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πŸ–‹ Homeschool Poems-of-the-Week (Recent Posts)

A collection of great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on poets and poetry from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week, and print your own homeschool poetry calendar for the whole year on our main River Houses calendar page to follow along with us! 😊

πŸ–‹ β˜€οΈ WONDERFUL WORDS: Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day

8 April 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“May memory restore again and againΒ / The smallest color of the smallest day:Β / Time is the school in which we learn,Β / Time is the fire in which we burn.” (Our Heraclitean homeschool poem of the week, from Delmore Schwartz, for April days.)

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πŸ–‹ β˜”οΈ WONDERFUL WORDS: β€œWhan that Aprill…”

1 April 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“And smale foweles maken melodye, / That slepen al the nyght with open ye / (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages).” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Geoffrey Chaucer, for April showers.)

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πŸ–‹ 🌱 WONDERFUL WORDS: Nothing Gold Can Stay

22 March 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for early spring.)

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πŸ–‹ πŸ—‘ WONDERFUL WORDS: The Ides of March

15 March 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“And if you can’t curb your ambitions,Β / at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously.Β / And the higher you go,Β / the more searching and careful you need to be.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Constantine Cavafy, for the Ides of March.)

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πŸ–‹ πŸ”­ WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

8 March 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Till rising and gliding out IΒ wander’d off by myself,Β / InΒ the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Β / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, contrariwise, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)

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πŸ–‹ πŸ” WONDERFUL WORDS: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

1 March 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Wallace Stevens, for the earliest migrants of spring.)

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πŸ–‹ πŸ”­ WONDERFUL WORDS: Watchers of the Skies

22 February 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He star’d at the PacificΒ β€” and all his men / Look’d at each other with a wild surmiseΒ β€” / Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Keats, for all homeschool stargazers.)

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πŸ–‹ 🌨 AN UNEXPECTED β€œSNOW-STORM” for Our Southern Homeschool Friends

18 February 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“All friends shut out, the housemates sit / Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed / In a tumultuous privacy of storm.” (A bonus homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emerson, for unexpected blizzards.)

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πŸ–‹ 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: The Truly Great

15 February 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun / And left the vivid air signed with their honour.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Stephen Spender, for the great birthdays of February.)

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πŸ–‹ ❀️ WONDERFUL WORDS: β€œUnwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!”

8 February 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for Valentine Week.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

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