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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPRING Matches Found: 1671 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` &: SEVEN POEMS: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is like a perhaps hand Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Spring &: SEVEN POEMS: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is like a perhaps hand Last Line: Without breaking anything Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Spring A BACKWARD SPRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are afraid to put forth buds Last Line: What happened to it in mid-december. Subject(s): Spring A BALLAD OF APPEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song wakes with every wakening year Last Line: Sweet water from the well of song. Subject(s): Spring; Wind A CELEBRATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A middle-northern march, now as always Last Line: Time is a green orchid. Subject(s): Spring A CHILD'S DAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a little child Last Line: And dead leaves on a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Day; Memory; Spring; Childhood A CLIMATIC MADRIGAL, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to go a-maying Last Line: When we have such splendid sleighing! Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Weather A CLOUD SHADOW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A breeze discovered my open book Last Line: For fear I would make her miss the place Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring A COLD SPRING, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold spring: / the violet was flawed on the lawn Subject(s): Spring A COQUETTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am never in doubt of her goodness Last Line: Whose birthdays are three, when all told. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring A CRABBED SONG OF SPRING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, I am tired! Last Line: Spring, we are old. Subject(s): Spring A CUCKOO SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold Last Line: Run to thy marriage bells, birds of the day-time. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring A CYCLE, by MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN Poem Text First Line: Spring-time -- is it spring-time? Last Line: Thou my life, my best beloved, all my spring-time comes with thee. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude; Spring; Fall; Loneliness A DESCRIPTION OF THE SPRING, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now all nature seemed in love Last Line: To welcome the new-livery'd year. Variant Title(s): A May Day Subject(s): Spring A DIRGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why were you born when the snow was falling? Last Line: For sweet things dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The A DISTANT SPRING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who love the spring so well Last Line: Blossoms white and blossoms red! Subject(s): Spring A FORETASTE OF SPRING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sweet and golden afternoon Last Line: Night is nigh! Subject(s): Afternoon; Birds; Flowers; Laughter; Spring A GYPSY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Can tute rakker romany? Last Line: To my old sweetheart in her springtime gown Subject(s): Fields;gypsies;singing & Singers;spring;towns; Pastures;meadows;leas;gipsies A HILL SONG, by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON Poem Text First Line: There is a little hint of spring Last Line: Invisible from paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Merrill, Helen M. Subject(s): Spring A HINT OF SPRING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a hint of spring - for Last Line: And sniffed again -- so good I felt! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Spring A LAST WALK TOGETHER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From end to end of the skies Last Line: Springtime and love and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring A LEAFLESS TREE, by ANNA LOUISE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: I like to see Last Line: And new springs start. Subject(s): Spring A LITTLE LONGER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Beloved, can we bid thee linger here! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Love; Spring A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it were his own! Subject(s): Spring; Human Behavior A LITTLE PAGE'S SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's lark at morning I would be Last Line: And maybe praise! Subject(s): Religion; Spring; Theology A LYRIC CALENDAR, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black-winged robbers of the north Last Line: All day long in the sere oak wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Calendars; Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall A MARCH BROWN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Once more come clarion and blue-hearted dawns Last Line: Is yearly first to bid me forth again from town! Subject(s): March (month); Spring A MARCH GLEE, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wild geese honking Last Line: Her foot is on the stair. Subject(s): Birds; Spring A MAY DAY ORISON, by ELIZABETH STANLEY TROTTER Poem Text First Line: These are the children of the may Last Line: Emblem of happy hours. Subject(s): Angels; Children; May (month); Spring; Childhood A MEMORY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four ducks on a pond Last Line: To remember with tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Ducks; Spring; Mallards; Drakes A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o! Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day A MID SONG FOR SPRING, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Early come the pasque flowers Last Line: When the winter's long! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter A MIDSUMMER MEMORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift april ardors bring the white of may Last Line: Rests, circled by that promise: they shall see! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Soul; Spring; Arthur, King; Dead, The A NEW OLD SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring comes slowly up this way Last Line: The spring comes slowly up this way. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Spring A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These winds and suns of spring Last Line: 03/26/80 Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips A POEM OF SPRING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes with breezes blowing Last Line: With wedlock they come hand in hand. Subject(s): Spring A POET'S FANCIES: 5. THE SPRING TO THE SUMMER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet of the time to be Last Line: I led thy feet before I died. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring; Summer A PRAYER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me work and be glad Last Line: Let me work and be glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Spring A PRAYER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father in heaven! From whom the simplest flower Last Line: Be as the meek wild-flower's -- if transient, yet not vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Prayer; Spring A PRAYER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, my father and my friend Last Line: Happy, though in the meanest cot. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Prayer; Spring A PRAYER FOR SPRING, by MARGARET ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: I want to know the joy once more Last Line: So god—let me see one more spring. Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight A PRAYER IN SPRING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today Last Line: But which it only needs that we fulfil. Subject(s): Spring A PURITAN IN EXILE CONFRONTS A SPRING DAY (HONOLULU), by RUTH ELEANOR MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Spring comes a heedless wanton to this town Last Line: Spring wears the blossoms of an apple tree. Subject(s): Spring A REMEMBRANCE OF GRASMERE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O vale and lake, within your mountain-urn Last Line: Smiles that subdue the soul to love, and tears, and prayer! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Spring A ROSE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I send to thee this fair and fragrant rose Last Line: And seek the sunbeam through the wintry snows. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring A RUSSIAN SPRING SONG WITH MINAIEV, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: She softly droops her maiden eyes Last Line: For him, sweet blossomings and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Spring A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 29. THE LENT LILY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spring; come out to ramble Last Line: That dies on easter day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Spring; The Resurrection A SIGN OF SPRING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking in mid march Last Line: Early spring's already here! Subject(s): Hepatica; Spring A SINGER OF THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is waving of grass in the breeze Last Line: And the combat I sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Singing & Singers; Spring; Destiny A SONG FOR ROSETIME, by SNOW LONGLEY HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Rosetime, rosetime, rosetime in gardens Last Line: Roses bloom eternally, death's hand is stayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow Longley Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring A SONG IN SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bees that rifle the mango blossom Last Line: Their lips have tasted the purple sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Spring A SONG OF SPRING, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In april's dim and showery nights Last Line: With the sweet promise of the year. Subject(s): Spring A SONG OF SUCCESS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We were strong, we were swift, we were brave Last Line: Life in the springtide, and love in the flowers. Subject(s): Love; Spring A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not the cause, why sullen spring Last Line: To be the victim for mankind. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Young Lady Subject(s): Flora (goddess); Flowers; Love; Spring; Women; Chloris (goddess) A SPRING CAROL, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe friend! Blithe throstle! Is it thou Last Line: And all that lives and loves subside to songless sleep. Subject(s): Spring A SPRING DAY, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: Neath the shady forest clusters Last Line: Of mays that once were mine! Subject(s): Nature; Spring A SPRING IDYLL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On my hangings of arras Last Line: Of saffron and ermine I rise. Subject(s): Nature; Spring A SPRING LAMENT, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: The spring is come; warm breezes blow Last Line: The spring is come. Subject(s): Lament; Spring A SPRING PRELUDE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tardy april, is thy full choir here? Last Line: My songs and thine but preludes till she come. Subject(s): Spring A SPRING SONG, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it wrong for the trush to sing? Subject(s): Spring A SPRING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Lent is come with love to town Last Line: "but will, outlawed, stray!" Subject(s): Spring A SPRING SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark sod pierced by flames of flowers Last Line: Resurrection, bridal spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring A SPRING SONG, by SARAH E. SIMONS Poem Text First Line: The wind-swept trees Last Line: For I know that spring is here! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring; Trees A SPRING SONG AND A LATER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sang a song of may for me Last Line: As dim as autumn rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring A SPRING SYMPHONY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The touch of the springtime has broken the ice of the pond Last Line: Ere the dream is done Subject(s): Spring; Symphonies; Concerts A SPRING THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring I have leaned me full close to the bark of a tree Last Line: In the secrets the bird and the rose and the tree have confessed. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs A SPRINGTIME PILGRIMAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feet on the hills and heads in the sky Last Line: Here in the hollow of tarrytown. Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Spring A SPRINGTIME WISH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to be a robin Last Line: Through the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Spring A STEIN SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give a rouse, then, in the maytime Last Line: With a stein on the table in the fellowship of spring. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Spring; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse A THOUGHT AT SUNSET, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still that last look is solemn! Through thy rays Last Line: Heirs of a purer day, with its unsetting star. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring A THOUGHT OF THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My earliest memories to thy shores are bound Last Line: "to that sole changeless world, where ""there is no more sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean A TIME-WORN TUNE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezes sweep like fairy brooms Last Line: The joy of living! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Spring A TRAGEDY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: O king darius! Well I knew Last Line: One whom I glorify. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Nature; Spring; Tragedy A TREE, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: A lullaby mother at evening Last Line: In a cold, cold clime. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Trees A VERNAL HYMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fresh spring burgeons into bloom Last Line: The skirts of immortality! Subject(s): Spring A VERNAL THOUGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O festal spring! 'midst thy victorious glow Last Line: As here thy flowers and birds press on to bloom and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring A VILLANELLE OF SPRING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, crimson forges of the east! Last Line: The world from thee new life has leased. Subject(s): Spring A VISION OF SPRING (LATE WINTER, 1915), by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, at the sound of winter thunder Last Line: Out of opening heavens the dove descending. Subject(s): Spring A VISION OF SPRING IN WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tender time that love thinks long to see Last Line: Give back, and half my april back to me. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Vision; Winter A WEDDING SONNET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad autumn, drop thy weedy crown forlorn Last Line: And breathes round him the spring-time of his song! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Spring; Wedding Song; Fall; Epithalamium A WHIMSY, by EDNA W. PIKERINE Poem Text First Line: In the fall when woods resound Last Line: And hear its new-born cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ABANDON, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: I am wicked-wicked-wicked Last Line: In the spring! Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love; Spring; Desertion ABISHAG, by JACOB FICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I waste my teeming age. I do not know Last Line: All of my warmth I give to the old king %his heart plays th e weeping of my spring Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Spring; Women In The Bible ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 156, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis easier to believe than disbelieve! Last Line: Lights with the lily, reddens with the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Spring; Theology AD ASTRA: 5, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O hallow'd love! Whose fruits were ever tears Last Line: Because their beauty is but for a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Spring ADMIRING SPRING, by CHU SHU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Driving wind and fine rain make for a chill spring Last Line: Hard to catch a glimpse of him Subject(s): Spring ADMONITION FOR SPRING, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look away now from the high lonesome hills Last Line: The heavy hyacinth remembering death. Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A. Subject(s): Hyacinths; Spring ADVENT, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: Last night / the shrill-voiced hounds of march Last Line: Walk with tomorrow. Subject(s): Spring; Winter AFTER DARK VAPOURS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Spring AFTERGLOW, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray that time full many years may bring Last Line: And I the long decembers count by half. Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Spring; Time; Youth; Songs AFTERMATH, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the fields where thou hadst mown in summertide Last Line: If her feet have hallowed for an aftermath? Subject(s): Catholics; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise AFTERNOON STROLL, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Belled and querulous with song Last Line: Like the first sky on man's first walk Subject(s): Spring AGAIN, by HARRY R. TRUSLER Poem Text First Line: Again spring sets the green-voiced forest singing Last Line: White eggs of dream to hatch within my breast. Subject(s): Robins; Spring ALCOVE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible that spring could be Subject(s): Spring ALIEN, by JEANNE OLDFIELD POTTER Poem Text First Line: Pink and white and purple blooms, heliotrope and scarlet Last Line: The memory of other springs, mirage of one to be! Subject(s): Spring ALISOUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "march is yielding to april, / leaf and flower afresh they spring" Last Line: "from other maids to turn aside, and light on alisoun!" Subject(s): Spring ALONE IN SPRING, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never met the spring alone before Last Line: One should be dead -- or suddenly grown old. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness ALYSOUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bytuene mersh and averil, / when spray beginneth to springe" Last Line: "from alle wymmen mi love is lent, / and lyht on alysoun" Variant Title(s): Alison Subject(s): Spring AMORETTI: 4, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, forth looking out of janus' gate Last Line: Prepare your selfe new love to entertaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Winter; Spring; Youth; Old Age; Life; Death AN ADIEU, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Sorrow, quit me for a while! Last Line: I shall not forget thee! Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness AN APRIL DAY, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: In from the blue a galaxy of sound Last Line: God minds us all upon an april day. Subject(s): April; Birds; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AN APRIL DAY, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: An april day and summer in the air Last Line: For april leads the summer back again. Subject(s): April; Happiness; Pleasure; Spring; Joy; Delight AN APRIL GHOST, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the ghosts I ever knew Last Line: You are left, you only. Subject(s): Ghosts; Spring; Supernatural AN APRIL PASTORAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither away, fair neat-herdess? Last Line: He. I go ... To tend thy kine for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Spring AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 1. PREMONITION, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where does the wind from the wilding blow Last Line: Can april wonder be far behind? Subject(s): Memory; Spring AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 2. TIDING, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the tides of april Last Line: And white, and fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Spring; Tides; Ocean AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 4. APRIL FLAME, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the foaming air Last Line: White wisdom now! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Spring AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 5., by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why grieve to see the light in air Last Line: Arise, and shout with may! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring AN APRIL SONG, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the world and through the world Last Line: This life's heavenly fellowship! Subject(s): April; Friendship; Love; Spring AN END, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go away from me -- do! I am tired Last Line: In the nest of the old, and a ghost on the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; May (month); Spring AN EPISTLE, by MARY MOLLINEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is friends fled, or love grown cold? Last Line: The same effects, dear friend, in thee. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Spring AN ODE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nights were short, and daies were long Last Line: I hyed me home my sheep to folde. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Spring; Tears AN ODE OF DEDICATION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would have thought a month of spring Last Line: Lead on! We come. Subject(s): April; Spring AN ODE TO MR. FORBES, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now gowans sprout and lavrocks sing Last Line: Enjoy it a', ye've nae mair for't. Subject(s): Spring AN OFFERING, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Velvet cowslips, tawny hue Last Line: For you, these glowing flowers, my friend. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring AN OLD MAN'S MEMORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The delights of our childhood is Last Line: And the joy of the swet of his brow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Past; Spring; Youth AN OLD SONG, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the winds are mellow in the glad spring-time Last Line: When all the world was merry in the month of may! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Spring AN ORCHID, by ROUTLEDGE CURRY Poem Text First Line: The old mahogany fireplace Last Line: To a point. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Orchids; Spring AND AFTER ALL, by HALLE W. WARLOW Poem Text First Line: As, after frost, men rake the darkening mold Last Line: Spring knew the lips of april -- love once spoke! Subject(s): Letters; Spring AND MAUN I STILL ON MENIE DOAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again rejoicing nature sees Last Line: When nature all is sad like me! Subject(s): Nature; Spring AND SPRING AGAIN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a gray, a gray-green wood Last Line: He trembled, and shrank sighing. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring AND SUDDENLY SPRING, by MARGARET HILLERT Poem Source First Line: The winds of march were sleeping Last Line: They bumped right into april, %splashing sprintime in my eye Subject(s): Spring AND THORNS, BUT DID THE SCULPTOR SPARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the bygone tempestuous birth Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Spring; Memory ANGELS OF THE SPRING, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see them not - we cannot hear Last Line: Is meet, my love, for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Variant Title(s): Are They Not All Ministering Spirits Subject(s): Angels; Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lambs were come, who could be slow and sere? Last Line: That now, this soon-come spring, goes slow and sere. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English ANOTHER SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the breadboard Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature; Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gold mouth of a flower Subject(s): Spring; Death; Dead, The ANOTHER SPRING, by POLLY MCKIBBEN Poem Text First Line: The day arrives when suddenly you catch Last Line: While life renews itself -- there is no death! Subject(s): Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seasons revolve and the years change Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seasons revolve and the years change Last Line: Slide unconsciously by us like water Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might see another spring Last Line: Be glad to-day and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove Last Line: "I love my love, and my love loves me!" Variant Title(s): What The Birds Say;birds;the Language Of Birds Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring ANXIETY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sat on the edge of her nest Subject(s): Nature; Spring APPLE BLOSSOMS, by IVAN ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms! / sweetly blowing all around Last Line: Flickering with their elfish whims. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring APPLE BLOSSOMS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Spring APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods APPLE BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The orchard trees are white Subject(s): Apple Trees; Nature; Spring; Trees APPROACH OF SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the omens of approaching spring Last Line: But still hope's smiles unpoint the thorns of care, %since heaven's eternal spring is free for all Subject(s): Spring APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lyric tremor and lift Last Line: Is deep with love and wise with ancient good. Subject(s): April; Earth; Love; Spring; World APRIL, by ELIZABETH DAVIES DUTCHER Poem Text First Line: I never saw an april quite like this Last Line: Brings cheer and happiness to me. Subject(s): April; Spring APRIL, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll take my fill of april Last Line: Across the heart of spring. Subject(s): April; Spring APRIL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: To normal seeing, a cloud that is also known Last Line: If time is one answer, if space has a will of its own Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring APRIL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The optimists among us Subject(s): Spring APRIL, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green o'er the copses spring's soft hues are spreading Last Line: Rejoice to bid a world like this adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Spring APRIL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful april! Sweet month of the spring! Last Line: First a smile, then a frown, and next a tear. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring APRIL, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roofs are shining from the rain Last Line: Save that it sings in me. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth APRIL, by VIDAME DES CHARTRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fields catch flower Last Line: And evil-speaking shall part. Alternate Author Name(s): Guillaume De FerriÈre Subject(s): April; Love; Spring APRIL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the hillside! The april month is here Last Line: To reign there all the song-time, the child-time of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): April; Primroses; Spring APRIL - NORTH CAROLINA, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you not be in tryon Last Line: Now that the spring is here? Subject(s): North Carolina; Spring APRIL 5, 1974, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air was soft, the ground still cold. Subject(s): Winter; Spring APRIL AGAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April again, / the funeral month, heaping Last Line: Under my feet Subject(s): April; Farm Life; Spring APRIL AND MAY, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Spring APRIL AUBADE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Worship this world of watercolor mood Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring APRIL DUSK, WASSERGASS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weeks now I've been looking Last Line: Startling against the beginning green Subject(s): Pigs; Spring APRIL IN THE HILLS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the world is wide and fair Last Line: Till earth and I are one. Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature; Spring; World APRIL RAIN SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the rain kiss you Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; April; Spring; Negroes; American Blacks APRIL RAIN SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the rain kiss you Last Line: And I love the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; April; Spring APRIL SHOWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Patter, patter, let it pour Subject(s): Nature; Spring APRIL SONG, by MARIO AZZOPARDI Poem Source First Line: Spring breathes flowers over the mouths of beggars Subject(s): Spring APRIL SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willow, in your april gown Last Line: Love is near me! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When [or, now] daisies pied and violets blue Last Line: Unpleasing to a married ear! Variant Title(s): Spring;ver And Hiems;april Subject(s): Cuckolds; Spring; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy APRIL, THE MAGICIAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: April has a wand of gold Last Line: And all the world grows new! Subject(s): April; Spring ARBOR DAY, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: To plant a tree! How small the twig Last Line: I did not know that it would be %so vast a thing to plant a tree Subject(s): Arbor Day; Spring; Trees ARBUTUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It trailed on a sheltered hillside Subject(s): Nature; Spring ARBUTUS DAYS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days! Days! Arbutus days! Last Line: I feel the breath of may. Subject(s): Arbutus; Spring; Mayflowers ARCADY LOST, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery AS SNOW WAS MELTING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This rancor drowning me flows %in hope of her Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hope; Spring ASH HOLLOW: I., by R. F. MCEWEN Poem Source First Line: We didn't see outright. The springtime fell Last Line: Your heart. And with your eyes still, open wide Subject(s): Ash Trees; Family Life; Spring; Trees ASKING AFTER SPRING: AN OLD-STYLE POEM: 1, by CHU SHU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Spring is here, so let's stop talking about the love we had in days past Last Line: Or is it I who owe him a full spring, three months of it? Subject(s): Spring ASPECTS OF SPRING IN GREATER BOSTON, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Stirring porch pots up with green-fingered witchcraft Last Line: To dusty windshields, to the waking, music Variant Title(s): Outbreak Of Sprin Subject(s): Spring AT KATHERINE WALTON'S BLUFF ON THE ASHLEY, by KADRA MAYSI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it's april on the ashley, 'twixt the tangled cypress Last Line: Where a phantom pathway passes through the wild plum trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Simons, Katherine Drayton Mayrant Subject(s): Spring AT MOMENTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In early spring, she writes to her lover Last Line: As maoris did at moments of danger. Subject(s): Nature; New Zealand - Maoris; Spring AT THE EDGE OF THE BAY, by THOMAS CALDECOT CHUBB Poem Source First Line: What! After your six-month drowsing and indolent sleeping Subject(s): Spring AT THE MELTING OF THE SNOW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a sunny southern land Last Line: At the melting of the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Snow; Spring ATTRACTIONS OF THE EAST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What secret current of man's nature turns Last Line: Their hope, the fair lost birthright to regain! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Middle East; Spring; Near East; Levant AUBADE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When fair hyperion dons his night attire Last Line: As storms in june or blossom-boughs in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Spring AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings Last Line: Arise, arise! Variant Title(s): Song At Sunrise;song To Imogen Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Larks; Morning; Spring; Sunrise; Skylarks AUGURY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sweeter sight will ever charm the eye Last Line: Could steal one mothering wing for folly's bait? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; England; Landscape; Spring; English AUTUMN AND SPRING, by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI Poem Text First Line: Autumn is sister to the spring Last Line: Across the span of a white hour. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall AWAKE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winter so hard you think the shrubs may never rouse Last Line: And the tail washes up on your boot. Subject(s): Rebirth; Spring; Winter AYE WAUKIN' O!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O spring's a pleasant time Last Line: "sleep can I get nane, / for thinkin' o' my dearie" Subject(s): Desire;spring AZRAEL'S CALL, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: That, which seemed so far away Last Line: Then throws back his head, to take me in Subject(s): Business; Family Life; Spring; Telephones BABY SEED SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown brother, oh! Little brown brother Last Line: Little brown brother, good-bye. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Seeds; Socialism; Spring BALLADE OF A DEAD LADY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All old fair things are in their places Last Line: Ah! Where have they hidden those great eyes? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Nature; Spring; Youth; Dead, The BALLADE OF SPRYNGE-TYME, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Text First Line: Nowe cometh the soe gracious month of maye Last Line: For the faire boone this merrye month doth brynge. Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Spring BARN-RED IN SPRING, by RACHEL BARENBLAT Poem Source First Line: Small house, barn-red: where else Last Line: Outside new leaves, bright feathers, expand Subject(s): Barns; Spring BARREN SPRING, by VIVIAN STRATTON Poem Text First Line: Although the peach and cherry trees will bloom Last Line: Because, oh just because, you are not here. Subject(s): Spring BECAUSE IT IS SPRING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be glad because the year is young? Last Line: Since may no longer greets me with your eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Spring BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking forward to the spring Last Line: I, alas, perceived not when. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall BEGINNING OF SPRING - A STROLL WITH MY WIFE, by HSU CHUN-CH'IEN Poem Source First Line: Hairdo and ornaments all the latest fashion Last Line: Fill the cups with orchid blossom wine! %these are sights to make the spirit sing Subject(s): Spring BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BEL M'ES QUAN LO VENS M'ALENA, by ARNAUT DANIEL Poem Text First Line: Softly sighs the april air Last Line: I could nevermore go wrong. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring BELATED SPRING, by LOUIS MERTINS Poem Text First Line: The laboring woods hold back the storm Last Line: And tremble in the cold. Subject(s): Spring BETROTHED ANEW, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight fills the trembling air Last Line: I wove the blossoms of the spring. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring BIRD'S SONG IN SPRING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver birch is a dainty lady Last Line: I love him best of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Variant Title(s): Child's Song In Spring Subject(s): Socialism; Spring; Trees BIRDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When our two souls have left this mortal clay Last Line: Snow on my doorstep, printed by their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Spring BIRDS OF SPRING, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheerily, merrily, heralds of spring Last Line: Our hearts with delight. Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight BIRTH OF SPRING, by ALICE TAFT STROWD Poem Text First Line: Raging blasts of rain and sleet Last Line: Spring has come again on earth. Subject(s): Spring BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring born in heaven ere many a springtime flown Last Line: Gives thanks for all thou hast given past thanks of all on earth. Subject(s): Birthdays; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Spring BLACK APRIL, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could god have meant the spring to hurt us so Last Line: Just one black night of agony? Subject(s): April; Depression, Mental; Grief; Spring; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness BLOSSOM TO THE ROOTS, by SUTOKU IN Poem Source Last Line: Yet no man knows %where spring has gone Subject(s): Spring BLOSSOM-TIME, by ZERA E. SETTERSTROM Poem Text First Line: O blossom-time is on the hill Last Line: Till lo! The golden, ripened fruit! Subject(s): Spring BLOWING BUBBLES, by BEATRICE PAULA BYRNES Poem Text First Line: A breath of air / a delicate ball Last Line: Pastels of spring on a crystal hill. Subject(s): Spring BLUE KASHMIR, '74, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: L.A. Spring, our boulevard of flowering jaca Last Line: I begged off. Eyes, eyes, the color of the dogs', crosses Subject(s): Los Angeles; Spring BONIE BELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling spring comes in rejoicing Last Line: I adore my bonnie bell. Subject(s): Spring BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S METAPHOR ABOUT SPRING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The house will clear out and the sun will flood over Subject(s): African Americans - History; Spring; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) BREATHINGS OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wak'st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods Last Line: Yes, gentle spring! No sorrow dims thine air, breathed by our loved ones there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Women BROADCAST, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aha! Oho! Last Line: To spring's dear steps, so far, so slow! Subject(s): Spring BROOK, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh of the mountain! Lyre of bird and Last Line: Dwell in limpid fount! Subject(s): Brooks; Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring BROTHER ROBIN, by MAY M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Listen! In the april rain Subject(s): Nature; Spring BROWN TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now are the valleys brown 'twixt bluest hills Last Line: And they walking two and two, queens by their gowns. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Brown (color); Nature; Spring; Trees BU SUANZI: SPRING SORROW, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Light rain breeds spring sorrow Last Line: When spring is gone, the flowers will lose their ground Subject(s): Grief; Spring BUCOLIC COMEDY: EARLY SPRING, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wooden chalets of the cloud Last Line: Beginnings of first earthy things! Subject(s): Spring BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPRING, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When spring begins, the maids in flocks Last Line: Singing their cold, forlorn madrigals. Subject(s): Spring BUDDING-TIME TOO BRIEF, by EVALEEN STEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little buds, break not so fast! Last Line: Wait yet awhile! Subject(s): Spring BURNING LEAVES IN SPRING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When withered leaves are lost in flame Last Line: Eternal beauty, back to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Leaves; Spring BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs BY THE SOUTH CANADIAN, by JOSEPH FRANCIS PAXTON Poem Text First Line: Down near the river's sands Last Line: The promise of spring. Subject(s): Spring CALIFORNIA MADRIGAL ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh come, my beloved! From thy winter abode Last Line: In the spring that obtains but one month in the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Spring CALLING THE ROLL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: April calls, / through spring time halls Last Line: O the joy of spring! Subject(s): April; Spring CAMBRIDGE SONGS: LEVIS EXSURGIT ZEPHIRUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wind stirs lightly as the sun's Last Line: The leaf opening, the first bird call Subject(s): Spring CANCION OF SPRING, by PABLO PIFERRER Y FABREGAS Poem Source First Line: Here the springtime come again Last Line: Lost are mine - and hope is o'er! Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Seasons; Spring CANTILENA AND CRY OF ADIEU ON THE HILL OF THE MANOR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A last song? Flushing all the sky dawn like a rose-bud doth un Last Line: "the foremost poet of france if only I could find the time." Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Spring; Parting CAPERCAILLIE, AVE ATQUE VAILLIE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king Last Line: While chicks of strange flock chant, as they roll and rock, %kek kek kek, whoosh, kek kek kek, whoos Subject(s): Nashe, Thomas (1567-1601); Spring CARMINA: CATULLUS GREETS THE SEASON, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now spring unlocks Last Line: Oh sweet don't go. %back the same way go a new way Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Spring CAROL FOR MAY-DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fresh flowers Last Line: Thou merry month of may! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; May (month); Spring CARPE DIEM, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Today what is there in the air Last Line: And my whole soul shall bloom and bear to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love; Soul; Spring; Time CAT BURGLAR, by JEAN V. GIER Poem Source First Line: Beyond a Last Line: Forgive me %it's spring Subject(s): Flowers; Spring CAUGHT, by SARAH HAMMOND KELLY Poem Text First Line: I would be old and gray Last Line: Spring, I am here! Subject(s): Spring CELEBRATION OF SPRING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O list to this spring time's terrible jest! Last Line: Adonis! Adonis! Subject(s): Spring CERES, by NEIL TRACY Poem Text First Line: See how the world lies manacled and bound Last Line: Torn by the wind from the rich hem of spring. Subject(s): Demeter; Spring; Ceres CHAMPAK BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amber petals, ivory petals Last Line: To ravish the winds of spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Spring CHANG XIANG SI, by HUANG YUANJIE Poem Source First Line: Wind fills the tower Last Line: Spring flows on like a river, never to return Subject(s): Spring CHANGE, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enjoy the sweets of life's luxuriant may Last Line: Constant in this, will change all else %below! Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring CHANGE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: An hour ago the sky was closed with gray Last Line: Keeps adding joy to my unstinted bowl? Subject(s): Spring CHANGELINGS, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the orchard's fragrant way Last Line: The patient days have wrought the spell Subject(s): Nature; Spring CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In just - / spring - when the world is mud- Last Line: Wee Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Balloons; Language; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Spring; Words; Vocabulary CHANT OF THE SPRING RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Rain like the rustling of fine garments Last Line: "and this is life and its mystery!" Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain; Spring; Weather CHERRY TREES A-BLOOM, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the spring's elysian Last Line: Of the cherry trees a-bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit; Smells; Spring; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances CHINESE SPRING, by ELIZABETH HARCOURT Poem Text First Line: The moon of flowers is here Last Line: The moon of flowers is here! Subject(s): Moon; Spring CHUNG GUANG HO: ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Scented paths are soft to tread Last Line: New tunes come to be made Subject(s): Spring CINQUAIN TO SPRING, by DOROTHY BLADIN HILL Poem Text First Line: Yesterday, / my heart was bare Last Line: Softly stir. Subject(s): Spring CINQUAINS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evil / beware! Subject(s): Evil; Mothers; Spring CLEANING OUT THE SULLER IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time to clean the suller out Last Line: "it's pretty clean down suller." Subject(s): Cattle; Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLEARING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is going to clear!' said the thrush to the jay Last Line: "a meadow-lark sang ""it is going to clear!" Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood CLEARING AT DAWN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped Last Line: Blown by the wind slowly scatters away. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLOUD SHADOW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A breeze discovered my open book Last Line: For fear I would make her miss her place Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Spring COLD SPRING, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold spring: %the violet was flawed on the lawn Last Line: These particular glowing tributes %every evening now throughout the summer Subject(s): Spring COME ALONG, YOU SPRING, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come along, you spring! Come along, you / flow'rs! Last Line: When you git here, spring -- and I'll set some more! Subject(s): Spring COME SPRING, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: March came in like the overture to swan lake, went out Last Line: Even ten seconds to see, and the leaves' applause %rips the roof off Subject(s): Spring COME, LOVE, LET'S WALK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Spring COMING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On longer evenings Subject(s): Spring COMING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On longer evenings Last Line: And can understand nothing %but the unusual laughter, %and starts to be happy Subject(s): Spring COMING OF SPRING, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was far in january and all day the snow was Subject(s): Spring COMING OF SPRING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking of you Last Line: Don't delay, I await you with longing Subject(s): Spring COMING OF SPRING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spring season is approaching Last Line: That color all the pictures of the universe...? Subject(s): Love; Spring COMMENDS THE SPRING; A PARAPHRASE OF AN IDYLLIUM, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which season, myrson, does most pleasure bring Last Line: And all earth's products full perfection show. Subject(s): Spring COMMUNITY, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Burned into parchment, sung in a brook Last Line: For the virginal garland of spring. Subject(s): Brooks; Spring; Streams; Creeks COMPARISON, by MARY THOMASINE DOWNER Poem Text First Line: It's spring now! Last Line: And that one may have a heaven here below. Subject(s): Love; Spring COMPLETION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean CONGEALED DAYDREAM, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Spring, thrower of the summer spear, watches Last Line: A space where nothing will change, except the place Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Spring CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 7. YOU HAVE TO COME OVER SOON, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the pollinated air Last Line: The door amazed and quite alarmed Subject(s): Absence; Spring CONTRA MORTEM: THE THAW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rigidity nonlife the meaning neither of life Last Line: The water by drop by drop begins to fall Subject(s): Spring COONIE IN DE HOLLER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coonie in de holler hidin' hin' de logs, Last Line: Hyar dat distant thundah; guess dat spring am sprung. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Spring; Negroes; American Blacks CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying. Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence COUNTRY CHURCH (MANAFON), by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church stands, built from a river stone Last Line: With so smooth care, no friendly god has cautioned %the brimming tides of fescue for its sake Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Churches; Spring COURT JESTER'S LAST REPORT TO THE KING, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sire! My sire! Your castle's on fire Last Line: Your army has fled, there are bees in your bed %and your nose has come off ...... April fool! Subject(s): Spring COURTSHIP OF FLOWERS, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring buds are bursting Last Line: Are booming their bells. Subject(s): Bells; Flowers; Spring CRABAPPLE SPRING, by J. E. ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: The expert said the old crabapple tree Last Line: Its harvest bountiful, the year it died. Subject(s): Spring CROCUS, by WALTER CRANE Poem Source First Line: The golden crocus reaches up Last Line: To catch a sunbeam in her cup Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Spring CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in my solitude under the snow Subject(s): Nature; Spring CROWS CAW OUT LOUD, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI Poem Source Last Line: Springtime in krakow Subject(s): Poland; Spring CUCKOO SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Summer is I-cumen [or a-coming or y-comen] in Last Line: "sing cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now!" Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo Song Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos;nature;spring;summer CURRENT, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having once put his hand into the ground Last Line: A young man who has reached into the ground, %his hand held in the dark as by a hand Subject(s): Spring DA FLUTE EEN SPREENG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Dere was a time w'en I could shoot Last Line: I justa coulda keesed heem! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Flutes; Spring DA LEETLA BOY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Da spreeng ees com'; but oh, da joy Last Line: He no could wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Cold; Spring DAFFODIL GOLD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold of the daffodil, drawn Last Line: Touch thou my pulses with spring! Subject(s): Aging; Daffodils; Spring DAFFODILS, by ROBERT GARLAND Poem Text First Line: When I return from far away Last Line: A halo in the april sun. Subject(s): Daffodils; Spring DAFFODILS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daffodils %that come before the swallow dares Subject(s): Spring DAISES, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: On april nights, mild, soft and beautiful Last Line: Love too they comprehend-they have been flowers! