Power and conflict quotes

London quotes William Blake

"And the hapless soldier's sigh Runs in blood down palace walls"

"Blights with plagues the marriage hearse"

"The mind forged manacles I hear"

Extract from The Prelude quotes William Wordsworth

"It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"

"Glittering" and "sparkling" at the beginning of poem, contrasts with "dim" and "darkness" at end

"Silent water stole my way"

My Last Duchess quotes Robert Browning

"Will't please you sit and look at her"

"E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop"

"Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity"

Ozymandias quotes Percy Bysche Shelley

"Sneer of cold command"

"The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;"

"King of kings [...] look on my works, ye mighty and despair!/Nothing beside remains."

Charge of the Light Brigade quotes Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Theirs not to make reply,/Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die"

"Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell"

"Plunged in the battery smoke"

Exposure quotes Wilfred Owen

"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced winds that knive us..."

"Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"

"On us the doors are closed,- / We turn back to our dying"

Storm on the Island quotes Seamus Heaney

"We are prepared: we build our houses squat"

[the sea] "Exploding comfortably"

"Spits like a tame cat turned savage"

Bayonet Charge quotes Ted Hughes

"Raw / in raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy"

"In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations / was he the hand pointing that second?"

"King, honour, human dignity, etcetera"

Remains quotes Simon Armitage

"His blood shadow stays on the street"

"Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not. / Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds"

"His bloody life in my bloody hands"

Tissue quotes Imtiaz Dharker

"The sun shines through their borderlines"

"Living tissue [...] never meant to last"

"Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths"

Kamikaze quotes Beatrice Garland

"Shaven head full of powerful incantations"

"Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight, the dark shoals of fishes"

"He must have wondered which had been the better way to die"

Checking Out Me History quotes John Agard

"Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me"

"Nanny / see-far woman / of mountain dream / fire-woman struggle"

"Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo / but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu"

War Photographer quotes Carol Anne Duffy

"As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass"

"The blood stained into foreign dust"

"The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers"

The Emigrée quotes Carol Rumens

"There was once a country... I left it as a child"

"Time rolls its tanks"

"I comb it's hair and love its shining eyes"