Wild nights

Emily Dickinson

Teacher card

Published: 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Length: 12 lines, 43 words, 1 word in 43 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: love, wedding
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Wild nights! Wild nights!Were I with thee,Wild nights should beOur luxury!

Futile the windsTo a heart in port, —Done with the compass,Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!Ah! the sea!Might I but moorTo-night in thee!

Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 4419–4432 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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