Spring Quiet

Christina Rossetti

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Published: 1866, in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
Length: 25 lines, 98 words, 1 word in 20 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: spring, sun
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Gone were but the Winter,Come were but the Spring,I would go to a covertWhere the birds sing;

Where in the whitethornSingeth a thrush,And a robin singsIn the holly-bush.

Full of fresh scentsAre the budding boughsArching high overA cool green house:

Full of sweet scents,And whispering airWhich sayeth softly:'We spread no snare;

'Here dwell in safety,Here dwell alone,With a clear streamAnd a mossy stone.

'Here the sun shinethMost shadily;Here is heard an echoOf the far sea,Though far off it be.'

Christina Rossetti (died 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866), lines 4690–4719 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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