The Waking Year
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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In placid lily sleeps!
Who may expected be?
The woods exchange a smile —
Prithee, my pretty housewives!
Orchard, and buttercup, and bird —
As if the resurrection
The neighbors do not yet suspect!
Were nothing very odd!
Sweep vale, and hill, and tree!
And yet how still the landscape stands,
In such a little while!
How nonchalant the wood,
A lady white within the field
Her annual secret keeps;
A lady red upon the hill
The tidy breezes with their brooms