The Wind's Visit
Emily Dickinson
Teacher card
- Published
- 1890, in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
- Length
- 20 lines, 101 words, 1 word in 11 is long
- Year band
- Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
- Themes
- wind
- Time
- 5–10 min, depending on the activity
The text
The wind tapped like a tired man,And like a host, "Come in,"I boldly answered; entered thenMy residence within
A rapid, footless guest,To offer whom a chairWere as impossible as handA sofa to the air.
No bone had he to bind him,His speech was like the pushOf numerous humming-birds at onceFrom a superior bush.
His countenance a billow,His fingers, if he pass,Let go a music, as of tunesBlown tremulous in glass.
He visited, still flitting;Then, like a timid man,Again he tapped — 't was flurriedly —And I became alone.
Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890), lines 5463–5486 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
- Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 20 lines · about 5–10 min
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#di-windvisit
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https://popplepoetry.com/find/dickinson-winds-visit · popplepoetry.com