Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare
Teacher card
- Form
- sonnet
- Published
- 1609, in Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Length
- 14 lines, 121 words, 1 word in 121 is long
- Year band
- Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
- Themes
- autumn, retirement, winter
- Time
- 5–10 min, depending on the activity
The text
That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou see’st the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west;Which by and by black night doth take away,Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
William Shakespeare (died 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609), lines 1262–1275 of Project Gutenberg ebook #1041. 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 names in posy cardsin posy · 14 lines · about 5–10 min
See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
posy.popplepoetry.com/sources#sh-73 - Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 14 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#sh-73
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