Under the greenwood tree (As You Like It)

William Shakespeare

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Published: 1623, in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Length: 8 lines, 37 words, 1 word in 37 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: summer, winter
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd turn his merry noteUnto the sweet bird’s throat,Come hither, come hither, come hither!Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare (died 1616), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1623), lines 15934–15941 of Project Gutenberg ebook #100. 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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Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 8 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#sx-greenwood

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