Poem Study: The Sun Has Set, or Bed in Summer

Let’s read a poem and study it together!

Not sure how to study a poem? Here are some ideas! Choose one or all of these:

1. Read aloud and enjoy the poem
2. Neatly write out your favorite stanza for handwriting practice or…
3. Copy and paste the poem into your word processor and print it out
4. Draw a picture about the poem

5. Circle or color-code the words that rhyme!

6. Read more about the author’s life
7. Share with someone you love <3

The Sun Has Set

The sun has set, and the long grass now
Waves dreamily in the evening wind;
And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone
In some warm nook a couch to find.

In all the lonely landscape round
I see no light and hear no sound,
Except the wind that far away
Come sighing o’er the healthy sea.

~Emily Jane Brontë

Bed in Summer

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

~Robert Louis Stevenson

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