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In Memoriam, LXXXI

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Published: 1850, in In Memoriam A. H. H.
Length: 16 lines, 92 words, 1 word in 15 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: spring
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Dip down upon the northern shore,O sweet new-year delaying long;Thou doest expectant nature wrong.Delaying long, delay no more.

What stays thee from the clouded noons,Thy sweetness from its proper place?Can trouble live with April days,Or sadness in the summer moons?

Bring orchis, bring the fox-glove spire,The little speedwell’s darling blue,Deep tulips dasht with fiery dew,Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.

O thou, new-year, delaying long,Delayest the sorrow in my blood,That longs to burst a frozen bud,And flood a fresher throat with song.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (died 1892), In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850), lines 2500–2518 of Project Gutenberg ebook #70950. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

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Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 16 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-lxxxi

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