On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats
1795 to 1821
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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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Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
The Poetry of earth is never dead:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
In summer luxury,—he has never done
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
That is the Grasshopper's—he takes the lead