To make a prairie

Emily Dickinson

Teacher card

Published: 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Length: 5 lines, 27 words, 1 word in 14 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: birthday, thanks
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, —One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will doIf bees are few.

Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 8858–8862 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 how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
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