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In Memoriam, LXXXIV

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Published: 1850, in In Memoriam A. H. H.
Length: 16 lines, 99 words, 1 word in 25 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: rain, sun
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Sweet after showers, ambrosial air,That rollest from the gorgeous gloomOf evening over brake and bloomAnd meadow, slowly breathing bare

The round of space, and rapt belowThro’ all the dewy-tassell’d wood,And shadowing down the horned floodIn ripples, fan my brows and blow

The fever from my cheek, and sighThe full new life that feeds thy breathThroughout my frame, till Doubt and Death,Ill brethren, let the fancy fly

From belt to belt of crimson seasOn leagues of odour streaming far,To where in yonder orient starA hundred spirits whisper ‘Peace.’

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (died 1892), In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850), lines 2739–2757 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 · 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-lxxxiv

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