November

Emily Dickinson

Teacher card

Published: 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Length: 16 lines, 80 words, 1 word in 16 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: autumn
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Besides the autumn poets sing,A few prosaic daysA little this side of the snowAnd that side of the haze.

A few incisive mornings,A few ascetic eyes, —Gone Mr. Bryant's golden-rod,And Mr. Thomson's sheaves.

Still is the bustle in the brook,Sealed are the spicy valves;Mesmeric fingers softly touchThe eyes of many elves.

Perhaps a squirrel may remain,My sentiments to share.Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind,Thy windy will to bear!

Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 5887–5905 of Project Gutenberg ebook #12242. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

One link and one task line for each activity. Send a student the one you want them to do, or print this page and hand it round; each link has a QR code.

Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 16 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#di-november

Send the whole hand-out

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Link for the whole text

https://popplepoetry.com/find/dickinson-november · popplepoetry.com