In Memoriam, CXIII

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Teacher card

Published: 1850, in In Memoriam A. H. H.
Length: 20 lines, 130 words, 1 word in 26 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: spring
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Now fades the last long streak of snow,Now burgeons every maze of quickAbout the flowering squares, and thickBy ashen roots the violets blow.

Now rings the woodland loud and long,The distance takes a lovelier hue,And drown’d in yonder living blueThe lark becomes a sightless song.

Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,The flocks are whiter down the vale,And milkier every milky sailOn winding stream or distant sea;

Where now the seamew pipes, or divesIn yonder greening gleam, and flyThe happy birds, that change their skyTo build and brood; that live their lives.

From land to land; and in my breastSpring wakens too; and my regretBecomes an April violet,And buds and blossoms like the rest.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (died 1892), In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850), lines 3766–3789 of Project Gutenberg ebook #70950. 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 · 20 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#te-cxiii

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