias


  "Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away"