The Sun's Travels

Robert Louis Stevenson

Teacher card

Published: 1885, in A Child's Garden of Verses
Length: 12 lines, 77 words, 1 word in 26 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: sun
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

The sun is not a-bed, when IAt night upon my pillow lie;Still round the earth his way he takes,And morning after morning makes.

While here at home, in shining day,We round the sunny garden play,Each little Indian sleepy-headIs being kissed and put to bed.

And when at eve I rise from tea,Day dawns beyond the Atlantic Sea;And all the children in the WestAre getting up and being dressed.

Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), lines 1074–1087 of Project Gutenberg ebook #25609. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

One link and one task line for each activity. Send a student the one you want them to do, or print this page and hand it round; each link has a QR code.

Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 12 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#rl-suntravels

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Link for the whole text

https://popplepoetry.com/find/stevenson-suns-travels · popplepoetry.com