A Summer Shower

Emily Dickinson

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Published: 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Length: 16 lines, 89 words, 1 word in 18 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: rain, summer
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

A drop fell on the apple tree,Another on the roof;A half a dozen kissed the eaves,And made the gables laugh.

A few went out to help the brook,That went to help the sea.Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,What necklaces could be!

The dust replaced in hoisted roads,The birds jocoser sung;The sunshine threw his hat away,The orchards spangles hung.

The breezes brought dejected lutes,And bathed them in the glee;The East put out a single flag,And signed the fete away.

Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 1473–1491 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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See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
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