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๐Ÿ–‹ Post Archives: Homeschool Poems-of-the-Week

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! ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿ–‹ WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Birthday to Emily Dickinson!

10 December 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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Today is the birthday of the great American poet Emily Dickinson (1830โ€“1886), so she provides us with our homeschool poem-of-the-week for the second week of December. It'sย poem for all lovers of books and language, and a great one for your young homescholars to memorize:
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๐Ÿ—ก WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œThe Hunter Home From the Hillโ€

2 December 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“โ€™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.)

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๐Ÿฆƒ WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious โ€œThanksgiving Magicโ€

25 November 2019 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!)

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๐ŸŒ  WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors

15 November 2019 by Bob O'Hara

โ€œNo star is lost at all /ย From all the star-sown sky.โ€ (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)

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

๐Ÿ•Š 11/11: โ€œFor the Fallenโ€

8 November 2019 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.)

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๐Ÿ‚ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œA Leaf-Treaderโ€

2 November 2019 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.)

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๐ŸŒ… WONDERFUL WORDS: Turning Toward the Morning

23 October 2019 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.)

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๐ŸŽ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œAfter Apple-Pickingโ€

15 October 2019 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.)

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๐Ÿ–‹ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œThe Frosts were her conditionโ€

8 October 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“The Tyrian would not come / Until the North โ€” invoke it.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for all late bloomers.)

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๐ŸŒฐ ๐ŸŒฝ ๐ŸŽ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulnessโ€

2 October 2019 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.)

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๐Ÿƒ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œOur Summer made her light escapeโ€

23 September 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away โ€” / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)

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๐Ÿ–‹ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œWhen I said autumn, autumn brokeโ€

16 September 2019 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.)

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