Sonnet 97
William Shakespeare
Teacher card
- Form
- sonnet
- Published
- 1609, in Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Length
- 14 lines, 107 words, 1 word in 21 is long
- Year band
- Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
- Themes
- autumn, love, winter
- Time
- 5–10 min, depending on the activity
The text
How like a winter hath my absence beenFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!What old December’s bareness everywhere!And yet this time removed was summer’s time;The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,Like widow’d wombs after their lords’ decease:Yet this abundant issue seem’d to meBut hope of orphans, and unfather’d fruit;For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,And, thou away, the very birds are mute:Or, if they sing, ’tis with so dull a cheer,That leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near.
William Shakespeare (died 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609), lines 1670–1683 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-97 - 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-97
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