Adonis Sleeping
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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Of fondest beauty. Sideway his face reposed
To slumbery pout; just as the morning south
In midst of all, there lay a sleeping youth
In through the woven roof, and fluttering-wise,
And shook it on his hair; another flew
Four lily stalks did their white honours wed
Shading its Ethiop berries; and woodbine,
A willow bough, distilling odorous dew,
Rain'd violets upon his sleeping eyes.
Together intertwined and trammel'd fresh:
Muffling to death the pathos with his wings;
By tenderest pressure, a faint damask mouth
Hard by,
Stood serene Cupids watching silently.
Of velvet leaves, and bugle blooms divine.
And, ever and anon, uprose to look
On one white arm, and tenderly unclosed,
Disparts a dew-lipp'd rose. Above his head,
The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh,
All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue,
One, kneeling to a lyre, touch'd the strings,
At the youth's slumber; while another took
To make a coronal; and round him grew