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Love; Spring DAISY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The daisy is the meekest flower Subject(s): Nature; Spring DANDELION, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: He is a roguish little elf Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Weeds DAO LIANZI: SPRING PLAINT, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Verdant ad before Last Line: But a cuckoo cries on a branch, scattering spring away Subject(s): Spring DAVID AND BATHSHUA: A LULLABY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Darkness steals o'er hill and valley Last Line: For silence broods upon a world at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Rest; Silence; Spring DAVID AND BATHSHUA: SPRING SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How joyous the spring is! Last Line: The daffodil glade. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Woods DAWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By a bank as I lay Last Line: "come dryly, come dryly, come dawn, hey ho!" Subject(s): Spring DAWN IN SPRING, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: In the depth of silence Last Line: Where life will be retold. Subject(s): Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise DAY BEFORE SPRING, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a faltering crimson by the wall Last Line: As in a whirl of bloom, a shape goes by! Subject(s): Spring DAY DREAMS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What time is like the glad springtime Last Line: Of dreams for this fair world of flowers. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring DAYBREAK, by HAZEL MAY OYLER Poem Text First Line: All was dark, the city slumbered Last Line: Spring is on her way. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Spring; Sunrise DAYS TOO SHORT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When primroses are out in spring Last Line: For me, doth wear the veil of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Spring DE BLACKBIRD FETCH DE SPRING, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When de autumn leabes was twistin' Last Line: Kase my blackbird fetched de spring. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Blackbirds; Spring DE RERUM NATURA, LIBER PRIMUS: BOOK 1. LINES 176-209, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why only in the spring are roses borne Last Line: To all things, which distinguisheth their kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring DE SPRING-HOUSE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to de spring-house am whar I long to wandah Last Line: Down in de spring-house am good enuff fo' me. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Spring; Negroes; American Blacks DEATH IN SPRING, by LILIANA URSU Poem Source First Line: Just like me they try Last Line: Forever marooned on its nest - %a bird of ice Subject(s): Birds; Spring DECEMBER, by VIVA I. STARK Poem Text First Line: How beautiful are god's great trees in spring Last Line: That our december shall not be in vain. Subject(s): December; Spring DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when the new sun increased in hours Last Line: And orders [them] to flash more wantonly like his own star Subject(s): Spring DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings Last Line: Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): "description Of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only The Lover;spring;summer;summer Is Come;sonnet;summer Is Gone;morte 42: Sonetto (imitated From Petrarch);spring, But;""the Soote Season, That Bud And Blome Furth Bringes""; Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness DESIRE IN SPRING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the cradle songs the mothers sing Last Line: And silent changes colour up the hedge. Subject(s): Spring DICHTER-HERZ, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sand through which the waters of the spring Last Line: As they drink the water I have made clear for them. Subject(s): Seashore; Spring; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore DIE LIAN HUA, by LI CH'ING-CHAO Poem Source First Line: Long night's malaise, welcome thoughts few Last Line: Such a pity that spring -- like me -- must grow old Subject(s): Aging; Spring DIRECTIONS, by UEJIMA ONITSURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes, side-to-side Last Line: Spring flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Onitsura Subject(s): Spring DISTANT SOUND OF THE SEA AT EVENING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, rolling far up some green mountain-dale Last Line: Who girds tired nature with unslumbering might. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean DOUBLE ELEGY IN SPRING, by ROBIN BEHN Poem Source First Line: Glove will do. Or foxglove Last Line: Strewn, as you were, across %inconsolable silence Subject(s): Spring DOWN WEIGAND WAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: All winter long I've heard the song Last Line: Down weigand way. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring DUST ON SPRING STREET, by LOUIS GRUDIN Poem Source First Line: The floor boards have a sour breath Last Line: Fear not the man of hell, %and seize his fiery hand Subject(s): Spring Street, New York City EAGER SPRING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whirl, snow, on the blackbird's chatter Last Line: To save for us one more spring. Subject(s): Spring EARLY MAY, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time that hints the coming leaf Last Line: By orchard bloom and lilac scent. Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What a royal pomp our meadows have assumed Last Line: Save in the cavern of life's afterglow. Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How sweet this morning air in spring Last Line: Sing sweeter songs than I may borrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: There is a faint, delicious sense Last Line: The summer of the heart. Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: What will be leafing, phosphorescent now, a fume Last Line: Superior sugar, and your laughter, which dispersed it Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye so early Last Line: Was I with my dear! Subject(s): Life; Muses; Spring EARLY SPRING, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the young buds are tipped with a falling sun Last Line: And pain like a cat will come home to share your room Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING, by DOROTHY KINSEY SHISLER Poem Text First Line: More like autumn this day seems Last Line: Of hospitable spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Sun; Fall EARLY SPRING, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the heavenly power Last Line: The poets too. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING AT THE WOODS' EDGE, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In naked trees about me jackdaws shriek Last Line: And from the fields the easter-psalms ring high. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Spring EARLY SPRING EAST OF TOWN, by YANG CHU-YUAN Poem Source First Line: The best time for a poet is when spring is new Last Line: The whole town [or, everyone] will be out gawking at flowers Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets; Spring EARLY SPRING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's tune is up Last Line: When the sun runs high. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring; Vermont EARLY WILLOWS, by JAMES WREFORD WATSON Poem Text First Line: There is no bargain basement no Last Line: At last will credit you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James Subject(s): Nature; Spring EARTH POEMS: 3, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: I want two geraniums Last Line: For my own vegetables Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring; Vegetables EARTHLY MEDITATIONS: THE AFTERLIFE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, and the fist full crop of dandelions gone Last Line: The baby's breath is no longer a rose Subject(s): Spring EASTER BUNNY, SELS., by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was an egg that felt funny Last Line: There's a date I must keep,' %said the bunny, and hip-hopped away Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 1, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk about in driving snow Last Line: Within my heart has built her nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With thousand gaps the earth is split Last Line: Will solace ever come to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness ECHOES OF SPRING: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft on the gleaming april days Last Line: Make honey of my flutt'ring thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 3, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes on my soul will throng Last Line: All the woodland's violets sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I sing of each sweet sight and sound Last Line: My heart is all too full, too full to speak or sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 5, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's some what in the loveliness of spring Last Line: On dim blue hills, and weep -- we know not why. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, birds, winged voices! Children of the light! Last Line: Ye, with the sunlight, range o'er land and main. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, soft sweet air of early spring Last Line: I'd like to lay me down and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness ECHOES OF SPRING: 8, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blooming hedge, the budding grove Last Line: Hast thou no language but a sigh? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECHOES OF SPRING: 9, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower fall of rain Last Line: Like to a low and sweetly dying lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring ECLOGUE FOR THE FINAL SEASON, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fear of common gods thaws like snow's Last Line: Goodbye to the sting of steam and moke, %that blossoming of burning snow Subject(s): Spring ECLOGUE: THE 'LOTMENTS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoo you be in your groun' then, I do zee Last Line: If I could get a little patch o' ground. Subject(s): Duty; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Property; Social Protest; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Possessions ECSTASY, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn Last Line: And I sang like a carven pipe of music. Subject(s): Asia; Nature; Spring; Far East; East Asia; Orient EIGHT YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears Last Line: To bring us flowers from eight full years. Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The garlands fade that spring so lately wove Last Line: Ah! Why has happiness -- no second spring? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Spring ELEGIAC SONNET: 8. TO SPRING, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the wood, and long-withdrawing vale Last Line: Have power to cure all sadness -- but despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Spring ELEGIAC SONNET: 87. WRITTEN IN OCTOBER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blasts of autumn as they scatter round Last Line: For never more to me the spring of hope returns! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Spring ELEGY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mother's garden even the ragweed Last Line: At everything we can still remember Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Old Age; Spring ELEGY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mother's garden even the ragweed Last Line: And us again, as astonished as we are %at everything we can still remember Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Old Age; Spring ELEGY WRITTEN IN SPRING, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past: the iron north has spent his rage Last Line: Till the long night is gone, and the last morn arise. Subject(s): Spring ELEGY: 5. ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, never wand'ring from his annual round Last Line: Too soon to night's encroaching, long control! Subject(s): Spring ELEGY: 5. ON THE COMING OF SPRING, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, revolving in perpetual gyre, now as the spring grows tepid Last Line: Let the shades fall later than their wont about our pole! Subject(s): Spring ELEGY: 5. ON THE COMING OF SPRING, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time that circles itself forever is now calling the fresh zephyrs Last Line: May it be late in each day before the shadows dim the sky Subject(s): Spring ELUSIVE SPRING, by VIRGINIA TIDBALL Poem Text First Line: I've watched the buds from day to day Last Line: To watch near the deodar for her. Subject(s): Spring END OF SPRING, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thatched cottage of several rooms Last Line: And I almost forgot where I am Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Spring END OF SPRING: ON MY NEWLY RENTED THATCHED COTTAGE AT RANG-XI III, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds brightly colored, now shadowed, now white Last Line: As river gibbons hum on the azure cliffs Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring END OF WINTER, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: March, thin pane between in Last Line: Disappearing down the avenue into the rain. Subject(s): March (month); Rain; Spring; Winter END OF WINTER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We welcome jack frost when he comes Last Line: Springtime's coming—run, jack, run! Subject(s): March (month); Seasons; Spring ETERNAL BEAUTY, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: Do not regret the passing on of spring Last Line: Against a leaden sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Spring EVENEN IN THE VILLAGE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the light o' the west is a-turn'd to gloom Last Line: Wi' his pipe an' his cider can. Subject(s): Evening; Spring; Sunset; Twilight EVERYBODY UP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam april woke one morning Last Line: Came around the corner! Subject(s): April; Spring EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, with his great eye Last Line: Lambs bleat my lullaby. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Spring FAIRY DANCES (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "round about, round about" Last Line: For our brave queen-a Subject(s): Spring FAIRY SONG, by ETHEL MAY ERICSON Poem Text First Line: Passing on a breeze, I swept Last Line: To lighten spring's returning. Subject(s): Spring FAITH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: If on this night of still, white cold Last Line: And immortality. Subject(s): Faith; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Belief; Creed FAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the thrush and blackbird sing Last Line: I must believe, I will believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Grief; Pain; Spring; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery FAITHFUL BLACKBIRD, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When the blackbird, in the new greenery, comes back Last Line: Goes crazy with love in the greenery! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FALSE SPRING, by POLLY MCKIBBEN Poem Text First Line: Ah, those deceptive springtime days in fall Last Line: A rhapsody of blossomtime again! Subject(s): Spring FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME THE SPRING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear Last Line: Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of peace. Subject(s): Spring FAREWELL TO SPRING, by LI YUYING Poem Source First Line: Lonely behind my brushwood door I sit locked away from the late spring Last Line: Why do you, wildflowers, choose to arouse me? Subject(s): Spring FEAR, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: Fear. Of you. Loving you Last Line: Of being, in you, your life? Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FEAST OF THE BIRDS, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The feast of the birds, it is air's history Last Line: Their flights suggest our hiddenness Subject(s): Spring FEBRUARY ROUND AND RED, by TODD BALAZIC Poem Source First Line: In a blue dumpster behind the homestead cafe Last Line: Over the vast, impassive earth Subject(s): Spring FEBRUARY THAW, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Now these ephemeral glaciers move Last Line: And occult ecstasies of sound. Subject(s): Spring FEBRUARY'S FORGOTTEN MITTS, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shep lies long-bodied upon the auburn grass Last Line: Spring has flung forward an unringed hand Subject(s): Spring FEURERZAUBER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love; Spring; Nature FIELD FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Spring FIELDS OF FLANDERS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last year the fields were all glad and gray Last Line: Lest all we owe them we should repay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; Spring; Women; World War I FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FINAL SPRING, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of grass, insurgent bud aware Last Line: This, and the threat of fear, and fear. Subject(s): Fear; Nature; Spring FIREFLIES, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source First Line: A thin mist %has flowered the tips of peach tree branches Last Line: With paper lanterns on our shoulders Subject(s): Absence; Fireflies; Flowers; Spring FIRST APPOINTMENT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Intoxication of spring! The plot of grass is whirling round the statue Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 1, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise Last Line: Is everlasting / resurrection Subject(s): Spring FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 1, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise Last Line: Is everlasting %resurrection Subject(s): Spring FIRST JULEP, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love the lazy southern spring Last Line: To let the juleps disappear %and stick my nose into the mint Subject(s): Mint Juleps; Spring FIRST NIGHT OF SPRING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each screaming mouth coming out toothless, bloody Last Line: Something is scratching, deeply involved in a struggle Subject(s): Spring FIRST SNOWDROP, by JULIA M. DANA Poem Source First Line: I want to get up,' the snowdrop said Subject(s): Nature; Spring FIRST SPRING; INDIAN CREEK, PENNSYLVANIA, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow violets know it up the rills Last Line: And though desirous, I have no desire. Subject(s): Desire; Spring FISH FOR BREAKFAST, by HENRY T. CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: In utah becky's place Last Line: "spring is an old man's friend." Subject(s): Spring; Youth FIVE WHITE BIRDS, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: Having seared the sky, the sun-a brazier Last Line: A gesture's meaning as the shaken air resounds Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring; Wings FLERIDA AND DON DUARDOS, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month of april Last Line: Against the might of death and love %in vain is all assay Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Flowers; Love; Spring FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain / mesquite Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire! Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FLORA IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The goddess slept. About her where she lay Last Line: And christmas-roses made a veil above her. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; January; Spring FLOWER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: We are the people. Rose and wound Last Line: Flower. Make spring thick for me, too Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLOWER BED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Baby, what do the blossoms say Subject(s): Nature; Spring FLOWER DANCES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In may the valley lilies rise Subject(s): Nature; Spring FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING, BEAUTIFUL, BOUNTIFUL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Feels new life with an ecstasy Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Spring; Children FLOWERS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my flowers! On your bosom Last Line: Spring! My lovely spring, come soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buds and bells! Sweet april pleasures Last Line: Hears the little children too! Subject(s): Flowers; Praise; Spring FLOWERS TELL MONTHS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold buttons in the garden today Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLYING DOGS, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: In early spring color pokes its chilly nose through the earth Last Line: & the horizon vibrate like a violin string Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Spring FOLIAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth, and let us through our hearts receive Last Line: Dear friend! Our fresh delight in simplest nature's hues! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Leaves; Spring FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 6. SPRING DELAYED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you tarry so long, spring? Last Line: The breath and the raiment of god! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Spring; Winter FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 7. SPRING ARRIVED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will carol all the day Last Line: Goes the pageant in a trice. Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs FOR AITANA, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: Aitana, my child, springtime bows Last Line: The air, dear child aitana, aitana, my child Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring FOR FUTURE SOWING, by BLANCHE LEA WALDEN Poem Text First Line: The cruel hand of frost has laid a blight Last Line: For well we know will come another spring! Subject(s): Spring FOR MUSIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singer, canst thou summon up Last Line: So long ago? -- then sing! Subject(s): Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Spring; Scientists FOR OLD LOVERS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The sap is bubbling in the tree Last Line: Of a wood fire at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring FOR ONE WHO LOVED SPRING, by BERYL V. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Softly spring treads...In velvet silence slips Last Line: Crocuses call. Subject(s): Spring FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano FOREIGN SPRING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The charlock and the hemlock flowers Last Line: I pause awhile and sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Spring FOREST TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Children, have you seen the budding Subject(s): Nature; Spring FORSYTHIA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Sun at the window and the blaze Last Line: And life was greatly coming on. Subject(s): Life; Spring FORSYTHIA BUSH, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: There is nothing %quite Last Line: Explodes %into yellow %and %startles the street %into spring Subject(s): Spring FOUR LITTLE FOXES, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak gently, spring, and make no sudden sound Last Line: Step softly. Subject(s): Foxes; Spring FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 2. SPRING IN TUSCANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-red lilies that bloom on the banner Last Line: Fare well we may not who say farewell. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring FRANCES REFUSES TO SET BACK HER CLOCK, by HELEN WALLACE Poem Source First Line: She knows it's time. Time to wind the hands Last Line: Breeze, that drops the swollen hours, %plump, urgent with seed Subject(s): Clocks; Spring; Time FROM A MOTOR IN MAY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of autumn and the buds of spring Last Line: The leaves of autumn guard the buds of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; May (month); Nature; Order; Seasons; Spring; Fall FULL MOON OF SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On pale velvet, set with gems Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Moon; Spring; Stars GAME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thursday nights in spring Last Line: And the unmowed field is foaming at the mouth with flowers Subject(s): Games; Spring; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements GAME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thursday nights in spring Last Line: And the unmowed field is foaming at the mouth with flowers Subject(s): Games; Spring GAPS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the gaps %between the apartments Last Line: Where new things %always begin Subject(s): Flowers; Rebirth; Spring GAY SPRING RETURNS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Gay spring returns, her glad face glowing Last Line: Gay spring returns, her glad face glowing. Subject(s): Nature; Spring GLORIA MUNDI, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give us the earth's whole heart but once to know Last Line: Evasive echoes of a distant feast. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Spring GO AWAY SPRING!, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, how can you conceive beauty Last Line: This is no fit birthplace for beauty! Subject(s): Spring GOD HATH MADE ALL THINGS LOVELY, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: The beauty of god's world is ever new Last Line: God hath made all things lovely in their time. Subject(s): Nature; Spring GOD'S FATHER CARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is no birdling in the nest the breeze rocks in the tree Subject(s): Nature; Spring GOD'S WEATHER: APRIL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The shadows fall soft down the haw-whitened hillside Last Line: The wooing soft south of his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Orchards; Seasons; Spring GOD'S WEATHER: MARCH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A wild whir of wings thro' the woodland's browns hieing Last Line: Blow on thro' the woods and the weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Harvest; Months; Spring; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: MAY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying Last Line: With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of god's weather. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Months; Old Age; Spring GOLD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When life wakened in the spring Last Line: To brown pavements in the town. Subject(s): Spring GOLDEN CASSIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brilliant blossoms that strew my way Last Line: The glimmering ghosts of a bygone dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring GOLDEN HOUR, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one enchanted minute Last Line: To-morrow looms a golden sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gold; Seasons; Spring GOOD, USABLE, CLEAN CLOTHES, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: On this may day Last Line: And the crooked trees Subject(s): Spring GOSSIP, by JEAN LOUISE LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: The yellow-green of little trees Last Line: Then summer's only talk. Subject(s): Spring; Trees GRANDMOTHER POEM #5: GOING TO THE PROM, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: In the spring of '43 you went Last Line: The day before your birthday on dec. 16 %daddy died Subject(s): Death; Parties; Proms; Spring GRAY APRIL, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Is it april, these gray days Last Line: April! April! Is this you? Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): April; Rain; Spring GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rainbows, rainbows! O fantastic vision Last Line: Or is it the snows again? Subject(s): Greece; Hope; Rainbows; Spring; Winter; Greeks; Optimism GREEN, by NEIL SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: Last night I heard it again: ice Last Line: Assess the mildewed things %green beyond saving Subject(s): Ice; Spring GREEN JADE PLUM TREES IN SPRING, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring comes early to the gardens Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Spring GREETING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sweet as the summer breeze Last Line: Is the love I bear to thee. Subject(s): February; Flowers; Greetings; Love; Spring GRIEVING OVER THE SPRING, by ZOU SAIZHEN Poem Source First Line: Who cherishes longing and dwells on pain? Last Line: But the one who is gone and has not yet returned Subject(s): Spring GROUND LAUREL, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, pretty nursling Subject(s): Nature; Spring GROWTH, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL Poem Text First Line: April weeps ... And weeps ... And weeps Last Line: Poor april's tears, essential to good sowing . . . Subject(s): Spring GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To field and forest Last Line: The rapture of song! Subject(s): Brides; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Spring; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HAD SPRING NOT COME, by ANNA FRENCH JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Again old earth swings Last Line: My heart would have slept. Subject(s): Revivals; Spring; Religious Revivals HAILSTORM IN MAY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail Last Line: Bid joy back, have at the harvest, keep hope pale. Subject(s): Spring; Storms HAIRST, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' weel I lo'e the budding spring, I'll no misca' john frost Last Line: Wi' saft and winnowing win's to cool the gloaming o' the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Spring HARD SEASON, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already this spring the lilacs are failing / in pieces and chunks, the way rust Last Line: With the presence, in the sunlight Subject(s): Spring HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mood of mind we all have known Last Line: Than ennui's yawning smile what time she drops it down Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees HARVEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring hath the morning gladness Last Line: With the peace of god is blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Harvest; Mothers; Spring; Childhood HAWTHORN DYKE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the golden air is full of balm and bloom Last Line: Here are one at heart with all things seen and heard. Subject(s): Flowers; Hawthorn; Spring HEALING, by BESS HEATH OLMSTEAD Poem Text First Line: I thought I could not bear another spring Last Line: Forget-me-nots may gather, and heart's-ease. Subject(s): Flowers; Healing; Spring; Cures HEART'S AGONY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the spring %I see Last Line: To %bare myself and bloom Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Spring HEBE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the twinkle of white feet Last Line: To pour for thee the cup of honor. Subject(s): Hebe (goddess Of Youth And Spring) HELLENICA: 1, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight hath veiled his eyes Last Line: Where I met philemon dreaming. Subject(s): Spring HEPATICA, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When april's in her genial mood Last Line: Are greetings from the heart of spring. Subject(s): Birds; Spring HEPATICAS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: They are like sky children Last Line: "at this miracle of spring!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hepatica; Plants; Spring; Joy; Delight; Planting; Planters HER BEAUTIFUL EYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O her beautiful eyes! They are as blue as the dew Last Line: So I grope through the night of her beautiful eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Love; Spring HER SMILE OF CHEER AND VOICE OF SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring fails, in all its bravery of Last Line: Reclaims those gifts of hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Smiles; Spring HERE WE COME A-PIPING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And bells beyond the sand Subject(s): Spring HERESY FOR A CLASSROOM, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green willows are for girls to study under Subject(s): Spring; Trees HESITATION, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring lingers-out its arrival in these woods Last Line: Or the pallor of hoar-frost whitening its last? Subject(s): Spring HIDDEN SPRING, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Within the shadowy bowl of mossy valleys Last Line: And hence with noiseless footstep let me go! Subject(s): Spring HINTS OF SPRING (COMPOSED IN SICKNESS), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A softening of the misty heaven Last Line: Albeit thou art so near, so near! Subject(s): Spring HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Last Line: Busy all night long tonight Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HOOSIER SPRING-POETRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ever'thing's a-goin' like she's got-a-goin' now Last Line: Oh, ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring; Trees HOPE AND FAITH, by ISAAC LEIBUSH PERETZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope! Not distant is the springtime Last Line: Will arise above our graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Perets, Yitskhok Leibush; Peretz, Isaac Loeb Subject(s): Jews; Life; Spring; Judaism HORSES IN SPRING, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: Beware too much happiness! Last Line: And didn't like it, too cold, too soft, too unpredictable Subject(s): Animals; Happiness; Horses; Spring HOW ABUNDANT IS THE SPRING, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: How green are the oleander trees Last Line: In a black night, from my cold desert bed Subject(s): Oleanders; Spring HOW IT HAPPENS, by MARGARET HILLERT Poem Source First Line: The wink of a pink and shining eye Last Line: The easter basket beside the door %and easter gladness again Subject(s): Spring HOW MANY HEAVENS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emeralds are singing on the grasses Subject(s): Spring HOW MANY HEAVENS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emeralds are singing on the grasses Subject(s): Spring HOW SPRING CAME TO NEW YORK, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the windy dusk, and the first pale light Last Line: "the millions woke, tingling, and whispered, ""spring!" Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOW THE WIND BLOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High and low Subject(s): Nature; Spring HUAN XI SHA: SPRING BOUDOIR, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Incense from the iron circles the painted curtain Last Line: One needs no spring illness to be weary Subject(s): Spring HURRAY FOR SPRING MUD, by JUDITH KINTER Poem Source First Line: My sisters pick buttercups bursting with spring Last Line: Let others go wild about bird, bee, and bud; %just give me my swishable, dquishable mud! Subject(s): Spring HYMN 9, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A breath of roses in the wind doth seize on me Last Line: God.—my heart is at ease! Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Roses; Soul; Spring HYMN: SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil Last Line: But we in nature's latest hour, o lord! Will cling to thee. Subject(s): God; Spring I DO NOT FEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to own me kin Last Line: Alone of all things have the power. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring I GO, SWEET FRIENDS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go, sweet friends! Yet think of me Last Line: Think of me then! I go, I go! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love; Spring I HAVE SEEN THE SPRING', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is new, I have seen the spring too often Last Line: Nothing is lost but a few years from my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring I SHALL PLAY A LITTLE SONG ON MY PIPE IN THE SPRING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Who do not know what spring is for, as we know, pipe and I Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Spring I THINK, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will write you a letter Subject(s): Spring I THINK, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will write you a letter Last Line: Stick around %a while Subject(s): Spring I WAS WALKING I WAS PONDERING THE VIGIL OF SPRING UNDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: The rose of my dibs the march rose which is she existed would have cold-numbed fingers Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring I WILL BE WALING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Seeds were %under %the %winter %snows Subject(s): Spring IDAHO SPRING, by MILDRED HOLMAN MELTON Poem Text First Line: Sagebrush heavy in the spring Last Line: Aye, spring is here! Subject(s): Spring IDYLL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Each time that eve and adam meet, he builds Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Smoking; Soul; Spring; Eve; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IF A WILDERNESS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Then spring came: Subject(s): Spring IF ICE, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If / ice shall melt Last Line: Forest-bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Ice; Spring IMAGE, by ALICE H. MERTZ Poem Text First Line: The buttonwoods stand like shriven penitents Last Line: And healing green will shroud and over and beautify. Subject(s): Night; Spring; Bedtime IMAGES OF PATRIARCHAL LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm scenes of patriarch life! Last Line: The voices, earliest by the soul revered! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring IMMORTAL JOY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all our roses huddle out of sight Last Line: Shall gently fall upon its sleeping face. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Immortality; Roses; Spring; Joy; Delight IMPRINT OF FERNS, CRISSCROSSED WITH BRANCHES AND TWIGS, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has arrived. It's returned again Last Line: As amber does the ferns with crisscrossed branches and twigs Subject(s): Forests; Poetry And Poets; Spring; Trees IMPROMPTU ON A SPRING DAY, by XIE WUNIANG Poem Source First Line: Nesting swallows gather mud in the long spring day Last Line: Chase each other in the east wind over the white wall Subject(s): Spring IMPULSE, by DOROTHY MOORE GARRISON Poem Text First Line: I know that deep beneath the weary gray Last Line: Seeking lost eldorados on the slopes. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Spring IN A COUNTRY CHURCH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one kneeling down no word came Last Line: Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree %golden with fruit of a man's body Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Churches; Spring IN A FIELD OF GOLDENROD, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Around me-gold! Last Line: With joy's rich ecstacy. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goldenrod; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight IN A GREENHOUSE, by FLORA T. MERCER Poem Text First Line: Long rows of dull white boxes filled with / loam Last Line: To all the beauty of infinity. Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters IN A MONSOON SPRING, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Here, wind shreds petals, rain Last Line: Wash books away, rain %ruins chrysanthemums Subject(s): Books; Monsoons; Spring IN A SPRING GROVE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the white-ray'd anemone is born Last Line: Each and all these,—and more, and more than these! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Leaves; Spring; Thorns; Woods IN A TIME OF FLOWERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Do you know the spring is here Last Line: To welcome the new-born year? Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery IN APRIL, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the long twilight Subject(s): Spring IN AUTUMN, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see in autumn on the telegraph wires Last Line: Tries, falters and, before it flees, comes back. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Faith; Grief; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness IN BOHEMIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! My dear! I'm back again Last Line: Ere it drowns me, kate, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bohemians; Poetry & Poets; Spring; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN BOZEN OF A SUNDAY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In bozen of a sunday, the air is gay with chiming Last Line: In bozen of a sunday, when the hills are glad with spring. Subject(s): Bolzano-bozen Province, Italy; Sabbath; Spring; Sunday IN EARLY SPRING, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise Last Line: But he is lord of his. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Spring IN GREEN WAYS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the time has come to sing Last Line: You shall sing a song to me! Subject(s): Spring IN HAITI: 2. AT THE SPRING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy perched in the high Last Line: Thigh-deep in a limestone cliff. Variant Title(s): Haitian Suite Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Haiti; Spring; Youth IN HOSPITAL: 22. PASTORAL, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the spring Last Line: Impotent t, winter at heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Spring IN HOSPITAL: 26. ANTEROTICS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughs the happy april morn Last Line: O, the spring -- the spring -- the spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses; Spring IN LATE SPRING, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: I mark me how to-day the maples wear Last Line: And take thy purple of the tiring hours. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring IN MAY, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When grosbeaks show a damask rose Last Line: And all the world is glad with may. Subject(s): May (month); Spring IN MAY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends whom I kiss'd and caress'd of yore Last Line: O beauteous world, I hate thee anew! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Spring IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 115, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now fades the last long streak of snow Last Line: And buds and blossoms like the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): April;spring's Awakening;in Memoriam (6);now Fades The Last Long Streak Of Snow, Subject(s): Spring IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 83, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dip down upon the northern shore Last Line: And flood a fresher throat with song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): April Days;spring Subject(s): April; Spring IN MONMOUTH, by EVE GILBERT SWIFT Poem Text First Line: In monmouth, in monmouth Last Line: "cuckoo, cuckoo." Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring IN PRAISE OF GULMOHUR BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can rival your lovely hue Last Line: From a true wife's funeral pyre? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Spring IN PRAISE OF MAY, by FIONN MACCUMHAILL Poem Text First Line: May-day! Delightful day! Last Line: Delicate-hued, delightful may. Subject(s): May (month); Spring IN SHADOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreaded that first robin so, / but he is mastered now Last Line: Of their unthinking drums. Subject(s): Pain; Spring; Suffering; Misery IN SPRING, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young birds shy twitter Last Line: Oh bring me my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring IN SPRING, by AVA F. COLLINGWOOD Poem Text First Line: The time in school is twice as long Last Line: On every single sunny day? Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs IN SPRING, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the trees and the osiers lithe Last Line: For you and for me bloom never again. Subject(s): Spring IN SPRING, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know which is worse when you are away Last Line: I walk alone in ways that we went in together. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring IN SPRING, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The land is full of blossom, in the plain Last Line: Oh spring, in all your grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring IN SPRING, by MARGERY ATWOOD TODAHL Poem Text First Line: Under the sun Last Line: The things we know? Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Spring; Arthur, King IN SPRING, by J. A. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, the joy to ride o'er the hills with spring Last Line: Nor the trials of life forgetting. Subject(s): Hearts; Spring IN SPRING THE QUINCE, by IBYCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring the quince and the %pomegranate bloom Last Line: And he overwhelms my heart %with black frenzy and seasickness Alternate Author Name(s): Ibykos Subject(s): Spring IN SPRING, SANTA BARBARA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been happy two weeks together Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Togetherness IN SPRING-TIDE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour, the day Last Line: Blossoming-time is come -- rejoice, joice, rejoice! Subject(s): Spring IN SPRING-TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There's many a pool that holds a cloud Last Line: Is four and twenty hours of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Spring IN SPRINGTIME, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are green, the world is new Last Line: Sweet life, sweet love. Fate will be kind %some springtime Subject(s): Spring IN TERMS UNFAMILIAR, by ADAM DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: It has been thirty years %since fire bared and bent across the hillside Last Line: A crow in a nearby mountain ash %flicked a glance of coal Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Spring IN THE CROWD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy they are, in all seeming Last Line: T is better than showing the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; Smiles; Spring; World IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE GARDEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin looked from the path at the lank coil of garden hose Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Spring IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, by JENNIFER E. WHITTEN Poem Source First Line: I wake and spring is a red blossom Last Line: As though something can still be given Subject(s): Night; Spring IN THE ORCHARD, by HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunny orchard closes Last Line: Who may revel with the rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarme, Brynjolf Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Spring IN THE PRAISE OF SPRING, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All trees, all leavy groves confesse the spring Last Line: A sweetly temper'd meane, nor hot nor cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Spring IN THE SPRING, by IBYCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the season of spring is the season of growing Last Line: And shakes and shatters at will. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibykos Subject(s): Spring IN THE SPRING ABYSS, by PIERRE VOELIN Poem Source First Line: Alone Last Line: They tell the fable of solitudes %brightened by blood Subject(s): Spring IN THE WILLOW SHADE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beneath a willow tree Last Line: Beside a spring in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring INFERIAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, and the light and sound of things on earth Last Line: For all the darkness of the night and sea. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Spring INSIDE CHANCE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dance like a jackrabbit %in the dunegrass, dance Last Line: As the blood of the maple %that will open its leaves %like thousands of waving hands Subject(s): Spring INTIMATE VISION, by JOSEPHINE BATES Poem Text First Line: Shall we regret the lost and lovely spring Last Line: Until we watched together, hand in hand. Subject(s): Love; Spring INVITATION, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now spring appears, with beauty crown'd Last Line: And breathe the air of heaven, with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Spring INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'tis spring on wood and wold Last Line: And in the breast of man as well. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Seasons; Spring INVOCATION TO THE MUSES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Awake! Ye tuneful nine, and sing Last Line: Such lustre as their dewy eyne. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK?, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it half-past snowflake? %do we still have to wait? Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Spring IT IS NOT ENOUGH THAT THE BUDS HAVE COME OUT. IT IS NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tourists have begun to fill up the city like a box of arms and legs Subject(s): Spring IT WAS HERE--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was here. Right here Last Line: Silently, toward %what isn't Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Pleasure; Spring IT'S SPRING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And two cyclicals are riding Last Line: Happens nobody knows or cares %it's spring, funiculi funicula Subject(s): Spring IT'S TIME FOR SPRING, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: My sweater's tight and itchy Last Line: I have a kite that wants to fly. %so ... Winter, call it quits! Subject(s): Spring JOHN REED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mist on the meadow below Last Line: I'll go to the village-store; I'd rather not talk with jane. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Spring JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few Last Line: May work.' Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas JUNE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by Last Line: Will soon blow down the road all roses go. Subject(s): Spring KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat. Variant Title(s): To Britannia Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs KITE DAYS, by MARK SAWYER Poem Source First Line: A kite, a sky, and a good firm breeze Last Line: O boy, o boy! I call that spring! Subject(s): Kites; Spring KNOWLEDGE OF APRIL, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Whatever the delicate ear dissects tonight Last Line: Knowledge of april. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Spring; Parting L'ARRIVEE DU PRINTEMPS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je pense a toi mon coeur Last Line: T'attends avec impatience Subject(s): Spring LABYRINTH OF NARROW STREETS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Roses of your bushes...I want to see her Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Spring LANGTAO SHA: SPRING BOUDOIR, by YE XIAOLUAN Poem Source First Line: Translucent twilight, piercing chill Last Line: Belongs to the god of spring Subject(s): Spring LANGUID LEMON TREE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yes, I know you, bright happy afternoon %of almost spring Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Spring LAST NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where were you last night? I watched at the gate Last Line: As to miss the chance while we weigh and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hate; Love; Night; Spring; Bedtime LAST SNOW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although the snow still lingers Last Line: Stabbing a dead leaf from below %kills winter at a blow Subject(s): Spring LAST SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning at the door Last Line: Of hope and spring! Subject(s): Birth; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery LATE SNOW IN THE SMOKIES, by ELIZABETH JONES BROWNING Poem Text First Line: Spring, one night Last Line: That palmer knew, and corot could not miss. Subject(s): Smoky Mountains; Snow; Spring LATE SPRING, by SALLY WOOD RAUSHENBUSH Poem Text First Line: I have not seen the spring this year Last Line: Young spring lies dead. Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College LATE SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before he goes, the uguisu Subject(s): Spring LATE SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No man can ever learn Subject(s): Mankind; Spring LATE SPRING, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: Childheart, time alone is not enough Last Line: The roots shaken with water and dirt %torn from a long sleep Subject(s): Spring LATE SPRING, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Fallen petals on green moss like snowflakes Last Line: Butterflies flit over the wall with willow catkins Subject(s): Spring LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!" Variant Title(s): Laughing Song Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods LAUREL IN THE BERKSHIRES, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-foam / and coral! Last Line: Gold flood. Subject(s): Spring LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs LEAFLET, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silent rage scribbles on the wall inwards Last Line: And become milder and wilder than here Subject(s): Leaves; Spring LEAFLETS, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dance, little leaflets, dance Subject(s): Nature; Spring LEAVES FALLING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves falling in numbers speak of Last Line: As oracles there is something in the soil Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Green (color); Leaves; Spring; Trees LET IT BE SPRINGTIME, by NELLE LORAINE MILROY Poem Text First Line: If privilege were mine to name the time Last Line: Lull me to slumber while the day is young. Subject(s): Birds; Spring LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down. Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] LIFE'S MORNING, NOON, AND EVENING, by AUDRA POWELL COTTRILLE Poem Text First Line: Dawn breaks, soft breezes blow, 'tis morning time of life Last Line: Submerged in faith, then sink to rest in twilight's holy calm. Subject(s): Day; Life; Spring LINES TO SPRING, by LOU D. GREENLEE Poem Text First Line: Though drab and weary from late winter's reign Last Line: Her magic web, is serenading spring. Subject(s): Spring LITTLE BROWN BIRD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little brown bird in the rain Last Line: In the bend of your wing! Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wings LITTLE DOVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High on the top of an old pine-tree Subject(s): Nature; Spring LITTLE LAZY CLOUD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A pretty little cloud away up in the sky Subject(s): Nature; Spring LONDON STUDIES: AFTER THE STORM IN MARCH, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the wind sighs out of sight Last Line: Spring for to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): London; Spring LONG AFTER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring they fell in love but then Subject(s): Love; Spring LONG AFTER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That spring they fell in love but then Last Line: That spring they fell in love but then %fell down and out of it again Subject(s): Love; Spring LONGFELLOW, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea the swift sad message darts Last Line: Of aspiration human and divine. Subject(s): Death; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean LONGING, by BLANCHE KENDALL MCKEY Poem Text First Line: And it will bring you back Last Line: To hear his singing! Subject(s): Longing; Spring LONGING FOR SPRING, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, the winter has hurt us everywhere Last Line: Where the frost lies now, I'll pluck a nosegay. Subject(s): Spring LOVE IN OCTOBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers LOVE IN SPRING, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the violet blooms again Last Line: Far more excellent is she. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Spring LOVE MAKES THE SPRING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has spring come back? Is this the may Last Line: "spring has come back." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Spring LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is early this year Last Line: Moon, night smells like your body Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring LOVE'S AUTUMN, by JOHN PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, love, the spring shall come again Last Line: That now lie cold and sere. Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare. Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring LOVE'S GOLDEN PILGRIMAGE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To one who loves, all things are beautiful Last Line: Perceives in nature things unseen before. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring LOVE'S SPRINGTIDE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Henceforth my life shall ever know the spring Last Line: The hopes and joys that warm the nest of love. Subject(s): Spring LOVE'S WOUNDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the young stag, when lusty spring supreme Last Line: Planted a thousand arrows in my side. Subject(s): Love; Pride; Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Self-esteem; Self-respect LUCIFER, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The grackle comes Last Line: Still shoulder sun Subject(s): Spring LULLABY, by ELIZABETH CAVAZZA Poem Source First Line: Through sleepy-land doth a river flow Subject(s): Nature; Spring LYING SPYING, by LAURA RIDING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (lying spying what men say of dead men Last Line: Not a thing to tell each other. Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Spring LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies MADRIGAL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I inherited a dark wood where I seldom go. But a day will come when Last Line: Shift on the clothesline Subject(s): Spring MADRIGAL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I inherited a dark wood where I seldom go. But a day will come when Last Line: And am as empty-handed %as the shirt on the washing-line Subject(s): Spring MAGDALEN WALKS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The little white clouds are racing over the sky Last Line: The kingfisher flies like an arrow, and wounds the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Spring MAGIC, by JEANNE FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today the air quivered suddenly Last Line: With the proper shades of green. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring MAGIC, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ran into the sunset light Last Line: Adored the risen spring. Subject(s): Spring; Sun MAGIC PIPER, by E. L. MARSH Poem Source First Line: There piped a piper in the wood Subject(s): Spring MAGNOLIA, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year spring and summer decided Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Magnolias MAHOTA (THE VERDURE), by CHARLIE LINCOLN MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: Where emerald is made and flung Last Line: Muse-rapt, to shield our tryst-kept maid. Subject(s): Spring MALIGNANCY IN LATE MAY, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: The ground is too lush, too tumorous Last Line: Heat in the metastasized grass Subject(s): Nature; Spring MARCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A sodden gray in the chilly dawn Last Line: And this is march Subject(s): Cold;march (month);seasons;spring;winter MARCH, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A blue day Last Line: Spring's winning! Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring MARCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Gruff messenger of spring! Last Line: Beautifying hill and plain. Subject(s): March (month); Nature; Spring MARCH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I know that spring will come again Last Line: Saying that spring returns, perhaps tomorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Spring MARCH 9TH, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Yellow %dawn on the river Last Line: When it reaches the red bridge Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; March (month); Nature; Spring MARCH AND APRIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Stay in, stay in, o flowers, stay in Last Line: Come up, dear seeds, above the ground! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Spring; Childhood MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray Last Line: And april airs be here! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds MARCH FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now shrink not from me for shamefacedness Last Line: O sober fields of march, your mood is deep, divine! Subject(s): March (month); Spring; Wind MARCH MELODY, by MANUELA CROSNO Poem Text First Line: I shall stay home and build my fire, tonight Last Line: I shall build a refuge here -- for captive spring! Subject(s): Spring MARCH WIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I come to work as well as play Last Line: I blow the children round and round %and wake the flowers from sleep Subject(s): Spring MARJORIE'S ALMANAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robins in the tree-top Last Line: Pleasanter than all? Subject(s): Nature; Spring MARKET STREET, by DAVID NOVAK Poem Text First Line: And what if spring is here at last Last Line: Are lies. Subject(s): Spring MARRIAGE SONG, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Now in the savory may, my love, rest easy Last Line: The dazzled flesh enjoys and then adores Subject(s): Spring MATANZA TO WELCOME SPRING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread eagle sheep legs wide Subject(s): Spring; Sheep; Death; Birth; Dead, The; Child Birth; Midwifery MATINAL SURVEY OF THE CITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O justly made divine, unclose thy hands, sweet dawn, those fingers Last Line: Sweet to me, against white walls the sound of all these shutters blue! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Cities; Spring; Urban Life MATING TIME, by VIDA S. ADKINS Poem Text First Line: Past my window, brilliant crimson Last Line: In the honeysuckle vine. Subject(s): Birds; Spring MAY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hebe's here, may is here! Last Line: In the hearts of roses. Subject(s): Hebe (goddess Of Youth And Spring); May (month); Spring MAY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out o' door, 'tis spring! 'tis may! Last Line: Behine' for thee, o flow'ry maÿ! Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Spring MAY, by HELEN B. CURTIS Poem Source First Line: Starting, starting from the earth Subject(s): Nature; Spring MAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now children may Last Line: Look at some baseball / on tv Subject(s): Spring; Baseball MAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now children may Last Line: Look at some baseball %on tv Subject(s): Spring MAY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the merry may has pleasant hours Last Line: In the beautiful time of spring. Subject(s): May (month); Spring MAY AT THE WINDOW, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Now may is at the window Last Line: And laying its iron hand around your heart %--spring on earth Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; May (month); Spring MAY BASKETS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In other lands the children bring Last Line: And tell our way the joy of spring. Subject(s): Harvest; May (month); Spring MAY DAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haste, o haste to the fields away Last Line: And pour for us the simple lay! Subject(s): Flowers; May (month); Spring MAY EVENING, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of spring-time at this twilight hour Last Line: For the return of day. Subject(s): Spring MAY FLOWERS ARE OPENING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Spring; Flowers MAY IS BUILDING HER HOUSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May is building her house. With apple blooms Last Line: She is changing back again to spring's. Subject(s): Spring MAY MORNING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The school boy loitered on his way to school Last Line: Its blue commingling with the firmament. Subject(s): May (month); Spring MAY NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is fresh and fearless Last Line: And over-brimmed with spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring MAY TO APRIL, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without your showers %I breed no flowers Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees MAY YOU ALWAYS BE THE DARLING OF FORTUNE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March 10th and the snow flees like eloping brides Last Line: Vigilant. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MAY, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us remember spring will come again Last Line: At one with love, at one with grief: blind to the scattered things and changing skies. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War MAY-DAY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of heaven and earth, coy spring Last Line: Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure. Subject(s): Animals; Spring ME AND MARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my feelin's in the spring Last Line: "no more ""me and mary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring MEMORIAL OF A CONVERSATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! All things tell us of a birthright lost Last Line: With eden-flowers -- one mighty to atone! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring MEMORY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love's roses I gathered, all dewy, in may Last Line: I hear not the tempest, I'm dreaming of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Spring MERRY RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the rain Subject(s): Nature; Spring METRIC FIGURE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a bird in the poplars Subject(s): Spring MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy innocent gone home Last Line: On heavenly banks. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise MID-APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out his heavenly sallyport Last Line: Right here by uncle cully's. Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MIRACLE IN BOSTON, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On boston common their heart ash blows Last Line: O man's deliverance out of night! Subject(s): Boston; Mankind; Miracles; Spring; War; Human Race MISS BETTY'S SINGING-BIRD, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty song, this coming spring Last Line: To girls, if good, this coming spring. Subject(s): Spring MISS WILLOW, by SUSIE E. KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: A lady so fine came out of the woods Subject(s): Nature; Spring MISTER HOP-TOAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Howdy, mister hop-toad! Glad to see you out! Last Line: "howdy, mister hop-toad! How-dee-do!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Toads MISTRESS SPRING-IN-A-HURRY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearie o me! I am quite a flutter Last Line: Was ever a springtime so sprightly as I? Subject(s): Rain; Spring MONASTIC, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully, as if you are celibate Subject(s): Daffodils; Spring MONKEY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Monkey, little merry fellow Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Nature; Spring MORE THAN ENOUGH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first lily of june opens its red mouth. Subject(s): Summer; Spring; Flowers MOUNTAIN LIVING: 19, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: The world shines Last Line: The flowers of spring Subject(s): Spring; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN LIVING: 2, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: When plum petals among the snows Last Line: My nostrils wide Subject(s): Spring; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN LIVING: 9, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Clouds scatter the length of the the sky Last Line: As clear as the ice Subject(s): Rain; Spring; Zen Buddhism MOVED BY THE END OF SPRING: SENT TO A FRIEND, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: The oriole's song startles me from the remnants of a dream Last Line: And finish my song beside the low-limbed pine trees Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring MUDDY PUDDLE, by DENNIS LEE Poem Source First Line: I am sitting %in the middle Last Line: In the muddle %is the muddi- %ness of mud Subject(s): Spring MY APRIL LADY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When down the stair at morning Last Line: I know her name is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Desire; Love; Spring MY ELMS, by ROSE SOUTHMAYD Poem Text First Line: My elms, my lovely elms Last Line: My elms, my lovely elms. