Written in March

William Wordsworth

Teacher card

Published: 1807, in The Poetical Works, volume 2
Length: 20 lines, 94 words, 1 word in 24 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: spring, sun
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

The Cock is crowing,The stream is flowing,The small birds twitter,The lake doth glitter,The green field sleeps in the sun;The oldest and youngestAre at work with the strongest;The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!

Like an army defeatedThe snow hath retreated,And now doth fare illOn the top of the bare hill;The Ploughboy is whooping—anon—anon:There's joy in the mountains;There's life in the fountains;Small clouds are sailing,Blue sky prevailing;The rain is over and gone!

William Wordsworth (died 1850), The Poetical Works, volume 2 (1807), lines 17196–17216 of Project Gutenberg ebook #12145. 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.
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