The Bourne
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
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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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Seemed too narrow to contain.
Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty reckoned of no worth:
Can hold round what once the earth
Underneath the growing grass,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
By the shadows as they pass.
There we shall not count the hours
There a very little girth
Underneath the living flowers,