Important Poetry Quotes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tonight I can Write | I no longer loved her, that's certain, but how I loved her. |
| Tonight I can Write | She loved me, and sometimes I loved her too. |
| Dear Danny Ledbetter | Is your face still freckled and round? |
| Dear Danny Ledbetter | And am I still your girl? |
| Final Note to Clark | You are only Clark Kent after all. |
| Final Note to Clark | We Are who we are, two faithful readers, not wonder woman and not superman |
| Hallelujah | Well your faith was strong, but you needed proof |
| Hallelujah | It's a cold, and it's a broken Hallelujah |
| Ode to Billy Joe | "oh by the way,he said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge, and she and Billy Joe was throwin' something off the Tallahatchee Bridge." |
| Ode to Billy Joe | I spend a lotta time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge,and drop 'em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchee bridge |
| An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; |
| An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love |
| An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds |
| Funeral Blues | He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, |
| Funeral Blues | The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood, For nothing now can ever come to any good. |
| Highwayman | The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor |
| Highwayman | "Now keep good watch!" and they kissed her. She heard the dead man say- Look for me by moonlight; Watch for me by moonlight; I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! |
| Highwayman | Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath, Then her finger moved in the moonlight, Her musket shattered the moonlight, Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him-with her death. |
| When you are Old | When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; |
| The Invention of Fractions | God created the whole numbers: the first born, the seventh seal, Ten Commandments etched in stone, the Twelve Tribes of Israel — Ten we've already lost — |
| The Invention of Fractions | It took humankind to need less than this; to invent fractions, percentages, decimals. Only humankind could need the concepts of splintering and dividing, of things lost or broken, of settling for the part instead of the whole. |
| The Courage that my Mother had | The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill. |
| The Courage that my Mother had | The thing she took into the grave!— That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have. |
| The Sacred | in their chairs, the most serious of them all said it was his car, being in it alone, his tape deck playing things he'd chosen, and others knew the truth had been spoken and began speaking about their rooms, |
| The Sacred | who understood the bright altar of the dashboard and how far away a car could take him from the need to speak, or to answer, the key in having a key and putting it in, and going. |
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