OCR English Literature Poetry Quotes (L5)

Flag 1

What's that fluttering in a breeze?

Flag 2

It's just a piece of cloth

Flag 3

that brings a nation to its knees

Flag 4

that dares the coward to relent

Flag 5

What's that flying across a field

Flag 6

How can I possess such a cloth?

Flag 7

Just ask for a flag, my friend

Flag 8

Then blind your conscience to the end

Vergissmeinnicht 1

returning over the nightmare ground

Vergissmeinnicht 2

the soldier sprawling in the sun

Vergissmeinnicht 3

The frowning barrel of his gun

Vergissmeinnicht 4

Look. Here in the gunpit spoil

Vergissmeinnicht 5

Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht

Vergissmeinnicht 6

mocked at by his own equipment

Vergissmeinnicht 7

how on his skin the swart flies move

Vergissmeinnicht 8

the burst stomach like a cave

Vergissmeinnicht 9

death who had the soldier singled

Envy 1

This rose-tree is not made to bear

Envy 2

Nor the sweet mignionet:

Envy 3

It all in vain would fret.

Envy 4

And should it fret, you would suppose

Envy 5

Or it could ne'er be discontent

Envy 6

With its own pretty flower

Envy 7

Like such a blind and senseless tree

Envy 8

With care and culture all may find

Envy 9

Some pretty flower in their own mind,/Some talent that is rare

There's a certain slant of light 1

There's a certain slant of light

There's a certain slant of light 2

That oppresses, like the Heft/Of Cathedral Tunes

There's a certain slant of light 3

Heavenly Hurt

There's a certain slant of light 4

But internal difference

There's a certain slant of light 5

None may teach it -Any

There's a certain slant of light 6

An imperial affliction

There's a certain slant of light 7

When it comes, the Landscape listens -

There's a certain slant of light 8

Shadows - hold their breath -

There's a certain slant of light 9

On the look of Death -

Lament 1

For her eggs laid in their nest of sickness.

Lament 2

For the cormorant in his funeral silk,

Lament 3

the shadow on the sea.

Lament 4

For the ocean’s lap with its mortal stain

Lament 5

For the soldier with his uniform of fire.

Lament 6

the boy fusilier who joined for the company

Lament 7

the whale struck dumb by the missile’s thunder

Lament 8

the veiled sun and the stink of anger.

Lament 9

For the burnt earth and the sun put out

Lament 10

For vengeance, and the ashes of language

Thirteen 1

You will be four minutes from home

Thirteen 2

when you are cornered by an officer

Thirteen 3

-You'll laugh

Thirteen 4

Thriteen, you'll tell him: you're thirteen.

Thirteen 5

by another fed

Thirteen 6

being little stars.

Thirteen 7

You will show the warmth of your teeth

Thirteen 8

he will see you powerless - plump.

Thirteen 9

Don't you remember me?

Thirteen 10

While fear condenses on your lips

Honour Killing 1

At last I'm taking off this coat,

Honour Killing 2

that I wore more out of habit/than design.

Honour Killing 3

I'm taking off this veil

Honour Killing 4

that made me faithless/to myself.

Honour Killing 5

rattling in a tin cup of needs

Honour Killing 6

I'm taking off this skin

Honour Killing 7

Let's see/what I am in here

Honour Killing 8

making, crafting, plotting