Theme · 62 poems

Spring Poems

The year's at the spring: poems of blossom, return, and beginnings.

LengthForm

Winter under cultivation

Emily Dickinson

Winter under cultivationIs as arable as Spring.

2 lines · lyric

First Warm Rain

The QuillOak Editors

first warm rain of spring —the umbrellas stay foldedeveryone looks up

3 lines · haiku

Crocus in the Frost

The QuillOak Editors

crocus in the frosttoo early, and unbothered —teach me that, small one

3 lines · haiku

Not at Home to Callers

Emily Dickinson

Not at Home to CallersSays the Naked Tree —Bonnet due in April —

4 lines · lyric

A little Madness in the Spring

Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the SpringIs wholesome even for the King,But God be with the Clown —

6 lines · lyric

Spring comes on the World

Emily Dickinson

Spring comes on the World —I sight the Aprils —Hueless to me until thou come

7 lines · lyric

Seed Beneath the Ground

The QuillOak Editors

The earth makes no announcementwhen winter's grip lets go —just crocuses, like trumpets,

8 lines · lyric

A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring

Emily Dickinson

A Pang is more conspicuous in SpringIn contrast with the things that singNot Birds entirely — but Minds —

8 lines · lyric

Absent Place—an April Day

Emily Dickinson

Absent Place — an April Day —Daffodils a-blowHomesick curiosity

8 lines · lyric

I cannot meet the Spring unmoved

Emily Dickinson

I cannot meet the Spring unmoved —I feel the old desire —A Hurry with a lingering, mixed,

8 lines · lyric

Spring is the Period

Emily Dickinson

Spring is the PeriodExpress from God.Among the other seasons

8 lines · lyric

The inundation of the Spring

Emily Dickinson

The inundation of the SpringEnlarges every soul —It sweeps the tenement away

8 lines · lyric

The Notice that is called the Spring

Emily Dickinson

The Notice that is called the SpringIs but a month from here —Put up my Heart thy Hoary work

8 lines · lyric

The Succession of the Four Sweet Months

Robert Herrick

First, April, she with mellow showersOpens the way for early flowers;Then after her comes smiling May,

8 lines · lyric

To the Water-nymphs Drinking at Thefountain

Robert Herrick

Reach with your whiter hands to meSome crystal of the spring;And I about the cup shall see

8 lines · lyric

In The Green And Gallant Spring

Robert Louis Stevenson

IN the green and gallant Spring,Love and the lyre I thought to sing,And kisses sweet to give and take

8 lines · lyric

On Robert Emmet's Grave

Percy Bysshe Shelley

...No trump tells thy virtues — the grave where they restWith thy dust shall remain unpolluted by fame,

9 lines · lyric

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower

Emily Dickinson

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,But I could never sell —If you would like to borrow,

10 lines · lyric

A Lament

Percy Bysshe Shelley

O world! O life! O time!On whose last steps I climb,Trembling at that where I had stood before;

10 lines · lyric

Upon Roses

Robert Herrick

Under a lawn, than skies more clear,Some ruffled Roses nestling were,And snugging there, they seem'd to lie

10 lines · lyric

Pippa's Song

Robert Browning · 1841

PippaPassesRobert

10 lines · lyric

Autumn Within

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is autumn; not withoutBut within me is the cold.Youth and spring are all about;

12 lines · lyric

The Apron of Flowers

Robert Herrick

To gather flowers, Sappha went,And homeward she did bringWithin her lawny continent,

12 lines · lyric

Upon Mrs Eliz. Wheeler, Under the Name Ofamarillis

Robert Herrick

Sweet Amarillis, by a spring'sSoft and soul-melting murmurings,Slept; and thus sleeping, thither flew

12 lines · lyric

Spring Song

Robert Louis Stevenson

THE air was full of sun and birds,The fresh air sparkled clearly.Remembrance wakened in my heart

12 lines · lyric

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

A. E. Housman · 1896

Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough,And stands about the woodland ride

12 lines · lyric

Sonnet: England in 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flowThrough public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, —

