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45 Cards in this Set
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“———- up me —- with me —- ———-“ (checking out me history) |
Bandage up me eye with me own history |
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“Hopeful ——— to ———- river” (checking out me history) |
Hopeful stream to freedom river |
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“I c——— out me ———“ (checking out me history) |
I carving out me identity |
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“A shaven —— —— of ———— ——————“ (kamikaze) |
A shaven head full of powerful incantations |
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“Time ——- its tanks —- —- ———— rises between —“ (The Emigrée) |
Time rolls its tanks and the frontier rises between us |
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“Arcing in ———- like a —— —— waving” (kamikaze) |
Arcing in swathes like a huge flag waving |
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“The ——- over———- like a ———— chest” (Poppies) |
The world overflowing like a treasure chest |
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“Leaned against — —— - ————“ (Poppies) |
Leaned against it like a wishbone |
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“Your play——— ——- catching on —- ——“ (Poppies) |
Your playground voice catching on the wind |
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“I see ——- day——- on the ——- ——“ (Remains) |
I see broad daylight on the other side |
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“His blood ——— stays on the ———“ (remains) |
His blood shadow stays on the street |
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“Dug in ——— ——- lines” (remains) |
Dug in behind enemy lines |
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“Bullets ———— the ——- out of —- —-“ (Bayonet charge) |
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air |
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“In what cold ————- of —- ——- —- —- nations —- — the hand ———— that ———“ (bayonet charge) |
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second |
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“His terrors ——— ————“ (bayonet charge) |
His terrors touchy dynamite |
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“We are ———— — ——- —- ——— ——-“ (storm on the island) |
We are prepared we build our houses squat |
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“This was — ——— the ——— we ——-“ (kamikaze) |
This was no longer the father we loved |
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“Spits like —- —— —- ——— ———“ (storm on the island) |
Spits like a tame cat turned savage |
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“Space is - ——-“ (storm on the island) |
Space is a salvo |
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“Our brains —— — the merciless —— —— ——- that knife us” (exposure) |
Our brains ache in the merciless iced winds that knive us |
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“Dawn massing in —- —— —- ————— ——“ (exposure) |
Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army |
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“All their —— —- ice, —- nothing ———-“ (exposure) |
All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens |
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“Half a league, —— - ———, —— a ——— ———“ (the charge of the light brigade) |
Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards |
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“Theirs not to —— ——-, Theirs not to ——— —-, Theirs but to — —- —-“ (the charge of the light brigade) |
Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs not to do and die |
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“Come thro’ the —— — ——- Back —— —- ——- — ——“ (charge of the light brigade) |
Came thro’ the jaws of death Back from the mouth of hell |
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“Wilt please —- —- —- —— at her” (my last duchess) |
Wilt please you sit and look at her |
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“My gift — - nine- ———- - year- —- ——“ ( my last duchess) |
My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name |
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“The ——— filled ——————“ (The Emigrée) |
The bright filled paperweight |
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“ I gave ———— ; then all ——— ———- ————“ ( my last duchess) |
I gave commands ; then all smiles stopped together |
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“Small ———- glittering — —- ——“ (the prelude) |
Small circles glittering in the moon |
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“And measured ——— like a ——— ——- strode ——- —“ (the prelude) |
And measured motion like a living thing strode after me |
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“A trouble — — ———“ (the prelude) |
A trouble to my dreams |
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“I wonder ———- —— chartered ———, —— ——- the ————- ——— —— ——“ (London) |
I wonder through each chartered street near where the chartered Thames does flow |
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“The —— - ——— manacles - ——“ (London) |
The mind-forged manacles I hear |
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“The ———— ———“ (London) |
The marriage hearse |
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“I met - ————- —— — antique ——“ (ozymandias) |
I met a traveller from an antique land |
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“Look on — ——-, — mighty —- ———-!” (Ozymandias) |
Look on my works, ur mighty and despair! |
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“Boundless —- —— The —— and ——- ——- stretch —- ——“ (ozymandias) |
Boundless and care the lone and level sands stretch far away |
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“My shadow ——- — ———— of ————“ (The Emigrée) |
My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight |
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“Pages smoothed —- ——— and ——— trans——— with ————-“ (Tissue) |
Pages smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention |
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“Fly our ——- like ——- ——-“ (Tissue) |
Fly our lives like paper kites |
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“A ——- design —— ——— ———“ (Tissue) |
A grand design with living tissue |
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“Spools of ————- —- —- — ———- ——“ (war photographer) |
Spoils of suffering set out in ordered rows |
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“All flesh — ——-“ ( war photographer) |
All flesh is grass |
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“The readers ———— prick —— ——- ———- the baths —- ———— ——-“ (war photographer) |
The readers eyeballs prick with tears between the baths and prelunch beers |
