AQA Power and Conflict Poem Quotes

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert."

"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command."

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works ye mighty and despair!"

"boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away"

"I wander through the chartered street, where the chartered Thames does flow"

"Marks in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe"

"The mind-forged manacles I hear"

"The hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace walls"

"How the youthful harlot's cure,
Blasts the new-born infant's tear
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"

"Small circles glittering idly in the moon"

"She was an elfin pinnance; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake"

"As I rose upon the stroke, my boat went heaving through the water like a swan"

"She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad, too easily impressed; she liked whate'er she looked on"

"She thanked men, - good! but thanked them somehow"

"I gave commands and all smiles stopped together"

"Valley Of Death"

"Rode the six hundred"
"Not the six hundred"
"Left of the six hundred"
"Noble six hundred!"

"Into the Jaws of Death,
Into the Mouth of Hell"

"Honour the charge they made,
honour the light brigade"

"The merciless iced east winds that knive us..."

"Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous"

"But nothing happens"
"What are we doing here?"
"Is it that we are dying?"
"We turn back to our dying"
"For love of Good seems dying"

"We hear mad gusts tugging on the wire, like twitching agonies of men among its brambles"

"Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"

"Spits like a tamed cat turned SAVAGE"

"Bullets smacking the belly out of the air"

"Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"

"Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs"

"Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle"