I can’t believe we’re on day eight already (especially as I’m sitting here on 19th November). More prompts, and feel free to add your own in the comments. Do come back to any of the prompts listed at any time during the challenge and use them as you wish.
1.
Where have they been?
2. She left the web, she left the loom,
she made three paces through the room
(Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shallott)
3. Think of what our nation stands for.
Books from Boots and country lanes.
(John Betjeman – In Westminster Abbey)
4. The envious barking of your saucy tongue
(Shakespeare – First Part of King Henry VI)
5. Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle
But wherefore set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
(The Idiot Boy – Lyrical Ballads)
6.
Who is the woman with her back to us?
7. Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street.
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand.
(Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam)
8. I’ll be with you in apple blossom time. I’ll be with you to change your name to mine.
9. Your lot is awful and your home unstable!
(Osip Mandelshtam – The Falling is the Constant)
10. I feel pretty and witty and gay, and I pity anyone who isn’t me today… (West Side Story)
