English Literature: Poetry - Love & Relationships Not all of the poems but some good ones for comparisons 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureAQA AnthologyGCSEAQA Created by: Soph_Star14Created on: 24-05-17 12:47 When We Two Parted 'Thy vows are all broken' 1 of 32 When We Two Parted 'A knell in mine ear' 2 of 32 When We Two Parted 'In secret we met - / In silence I grieve' 3 of 32 When We Two Parted 'With silence and tears.' 4 of 32 Porphyria's Lover 'She put my arm about her waist...yellow hair displaced' 5 of 32 Porphyria's Lover 'all her heart's endeavour, / To set its struggling passion free' 6 of 32 Porphyria's Lover 'Three times her little throat round' 7 of 32 Porphyria's Lover 'And thus we sit together now / ... / And yet God has not said a word' 8 of 32 The Farmer's Bride 'Too young maybe - but more's to do / ... / little frightened fay.' 9 of 32 The Farmer's Bride 'We chased her, flying like a hare / ... / We caught her' 10 of 32 The Farmer's Bride 'Shy...swift / Straight...slight / Sweet / But what to me?' 11 of 32 The Farmer's Bride 'She sleeps up in the attic there / Alone, poor maid.' 12 of 32 Walking Away 'It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day' 13 of 32 Walking Away 'Who finds no path where the path should be.' 14 of 32 Walking Away 'That hesitant figure, eddying away' 15 of 32 Walking Away 'I have had worse partings / ... / And love is proved in the letting go.' 16 of 32 Eden Rock 'They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock' 17 of 32 Eden Rock 'The sky whitens as if lit by three suns.' 18 of 32 Eden Rock 'They beckon to me from the other bank. / ... / Crossing is not as hard as you might think.' 19 of 32 Eden Rock 'I had not thought that it would be like this.' 20 of 32 Mother, any distance 'Mother, any distance greater than a single span' 21 of 32 Mother, any distance 'then leaving / up the stairs...unreeling / years between us. Anchor. Kite.' 22 of 32 Mother, any distance 'to breaking point, where something / has to give / your fingertips still pinch' 23 of 32 Mother, any distance 'a hatch that opens on an endless sky / to fall or fly' 24 of 32 Winter Swans 'The clouds had given their all' 25 of 32 Winter Swans 'we skirted the lake, silent and apart' 26 of 32 Winter Swans 'a show of tipping in unison. / ... / "They mate for life" you said' 27 of 32 Winter Swans 'folded, one over the other, / like a pair of wings settling after flight.' 28 of 32 Climbing My Grandfather 'I decide to do it free / ... / overhanging shirt I change' 29 of 32 Climbing My Grandfather 'like warm ice. / ... / gently in the old stiches' 30 of 32 Climbing My Grandfather 'thick hair (soft and white / at the altitude), reaching for the summit' 31 of 32 Climbing My Grandfather 'knowing / the slow pulse of his good heart' 32 of 32
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