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Poetry
Religious
And all night
long we have
not stirred
and yet God
has not said
a word! Robert
Browning –
Porphyria’s
Lover
Hush,
beating heart
of
Christabel!
Jesu, Maria,
shield her
well! Coleridge Christabel
Forbidden
What loves
me, no word
of mine shall
e’er betray,
though for
faith
unstained my
life must
forfeit pay Emily
Bronte – The
Visionary
I saw pale
kings and
princes too,
pale
warriors,
One hand on
Juan’s
carelessly
was thrown,
Quite by
mistake-she
thought it
was her own
– Lord
Byron – Don
Juan
Courtly
‘O well,
bright dame,
may you
command
the service of
Prose
People think
pleasing God
is all God
care about.
But any fool
living in the
world can
see it always
trying to
please us
back.” –
Alice Walker
– The Colour
Purple
‘It would
degrade me
to marry
Heathcliff
now; so he
shall never
know how I
love him’ –
Emily
BronteWuthering
Heights
I tell you I
have nearly
attained my
heaven; and
that of others
is altogether
unvalued,
and
uncoveted by
me!” –
Wuthering
Heights
Drama
Hark how
I’ll bribe
you: good
my lord […]
Not with
fond shekels
of the tested
gold […] but
with true
prayers –
Measure for
Measure
What a devil
is this
honour? [..]
Men lose
their lives by
it; women
what’s dearer
to ‘em, their
love’ – The
Country
Wife
"These are
love-letters,
yellowing
with
antiquity, all
Homosexual
Unrequited
death pale
were they
all; They
cried –‘La
belle Dame
sans Merci
Thee hath in
thrall!’ –
Keats – La
Belle Dame
sans Merci
He was my
North, my
South, my
East, my
West, my
working
week and my
Sunday rest
– W.H.
Auden –
Funeral
Blues
Sir Leoline;
And gladly
our stoud
chivalry will
he send
forth’ –
Coleridge Christabel
I cry your
mercy – pity
– love! Aye,
May I feel
said he (I’ll
Squeal Said
Oft the while
she seems to
smile as
infants at a
sudden light!
– Coleridge Christabel
from one
boy.....Poems
a dead boy
wrote’ Streetcar
‘He love
looking at
Shug. I love
looking at
Shug.
But Shug
don’t love
looking at
but one of
us. Him.
But that the
way it spose
to be. I know
that. But if
that so, why
my heart hurt
me so?’ –
Colour
Purple
"A person
ought to be
able to marry
men or
women or –
listen, if you
came to me
and said you
wanted to
hitch up with
Man o' War,
I'd respect
your feeling.
– Breakfast
at Tiffany’s
Why can't
exceptional
friendship,
real, real,
deep, deep
friendship! --Between
two men be
respected as
something
clean and
decent
without
being
thought of as
– FairiesCat
(OAHTR)
‘Your good
opinion, dear
madam, ‘tis
‘Unable to
stop myself I’d suddenly
said – “I
know! I
know! You
disgust
me…”’ Streetcar
Having for
instance to
act like I
His unjust
unkindness
(that in all
love! – To
Fanny Keats
she) – EE
Cummings –
May I feel
Familial
And I knew
what to do. I
made a
model of you
– Sylvia
Plath Daddy
My sin was
too much
hope of thee,
lov’d boy –
Ben Jonson –
On my First
Sonne
Two floors
below your
fingertips
still pinch
the last onehundredth of
an inch –
Simon
Armitage –
Mother, any
Distance
Destructive
Your body
has slammed
shut.
Forever. No
Brand, burn
up, bite into
its grace –
He is sure to
The vampire
who said he
was you and
drank my
‘Very soon
she was as
eager for
what's called
'You and
Edgar have
broken my
heart,
"But oh gee,
golly
goddamn,"
she said,
that must
perfect my
happiness’ –
The Country
Wife
care for Big
Mama!—I
haven't been
able to stand
the sight,
sound, or
smell of that
woman for
forty years
now!—even
when I laid
her! - Cat
Big Daddy's
made no
will? Big
Daddy's
never made
out any will
in his life,
and so this
campaign's
afoot to
impress him
- Cat
Why is it
funny? All
my family
ever had was
family—and
luxuries such
as cashmere
robes still
surprise me!Cat
I'll smother
her in—
minks! Ha
Ha! I'll strip
Now, I do
love her too;
Not out of
absolute lust,
reason
should have
quenched
her love)
hath (like an
impediment
in the
current)made
it more
violent and
unruly) –
Measure for
Measure
"an
atmosphere
of lies
infects and
poisons the
whole life of
a home.
Each breath
the children
take in such
a house is
full of the
germs of
evil." – A
Doll’s house
keys exist. –
Maya
Angelou Men
remember
her dying
face! –
Robert
Browning The
Laboratory
blood for a
year – Sylvia
Plath Daddy
I love thee
with the
breath,
smiles, tears
of all my
life! – E B
Browning How do I
love thee?
Let me count
the ways.
Romantic
Two bodies,
but one soul
to rule the
minde – M.
Wroth –
Crowne of
Sonnets
Such is the
power of
love in
gentle mind
that it can
alter the
course of all
kind –
Spenser –
Sonnet 30
Lust
Tear our
pleasures
with rough
strife
through the
(tiptop said
he don’t stop
said she oh
no said he) –
EE
loving as I
was – more
lost and
drowned
afterwards.’
– Wide
Sargasso
Sea
‘He had on a
dress suit
and patent
leather
shoes, and I
Heathcliff!
[…] I shall
not pity you,
not I. You
have killed
me - and
thriven on
it,’Wuthering
Heights
"Sure I loved
her. But it
wasn't that I
wanted to
touch her" –
jamming a
fist into her
mouth like a
bawling
baby, "I did
love him.
The rat" –
Breakfast at
Tiffany’s
her naked
and smother
her in minks
and choke
her with
diamonds
and smother
her with
minks and
hump her
from hell to
breakfast. Cat
"You know
how
devotedly,
how
inexpressibly
deeply
Torvald
loves me; he
would never
for a moment
hesitate to
give his life
for me." – A
Doll’s House
Yes, boy. I'll
tell you
something
that you
might not
[…]
But partly
led to diet
my revenge,
For that I do
suspect the
lusty Moor Othello
Believe not
that the
dribbling
dart of love
Can pierce a
Thy bed,
lust-stain'd,
shall with
lust's blood
be spotted. -
iron gates of
life –
Marvell – To
His Coy
Mistress
Cummings –
May I Feel
couldn't keep
my eyes off
him’ – The
Great Gatsby
Breakfast at
Tiffany’s
guess. I still
have desire
for women
and this is
my sixtyfifth
birthday. Cat
complete
bosom. Measure for
measure
Othello