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Spring

From poems in The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman and John R. Howard

This reader is drawn from poems celebrating spring flowers, collected in The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman and John R. Howard in the late nineteenth century. The anthology gathered verse from poets including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Burns and Keble. Each poem praises the first brave flowers that bloom while winter still lingers — the daffodil pushing through snow, the primrose by the river, the violet hiding by mossy stones. These flowers mark spring's arrival and the end of the cold. This reader lets a young child meet the wonder of the season's first blooms through the eyes of poets who loved them. This text reflects its era.

Band

Purple · Pre-readers and first readersTypical starting range: ages 4–5

Length

short · about 356 words in 4 sections · 4 pictures

Source

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations, Bliss Carman and John R. Howard

First published

see the About page in the reader

Regions

Canada · United States

Included formats

• · Web reader and PDF
• · EPUB for e-readers
• · Home-print sheet
• · Folded booklet
• · Binder edition (8.5 × 11)
• · Worksheet
• · Quick Check (6 questions) with answer key
• · Read-aloud script
• · Colouring page
• · Teacher’s Edition (members)

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