Storm

Emily Dickinson

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Published: 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Length: 17 lines, 88 words, 1 word in 22 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

There came a wind like a bugle;It quivered through the grass,And a green chill upon the heatSo ominous did passWe barred the windows and the doorsAs from an emerald ghost;The doom's electric moccasonThat very instant passed.On a strange mob of panting trees,And fences fled away,And rivers where the houses ranThe living looked that day.The bell within the steeple wildThe flying tidings whirled.How much can comeAnd much can go,And yet abide the world!

Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 5382–5398 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 · 25 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-storm

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