The Sea and the Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
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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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Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.
Being pure! We, life's pride and cared-for crown,
With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar,
How ring right out our sordid turbid time,
Our make and making break, are breaking, down
In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl, and pour
On ear and ear two noises too old to end
Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,
And pelt music, till none's to spill nor spend.
Have lost that cheer and charm of earth's past prime:
How these two shame this shallow and frail town!
His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score
Trench—right, the tide that ramps against the shore;
To man's last dust, drain fast towards man's first slime.