AQA Anthology Love and Relationships Quotes

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When we two parted

'In silence and tears'

'Half-broken hearted'

'Cold, Colder thy kiss'

'I hear thy name spoken, and share in its shame'

'A knell in mine ear'

'Why wert thou so dear?'

'Long, long shall I rue thee'

'How should I greet thee? With silence and tears

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Love's philosophy

'The winds of Heaven mix for ever'

'Nothing in the world is single'

'Why not I with thine?'

'See the mountains kiss high Heaven, and the waves clasp one another'

'What are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?'

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Porphyria's lover #1

'When glided in Porphyria, straight'

'Untied, Her hat and let the damp hair fall'

'She put my arm about her waist, and made her smooth white shoulder bare'

'And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair'

'Too weak for all her heart's endeavour, to set its struggling passion free'

'From pride, and vainer ties dissever, and give herself to me forever'

'Porphyria worshipped me: surprise'

'While I debated what to do'

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Porphyria's lover #2

'That moment she was mine, mine, fair'

'In one long yellow string I wound, three times her little throat around, and strangled her. No pain felt she'

'As a shut bud that hold a bee'

'Her head, that droops upon it still'

'So glad it has its utmost will'

'Her darling one wish would be heard'

'And yet God has not said a word!'

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Sonnet 29 - 'I think of thee!'

'I think of thee! - my thoughts do twine and bud'

'About thee, as wild vines, about a tree'

'I will not have my thoughts instead of thee, who art dearer, better!'

'Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare'

'I do not think of thee - I am too near thee'

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Neutral tones

'And the sun was white, as though chidden of God'

'A few leaves ... had fallen from an ash, and were grey'

'Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove, over tedious riddles of years ago'

'The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing'

'Like an ominous bird a-wing...'

'And a pond edged with greyish leaves'

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Letters from Yorkshire

'And came, indoors to write to me'

'It's not romance, simply how things are'

'Is your life more real because you dig and sow?'

'Still, its you, who sends me word of that other world'

'Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles'

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The farmer's bride #1

'When us was wed she turned afraid, of love and me and all things human'

'Her smile went out, and 'twasn't a woman - more like a little frightened fay'

'We chased her, flying like a hare'

'And turned the key upon her, fast'

'Happy enough ... so long as men-folk keep away'

'"Not near, not near!" her eyes beseech'

'I've hardly heard her speak at all'

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The farmer's bride #2

'Sweet as the first wild violets'

'But what to me?'

'A magpie's spotted feathers lie'

'What's Christmas-time withouth there be, some other in the house than we!'

' 'Tis but a stair, betwixt us'

'The brown, the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!'

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Walking away

'I watched you play, your first game of football'

'Then, like a satellite, wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away'

'With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free'

'Who finds no path where the path should be'

'Something I never quite grasp to convey, about nature's give-and-take'

'I have had worse partings, but none that so, gnaws at my mind still'

'How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go'

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Eden rock

'They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock'

'The sky whitens as if lit by three sons'

'They beckon to me from the other bank'

'"Crossing is not as hard as you might think"'

'I had not thought that it would be like this'

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Follower

'I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake'

'I wanted to grow up and plough'

'All I ever did was follow, in his broad shadow round the farm'

'I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always'

'But today, it is my father who keeps stumbling, behind me, and will not go away'

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Mother, any distance

'You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape'

'Unreeling, years between us. Anchor. Kite'

'Your fingers still pinch, the last one-hundredth of an inch...'

'A hatch that opens on an endless sky, to fall or fly'

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Before you were mine

'Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marylin'

'The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?'

'And now your ghost clatters towards me'

'Even then, I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello'

'That glamorous love lasts, where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine'

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Winter swans

'We skirted the lake, silent and apart'

'As if rolling weights down their bodies to their heads'

'"They mate for life" you said'

'I noticed our hands, that had, somehow, swum the distance between us'

'Like a pair of wings settling after flight' 

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Singh song!

'Hey Singh, ver yoo bin?'

'Above my head high heel tap di ground'

'Tiny eyes ov a gun, and di tummy ov a teddy'

'Ven I return from di tickle ov my bride'

'How much do yoo charge for dat moon baby? ... Is half di cost of yoo baby ... How much does dat come to baby? ... Is priceless baby -'

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Climbing my grandfather

'I decided to do it free, without a rope or net'

'On his arm I discover, the glassy ridge of a scar, place my feet gently'

'Not looking down, for climbing has its dangers'

'Reaching for the summit'

'Feeling his heart, knowing, the slow pulse of his good heart'

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