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When we two parted - Lord Byron

“The dew of the morning sunk chill on my brow”

“A knell in my ear”

“In secret we met — in silence I grieve'“

[start] “In silence and tears”

[end] “With silence and tears”

“Why wert thou so dear?”

Love’s Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The fountains mingle with the river /and the rivers with the Ocean”

“All things by a law divine”

“Why not I with thine?”

“the sunlight clasp the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea - what are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?”

Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning

“let the damp hair fall”

“She put my arm about her waist and made her smooth shoulder bare”

“Nor could tonight’s gay feast restrain”

“that moment”

“she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good”

“In one long yellow string I wound three times around her little throat around, and strangled her”

“I am quite sure she felt no pain”

“Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss”

“Ad yet God has not said a word”

Sonnet 29 — ‘I think of thee!”

“my thoughts do twine and bud about thee, as wild vines, about a tree”

“Rustle thy boughs and set thy teunk all bare”

“Drop heavily down, - burst, shattered, everywhere”

“I do not think of thee - I am too near thee”

Neutral tones -- Thomas Hardy

“We stood by a pond that winter day”

“chidden of God”

“A few leaves lay on the starving sod”

“fallen from an ash, and were grey”

“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have the strength to die”

“keen lessons that love deceives”

“God-curst sun”

“a pond edged with greyish leaves”

Letters from Yorkshire - Maura Dooley

“came indoors to write to me”

“It’s not romance”

“You out there… me”

“seeing the seasons turning”, “heartful headlines”

“pouring air and light into an envelope”

“our souls tap out icy messages across the icy miles”

The Farmer’s Bride -- Charlotte Mew

“I chose a maid, too young maybe”

“like a little frightened fay”

“flying like a hare”

“caught” “fetched”

“I’ve hardly heard her speak at all”

“shy as a leveret”

“Alone, poor maid”

“Tis but a stair/ betwixt us”

“the down, the soft young down of her”

Walking away - Cecil Day-Lewis

“It is eighteen years ago”

“like a satellite wrenched its orbit”

“a half-fledged thing”

“the gait of one who finds no path where the path should be”

“like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”

“the scorching ordeals which fires one’s irresolute clay”

“How selfhood begins with walking away, and love is proved in the letting go”

Eden Rock - Charles Causley

“Eden Rock”

“my father, twenty-five, in the same suit of Genuine Irish Tweed”

“terrier Jack… trembling at his feet”

“My mother, twenty-three, in a sprigged dress”

“the same three plates”

“three suns”

“My father spins a stone along the water”

“They beckon to me from the other bank”

“I had not thought that it would be like this”

Follower - Seamus Heaney

“His shoulders globed like a full sail strung”

“I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake”

“All I ever did was follow in his broad shadow round the farm”

“I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always.”

“it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me”

“and will not go away”

Mother, any distance - Simon Armitage

“the acres of walls, the prairies of the floors”

“You at the zero-end, me”

“the line still feeding out, unreeling years between us”

“Anchor, Kite.”

“Your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch”

“I reach towards the hatch that opens to an endless sky to fall or fly”

Before You were mine - Carol Ann Duffy

“holding each other… shriek at the pavement”

“Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn”

“I knew you would dance like that”

“You reckon it’s worth it”

“I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics”

“You’d teach me the steps on the way home from mass”

“stamping stars from the wrong pavement”

“the bold girl winking in Portobello”

“That glamorous love lasts where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine”

Winter swans -- Owen Sheers

“the clouds had given their all”

“the waterlogged earth…, silent and apart,”

“until… a show of tipping in unison”

“they halved themselves in the dark water”

“icebergs”

“‘they mate for life’”

“porcelain”

“stilling water”

“earth” “skirted” —> “sand” “hands”

“settling after flight.”

Singh Song - Daljit Nagra

“I run just one ov my daddy’s shops”

“ven nobofy in, I do di lock — cos up di strairs is my newly bride”

“Yor lemons are limes/ yor bananas are plantain”

“on her Sikh lover site”

“my bride” x3

“she effing at my mum”

“silver stool” “chocolate bars”

“How much do yoo charge for dat moon baby?”

“Is priceless baby”

Climbing my grandfather - Andrew Waterhouse

“trying to get a grip”
“I change direction”

“the nails are splintered and give good purchase”

“like warm ice”

“at his still firm shoulder, I rest for a while”

“not looking down, for climbing has its own dangers”

“feeling the heat, knowing the slow pulse of his good heart”