Anthology quotations - love and relationships

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'pond,winter and white sun' 'starving sod' 'tedious riddles of years ago'
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Love's Philosophy
'mingle' and 'mix' 'mountains kiss high heavens' 'what is this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?'
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Winter swan
'gulping for breath' 'iceberg of white feathers' 'wings settling after flight'
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When we two parted
'sever' 'dew of the morning' 'long shall I rue thee'
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The farmer's Bride
'too young' 'like a hare' 'frightened fay'
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Porphyria's Lover
shuts out 'cold' and the 'storm' 'mine,mine' 'three times her little throat' 'laughing blue eyes'
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Sonnet 29 'I think of thee'
'Tree' and shes the 'vines' 'put(s) out broad leaves and soon there's nought to see' 'instantly renew thy presense'
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Walking away
'leaves just turning' 'wrenched from orbit' Simile- 'winged seed' Pieced together ‘fire one’s irresolute clay’
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Follower
His eye narrow and angled at the ground, mapping the furrow exactly’ passive verb form ‘He rode me on his back’ Now the father ‘who keeps stumbling’
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Mother any distance
He still needs her ‘second pair of hands’ ‘unreeling years between us’ ‘endless sky’
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Climbing my grandfather
‘decides to do it free, without a rope or net’ ‘watch a pupil slowly open and close’ – the inactivity of the grandfather shows immense patience and affection for his grandson. ‘the slow pulse’ of his ‘good heart’
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Eden rock
‘Genuine Irish Tweed.’ white, light, wheat symbolise a peaceful, positive, natural scene. euphemistic ‘crossing’ which is ‘not as hard as’ he ‘might think’
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Before you where mine
‘I knew you would dance like that’ ‘Even then I wanted the bold girl winking’.
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Letters from Yorkshire
’his knuckles singing’ communicates the joy he feels in sharing the return of the ‘lapwings’ with his friend. ‘It’s not romance, simply how things are’
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'mingle' and 'mix' 'mountains kiss high heavens' 'what is this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?'

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Love's Philosophy

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'gulping for breath' 'iceberg of white feathers' 'wings settling after flight'

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'sever' 'dew of the morning' 'long shall I rue thee'

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'too young' 'like a hare' 'frightened fay'

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