14 lines · lyric

To the Nile

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Month after month the gathered rains descendDrenching yon secret Aethiopian dells,And from the desert's ice-girt pinnacles

14 lines · lyric

Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase

William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die,But as the riper should by time decease,

14 lines · sonnet

Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

William Shakespeare

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewestNow is the time that face should form another;Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,

14 lines · sonnet

Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made

William Shakespeare

What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since every one, hath every one, one shade,

14 lines · sonnet

Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now

William Shakespeare

Against my love shall be as I am now,With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow

14 lines · sonnet

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring

William Shakespeare

From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,

14 lines · sonnet

Spring

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Birds' love and birds' songFlying here and there,Birds' songand birds' love

16 lines · lyric

Before you thought of Spring

Emily Dickinson

Before you thought of SpringExcept as a SurmiseYou see — God bless his suddenness —

16 lines · lyric

Otho

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou wert not, Cassius, and thou couldst not be,Last of the Romans, though thy memory claimFrom Brutus his own glory — and on thee

16 lines · lyric

The Solitary

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitudeTo live alone, an isolated thing?To see the busy beings round thee spring,

18 lines · lyric

If I could bribe them by a Rose

Emily Dickinson

If I could bribe them by a RoseI'd bring them every flower that growsFrom Amherst to Cashmere!

19 lines · lyric

Over The Land Is April

Robert Louis Stevenson

OVER the land is April,Over my heart a rose;Over the high, brown mountain

19 lines · lyric

A Light exists in Spring

Emily Dickinson

A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period —

20 lines · lyric

Flower God, God Of The Spring

Robert Louis Stevenson

FLOWER god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,Here I wander in April

20 lines · lyric

Farewell Frost, or Welcome Spring

Robert Herrick

Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appearReclothed in fresh and verdant diaper;Thaw'd are the snows; and now the lusty Spring

22 lines · lyric

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument

William Blake

Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air,Hungry clouds swag on the deep.Once meek, and in a perilous path

22 lines · lyric

A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its lovliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keep

23 lines · lyric

I Years had been from Home

Emily Dickinson

I Years had been from HomeAnd now before the DoorI dared not enter, lest a Face

24 lines · lyric

Lines Written In Early Spring

William Wordsworth

I heard a thousand blended notes,While in a grove I sate reclined,In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts

24 lines · lyric

Spring Quiet

Christina Rossetti

Gone were but the Winter,Come were but the Spring,I would go to a covert

25 lines · lyric

Earth's Answer

William Blake

Earth raised up her headFrom the darkness dread and drear,Her light fled,

25 lines · lyric

Spring

William Blake

Sound the flute! Now it's mute! Bird's delight,

27 lines · lyric

M’Pherson’s Farewell

Robert Burns

FAREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong, The wretch’s destinie!M’Pherson’s time will not be long

28 lines · lyric

Spring Carol

Robert Louis Stevenson

WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush,And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,With sun on the meadows

28 lines · lyric

I have a Bird in spring

Emily Dickinson

I have a Bird in springWhich for myself doth sing —The spring decoys.

30 lines · lyric

The Echoing Green

William Blake

The sun does arise,And make happy the skies;The merry bells ring

30 lines · lyric

Winter: My Secret

Christina Rossetti

I tell my secret? No indeed, not I:Perhaps some day, who knows?But not today; it froze, and blows, and snows,

34 lines · lyric

The Dumb Soldier

Robert Louis Stevenson

When the grass was closely mown,Walking on the lawn alone,In the turf a hole I found

36 lines · lyric

Composed in Spring

Robert Burns

AGAIN rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues:Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,

38 lines · lyric

Warble for Lilac-Time

Walt Whitman

WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time,Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature’s sake, and sweet life’s sake—and death’s the same as life’s,

38 lines · lyric

These, I, Singing in Spring

Walt Whitman

THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers,(For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)

40 lines · lyric

The Book of Thel. Part I

William Blake

The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks,All but the youngest: she in paleness sought the secret air.To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:

43 lines · lyric

Nature’s Law: A Poem

Robert Burns

LET other heroes boast their scars, The marks of sturt and strife:And other poets sing of wars,

48 lines · lyric