Poetry quotes

• 5 Key Quotes per poem

  • Ozymandias
  • London
  • The Prelude
  • My Last Duchess
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Exposure
  • Storm on the Island
  • Bayonet Charge
  • Remains
  • Poppies
  • War Photographer
  • Tissue
  • The Emigree
  • Checking Out Me History
  • Kamikaze
• Themes


  • Power of nature
  • Power of humans
  • Emotions (Pride, Anger, Fear)
  • Loss and Absence
  • Memory
  • Conflict
  • Identity
  • Individual Experiences
• Ozymandias: ''I met a traveller from an antique land''
• Ozymandias: ''The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed''
• Ozymandias: ''sneer of cold command''
• Ozymandias: ''Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!''
• Ozymandias: ''Nothing beside remains.''
• London: ''chartered streets… where the chartered Thames does flow''
• London: ''mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.''
• London: ''mind forged manacles''
• London: ''Every black'ning church appals''
• London: ''blights with plagues the marriage hearse.''
• The Prelude: ''Straight I unloosened her chain… it was an act of stealth''
• The Prelude: ''proud of his skill''
• The Prelude: ''grim shape towered up between me and the stars''
• The Prelude: ''huge and mighty forms… were a trouble to my dreams.''
• The Prelude: ''my boat went heaving through the water like a swan''
• My Last Duchess: ''since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I''
• My Last Duchess: ''She had a heart - …to soon made glad''
• My Last Duchess: ''She liked whate'er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere''
• My Last Duchess: ''as if she ranked/My gift of a nine-hundred years-old name/With anybody's gift''
• My Last Duchess: ''I gave commands;/then all smiles stopped altogether.''
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: ''Some one had blundered''
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: ''Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die''
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: ''Into the jaws of death rode the 500' / 'Into the mouth of hell rode the 500''
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: ''Cannon to the right of them / Cannon to the left of them / Cannon behind them''
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: ''Honour the Light Brigade! / Honour the charge they made! / Noble six hundred!''
• Exposure: ''Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us…''
• Exposure: ''Dawn masking … her melancholy army''
• Exposure: ''Pale Flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces –''
• Exposure: ''Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed''
• Exposure: ''All their eyes are ice / but nothing happens''
• Storm on the Island: ''We are prepared: we build our houses squat / Sink walls in a rock / roof with good slate''
• Storm on the Island: ''It pummels your house too''
• Storm on the Island: ''Exploding comfortably''
• Storm on the Island: ''We just sit tight while wind dives / and strafes invisibly … space is a salvo''
• Storm on the Island: ''Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear''
• Bayonet Charge: ''Suddenly he awoke and was running''
• Bayonet Charge: ''He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm''
• Bayonet Charge: ''In bewilderment … almost stopped-''