15 quotes with full 6-part analysis
“A knell to mine ear; / Thy very name struck my heart”
Lord Byron · When We Two Parted
“And the sunlight clasps the earth / And the moonbeams kiss the sea: / What is al…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley · Love's Philosophy
“I found / A thing to do, and all her hair / In one long yellow string I wound / …”
Robert Browning · Porphyria's Lover
“I do not think of thee — I am too near thee.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!'
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / Alive enough to have strength to…”
Thomas Hardy · Neutral Tones
“Oh! my God! the down, / The soft young down of her”
Charlotte Mew · The Farmer's Bride
“love is proved in the letting go.”
Cecil Day-Lewis · Walking Away
“Is his life more real because he digs his garden?”
Maura Dooley · Letters from Yorkshire
“I had not thought that it would be like this.”
Charles Causley · Eden Rock
“But today / It is my father who keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go awa…”
Seamus Heaney · Follower
“Anchor. Kite.”
Simon Armitage · Mother, any distance
“I'm not here yet. The thought of me doesn't occur / in the ballroom”
Carol Ann Duffy · Before You Were Mine
“they halved themselves in the water, / icebergs of white feather”
Owen Sheers · Winter Swans
“my bride / she effing at my mum / in all di colours of Punjabi”
Daljit Nagra · Singh Song!
“I discover / the point of his knee, dusty and cracked / as a dropped biscuit”
Andrew Waterhouse · Climbing My Grandfather