Lyric Poem · Spring
Spring is the Period
Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.
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“Spring is the Period” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/spring-is-the-period
Quick facts
- Poem
- Spring is the Period
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Spring, Nature, Peace, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBSpring is the Period by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 1280c4599ab8b42d…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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