Sonnet 98
William Shakespeare
Teacher card
- Form
- sonnet
- Published
- 1609, in Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Length
- 14 lines, 118 words, 1 word in 59 is long
- Year band
- Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
- Themes
- love, spring, summer
- Time
- 5–10 min, depending on the activity
The text
From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smellOf different flowers in odour and in hue,Could make me any summer’s story tell,Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;They were but sweet, but figures of delight,Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.Yet seem’d it winter still, and you away,As with your shadow I with these did play.
William Shakespeare (died 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609), lines 1687–1700 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-98 - 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-98
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