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by Bob O'Hara
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Today is the birthday of the great American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), so she provides us with our homeschool poem-of-the-week for the second week of December. It's poem for all lovers of books and language, and a great one for your young homescholars to memorize:He ate ...
by Bob O'Hara
“’Tis evening on the moorland free, / The starlit wave is still: / Home is the sailor from the sea, / The hunter from the hill.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the beginning of Orion Term.)
by Bob O'Hara
“Oh, some like magic made by wands, / And some read magic out of books, / And some like fairy spells and charms / But I like magic made by cooks!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for Thanksgiving!)
by Bob O'Hara
“No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
by Bob O'Hara
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Laurence Binyon, for Veterans Day and Armistice Day.)
by Bob O'Hara
“I have been treading on leaves all day until I am autumn-tired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for the falling leaves.)
by Bob O'Hara
“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gordon Bok, for October’s end.)
by Bob O'Hara
“I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for apple season.)
by Bob O'Hara
“The Tyrian would not come / Until the North — invoke it.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for all late bloomers.)
by Bob O'Hara
“Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find / Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, / Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Keats, for fall.)
by Bob O'Hara
“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away — / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)
by Bob O'Hara
“But I am carried back against / My will into a childhood where / Autumn is bonfires, marbles, smoke; / I lean against my window fenced / From evocations in the air. / When I said autumn, autumn broke.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Elizabeth Jennings, for the coming fall.)
