Power and Conflict Poetry Quotes 2

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies"
"sneer of cold command"
"colossal wreck, boundless and bare"
"Nothing beside remains."
"Round the decay of that colossal wreck"
"The lone and level sands stretch far away"

London - William Blake

"Each chartered street"
"Chartered Thames"
"Mind-Forged Manacles"
"Curse blasts the new-born infants tear"
"Marriage Hearse"
"Every black'ning church"
"Runs in blood down palace walls"
"Mark in every face"

The Prelude - William Wordsworth

"One summer evening (led by her)"
"Straight I unloosed her chain"
"She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake"
"When, from behind that craggy steep... a huge peak, black and huge"
"...through the silent water stole my way back to the covert of the willow tree"

My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

"That's my last duchess"
"Looking as if she were alive"
"My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"
"I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together"
"Notice Neptune.../Taming a sea-horse"

Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

"Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths"
"Never meant to last"
"If buildings were paper ... see how easily they fall away on a sigh"
"The sun shines through their borderlines"
"Smoothed and stroked"

The Emigree - Carol Rumens

"The worst news I receive of it cannot break/my original view, the bright, filled paperweight"
"I am branded by an impression of sunlight"
"As time rolls it's tanks"
"Like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar."
"I can't get it off my tongue. It taste of sunlight"

Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

"this/was no longer the father we loved."
"Which had been the better way to die"
"Bringing their father's boat safe ... safe"
"My mother never spoke again in his presence"
"Remembered how he and his brothers" "loose silver of whitebait"

Checking out me history - John Agard

'Dem tell me/ Dem tell me/ Wha dem want to tell me'
'Bandage up me eye with my own history'
'A healing star'
'But now I checking out me own history I carving out me Identity'