"Bullets smacking the belly out of the air"
"The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye / Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"
"King, honour, human dignity, etcetera / Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm"
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Boldly they rode and well, / Into the jaws of Death"
"Storm'd at with shot and shell, / While horse and hero fell"
"When can their glory fade? (...) Honour the Light Brigade, / Noble six hundred!"
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Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"on the sand, / Half-sunk, a shattered visage lies"
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
"Round the decay of that colossal wreck"
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Storm on the Island
by Seamus Heaney
"We are prepared: we build our houses squat, / Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate."
"You might think that the sea is company, / Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"
"We are bombarded by the empty air. / Strange, it is a huge nothing tha
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Extract from, The Prelude
by William Wordsworth
"...a huge peak, black and huge, /
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Front
The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Back
"Boldly they rode and well, / Into the jaws of Death"
"Storm'd at with shot and shell, / While horse and hero fell"
"When can their glory fade? (...) Honour the Light Brigade, / Noble six hundred!"
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