Bitter for Sweet

Christina Rossetti

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Published: 1866, in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
Length: 8 lines, 49 words, 1 word in 49 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: autumn, winter
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Summer is gone with all its roses,Its sun and perfumes and sweet flowers,Its warm air and refreshing showers:And even Autumn closes.

Yea, Autumn's chilly self is going,And winter comes which is yet colder;Each day the hoar-frost waxes bolder,And the last buds cease blowing.

Christina Rossetti (died 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866), lines 2301–2309 of Project Gutenberg ebook #16950. 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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