Refuge

Emily Dickinson

Teacher card

Published: 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Length: 8 lines, 44 words, 1 word in 44 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: rain, wind
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

The clouds their backs together laid,The north begun to push,The forests galloped till they fell,The lightning skipped like mice;The thunder crumbled like a stuff —How good to be safe in tombs,Where nature's temper cannot reach,Nor vengeance ever comes!

Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 2284–2291 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

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Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 8 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-refuge

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Link for the whole text

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