When We two parted, in silence and in tears / They name thee before me, a knell to mine ears / How should I greet thee? In silence and tears
1 of 15
Love's Philosophy -
The Fountains mingle with the river / Nothing in this world is single, All things by law divine / Clasps Kisses / What is all this sweet work worth, if thou kiss not me?
2 of 15
Porphyria's Lover -
I listened with a heart fit to Break / Porphyria worshipped me / Mine,mine,fair / And yet God has not said a word
3 of 15
Sonnet 29 -
I think of thee / My thoughts do twine and bud like wild vines about a tree / Renew thy presence / I do not think of thee - I am too near thee
4 of 15
Neutral Tones -
Winter Day / Few leaves lay on the starving Sod / The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / Keen lessons that love deceives / Your face and the God-curst sun
5 of 15
The Farmer's Bride -
Three Summers since I chose a maid / We chased her, flying like a hare / What's Christmas time without there be, some other in the house than we / Her Eyes, Her hair, Her Hair!
6 of 15
Walking Away -
18 years ago , Almost to the day / Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit go drifting away / Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem / Gnaws at my mind still
7 of 15
Letters From Yorkshire -
Knuckles singing / Is your life more real because you dig and sow? / It's you who sends me word of that other world / Our souls tap out messages across icy miles
8 of 15
Eden Rock -
They are waiting for me, Somewhere beyond Eden Rock / Sky whitens as if lit by 3 suns / I had not thought it would be like this
9 of 15
Follower -
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung / An Expert / I wanted to Grow up and Plough / But today, it is my father who stumbles behind me
10 of 15
Mother Any Distance -
Requires a second pair of hands / Reporting metres , centimetres back to base / Anchor kite / Breaking point where something has to give / To fall or to fly
11 of 15
Before You Were Mine -
Your polka dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn / Ballroom with the thousand eyes / Stamping Stars on the wrong pavement / Before you were mine
12 of 15
Winter Swans -
Waterlogged Earth, gulping for breath / Like Boats righting in rough weather / They mate for life / Like a pair of wings settling after flight (Holding hands)
13 of 15
Singh Song -
Up di stairs is my newly bride / She effing at my mum in all di colours of Punjabi / Is priceless, baby
14 of 15
Climbing My Grandfather -
I decide to do it free, without rope or net / Smooth and thick like warm ice / Watch a pupil slowly open and close / Slow pulse of his good heart
15 of 15
Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
The Fountains mingle with the river / Nothing in this world is single, All things by law divine / Clasps Kisses / What is all this sweet work worth, if thou kiss not me?
Back
Love's Philosophy -
Card 3
Front
I listened with a heart fit to Break / Porphyria worshipped me / Mine,mine,fair / And yet God has not said a word
Back
Card 4
Front
I think of thee / My thoughts do twine and bud like wild vines about a tree / Renew thy presence / I do not think of thee - I am too near thee
Back
Card 5
Front
Winter Day / Few leaves lay on the starving Sod / The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / Keen lessons that love deceives / Your face and the God-curst sun
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