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Love; Nature; Spring MY FIRST WOMERN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my first womern Last Line: Was a year ago -- Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Spring; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY GARDEN, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: When I see the sun ashining Last Line: It's enough to make you laugh! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Soil; Spring; Vegetables MY MARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mary, o my mary! Last Line: An' I dinna find ye there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring; Summer MY OWN SPRING SONG, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis spring, a lovely scene Last Line: Is not a legal tender. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring MY SWEET WOODRUFF, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flowers of spring are seen Last Line: But he will know. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring NAP IN SPRING, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world continues without you, rooted Last Line: Learning to let go, learning to hold Subject(s): Love; Passion; Spring NATURE'S THOUGHFULNESS, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So busy is the dear old earth Subject(s): Nature; Spring NEVER BELIEVE, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never believe me when I say Last Line: Never believe that I am weeping. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Faith; Spring; Belief; Creed NEW APRIL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God guard you, and greet you well Last Line: That shut me close in my retreat. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Spring NEW EDITION OF SPRING, by NICHOLAS LLOYD INGRAHAM Poem Text First Line: The earth is touched with magic! Last Line: And maytime's loveliness. Subject(s): Spring NEW ENGLAND, SPRINGTIME, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emerson thought the bride had one eye Last Line: Cattle cars rattling by at sunset. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Missionaries & Missions; New England; Spring NEW LIFE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Spring comes laughing down the valley Last Line: From a root unseen. Subject(s): Spring NEW ROSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old love kissed you and went by Last Line: The dead rose to her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Spring NEW SPRING AND IT'S STILL 5:30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or time for dinner. My favorites Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Spring NEW SPRING: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neath the white tree sitting sadly Last Line: And thy heart with love is yearning. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sore perplex'd, the bells are ringing Last Line: Have much to do with all my confusion. Subject(s): Bells; Spring NEW SPRING: 13, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of spring, so azure Last Line: Known to the whole wood are. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring NEW SPRING: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wood, the verdure's shooting Last Line: And thy song of love is only! Subject(s): Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me who first taught clocks to chime Last Line: The sun was laughing, the birds were singing. Subject(s): Kisses; May (month); Spring NEW SPRING: 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the pinks are breathing fragrance Last Line: And the nightingales are singing. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses; Spring NEW SPRING: 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I not the self-same vision Last Line: Heart to heart so softly pressing! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night Last Line: My soul once more is distending. Subject(s): Spring NEW SPRING: 31, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linden blossoms drunk with moonlight Last Line: Might o'er stream and plain be gliding. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring NEW SPRING: 36, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day and night alike the springtime Last Line: That before my window rustle. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 37, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stars with golden feet are wand'ring Last Line: Or the nightingale alone? Subject(s): Spring; Stars NEW SPRING: 38, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is solemn, mournful only Last Line: To kiss a tear from off thy face. Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness NEW SPRING: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly through my spirit ring Last Line: Say, my love I send her. Subject(s): Spring NEW SPRING: 6, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Bees %visit flowers Last Line: At the wonder of all living things Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nature; Spring NEW SPRING: PROLOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when o'er pictures turning Last Line: In time's mighty fight to fight. Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time NIGHT, by CATHERINE BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: The witching magic of the scented night Last Line: Each corner hidden now by night's kind dark. Subject(s): Magic; Night; Spring; Bedtime NINETY FRAGRANT DAYS OF SPRING, by PAO-CHUEH TSU-HSIN Poem Source Last Line: Where do the petals fall? Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Zen Buddhism NO SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south come the birds that were banished Last Line: But unto a dead love there cometh no spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean NOAH, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: That great false texas sky, the color of oatmeal Last Line: Even two dogs that struck and quarreled like wolves Subject(s): Spring; Texas NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NORTH DAKOTA SPRING, by ALICE SINCLAIR PAGE Poem Text First Line: Balmy days have come again Last Line: In the marsh reeds, dense and tall. Subject(s): North Dakota; Spring NORTHERN SPRING, by GENE BARO Poem Source First Line: Across the greening lawn Subject(s): Spring NOTES AND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a crossbow Last Line: Small boats on the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain; Spring NOTES ON THE SPRING HOLIDAYS: 3. HANUKKAH, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a world where each man must be of use Subject(s): Spring; Hanukkah NOTES TOWARD A SPRING OFFENSIVE, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I begin again in may, describing weather, how Subject(s): Spring NOTICE THAT IS CALLED THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is nothing but a bier Variant Title(s): Poem: 1310; Poem: 131 Subject(s): Spring NOW THE STARLIT MOONLESS SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: After they have had their coffee Subject(s): California; Love; Paris, France; Spring NOW THE SUN IS SINKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Spring OAK IN SPRING, by KATHLEEN HUNKELE SCHARDIN Poem Source First Line: Crisp brown oak leaves %hung on all winter Last Line: But %first catching a glimpse of spring Subject(s): Nature; Rebirth; Spring ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring adorns the dewy scene Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Spring; Happiness; Drinks & Drinking; Joy; Delight; Wine ODE FOR THE FYRST OF MAYE, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit thy bed and sleepe of twilight Last Line: That letteth love goe bye. Subject(s): Love; Spring; Youth ODE ON A FAIR SPRING MORNING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, friend, let us forget Last Line: But life's full noontide never is withdrawn. Subject(s): Spring ODE ON THE SPRING, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the rosy-bosomed hours Last Line: We frolic while 't is may. Variant Title(s): On The Spring;spring Subject(s): Nature; Spring ODE TO SPRING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet daughter a rough and stormy sire Last Line: With softest influence breathes. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Spring; Spring ODE TO SPRING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire Last Line: With softest influence breathes. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Spring ODE TO SPRING, by EMERALD BROWNING KOEB Poem Text First Line: O spring, fair earth's awakening! Last Line: And sleep in the primal ethers that abound. Subject(s): Spring ODE TO SPRING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark! Did ye hear them - the rumours afloat Last Line: Bird-like to sing mid its own fragrant bower! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Spring; World ODE TO SPRING, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can only find words fo Subject(s): Spring ODE TO THE CUCKOO, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove [or, wood]! / attendant on the spring! Last Line: Companions of the spring. Variant Title(s): To The Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring ODE TO WORK IN SPRINGTIME, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, would that working I might shun Last Line: Immoral!) Subject(s): Flowers; Spring ODE: TO SPRING, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sharp winter melts and changes into spring Last Line: Soon lost to man, soon lost to girls in heat Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Spring ODE: WRITTEN ON THE OPENING OF THE LAST CAMPAIGN, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring! Thy impatient bloom restrain Last Line: And war his blood-stain'd throne resign! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Spring; War ODES I, 4. SPRING, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hard winter melts; the welcome spring again Last Line: And maids will by and by Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Spring OLD AND NEW; A PARABLE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how the autumn leaves float by decaying Last Line: Look! England's bare boughs show green leaf again. Subject(s): Spring OLD AUSTRALIAN WAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The london lights are far abeam Last Line: And know what clancy knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Youth OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers ON A LEGAL STAIRCASE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: In certain lights old doomsday's name Last Line: That spring must soon begin. Subject(s): Spring ON A YOUNG LADY'S GOING TO OWN IN THE SPRING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night unhappy celadon Last Line: Not satisfied with private sway at home. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Night; Spring; Youth; Bedtime ON AN EARLY SPRING, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Old feeble winter to gay spring resigns Last Line: While sun-beams sparkle on the tissued waves. Subject(s): Spring ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness ON READING PAUL AND VIRGINIA IN CHILDHOOD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle story of the indian isle! Last Line: To reach with blight that holiest edenflower. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood ON RECORDS OF IMMATURE GENIUS; AFTER READING POEMS OF MRS. TIGHE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Judge in thoughtful tenderness of those Last Line: Their grand consummate hymn, from passion-gusts made free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring; Tighe, Mary [blachford] (1773-1810) ON SPRING, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, thou auspicious vernal dawn! Last Line: Which ne'er shall cease to ring! Subject(s): Spring ON THE BACKWARDNESS OF THE SPRING 1771, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain the sprightly sun renews his course Last Line: And melt upon the bosom of the may. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Spring ON THE CONEJO, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Spring will come! Last Line: Spring will have come! Subject(s): Spring ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean ON THE WILLOW BANK, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: The riverbank is white like silver. Last Line: And ahead will keep on flying Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees ON THE WYE IN MAY, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the perfect moment of the year Last Line: Where first and best and last shall be the same. Subject(s): Spring; Wye (river), Great Britain ON WATCHING THE FLIGHT OF A SKY-LARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upward and upward still! In pearly light Last Line: Save by the unswerving flight, upward and upward still! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Spring; Skylarks ONCE EACH SPRING THE FACE OF OPHELIA APPEARS UPON THE WATERS, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: She drifts with the current on her back Last Line: The clouds will roll downstream like drawings of organ music Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Spring ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose which spied one swallow Last Line: But that rose never more Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter; Spring ONE WAY OF SPRING, FR. SHIPS IN HARBOUR, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring came to this street with spinning tops Last Line: And set to dreaming many a trojan boy. Subject(s): Spring ONE, TWO, WINTER'S THROUGH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Nine, ten, the world begins again! Subject(s): Spring ONLY THYME, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: I pull you out by the roots, fierce love Last Line: Of consciousness, leaving only this Subject(s): Love; Plants; Spring; Thyme OOOLD MAN TOLSTOY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I need a bitter taste a tonic Last Line: For spring %lightness Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Loss; Spring ORCHARD BLOSSOMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doth thy heart stir within thee at the sight Last Line: And will for us endear spring-memories to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Last Line: To hear the black-robed choir of their sighs Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women OTHER SPRINGS, by ROSEMARY BASEFLUG Poem Text First Line: Now I again remember Last Line: In a small boy's hand. Subject(s): Memory; Spring OTHER SPRINGS, by RACHEL LUMPKIN WYLY Poem Text First Line: All day I've been remembering other springs Last Line: I thanked the day for being kind to me. Subject(s): Spring OUR GARDEN, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING Poem Source First Line: The winter is gone, and at first jack and I were sad Subject(s): Nature; Spring OUR SINGING STRENGTH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm Last Line: And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed Subject(s): Spring; Singing & Singers; Songs OUT OF MAY'S SHOWS SELECTED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms Last Line: The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers. Subject(s): Spring OUTCOME, by XI MURONG Poem Source First Line: When spring returns Last Line: And a faint strip %of setting sun Subject(s): Spring OVER THE LAND IS APRIL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hear you the songs of spring? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Spring OXFORDSHIRE [CHILDREN'S] MAY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "spring is coming, spring is coming" Last Line: Joy is everywhere Variant Title(s): May Song Subject(s): Spring PANSY, by LENA LULL RUMRILL Poem Text First Line: I walked into my garden Last Line: "to come up through the ground." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pansies; Spring PANSY FACES, by ANNE PAULINE CLARK Poem Text First Line: Little pansy faces Last Line: As the pansies of spring unfold. Subject(s): Pansies; Spring PASQUE'S RETURN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the pasque! Again the gift of beauty Last Line: Is lying in the beauty of the cup. Subject(s): Beauty; Spring PASTORAL BALLADS: SPRING, by THOMAS BREREWOOD Poem Text First Line: When approached by the fair dewy fingers of spring Last Line: "young as april and blooming as may." Subject(s): Spring PEACE, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A singular virtue is in the heat of spring Last Line: Or roman courtiers sauntering to the bath. Subject(s): Rest; Spring PEACH-BLOSSOM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly the hoar-frost freezes Last Line: And life shall never die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches; Spring; Dead, The PIGEON HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look! Here's a pretty pigeon house! Subject(s): Nature; Spring PINKEY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reckon wintah's going Last Line: Seems as if I couldn't wait. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Spring PIPPA PASSES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day! / faster and more fast Last Line: [she sleeps. Variant Title(s): Asolo;day!;good Morning;sunrise Subject(s): Love; Religion; Spring; Theology PLANTED HIMSELF TO GROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear, little, bright-eyed willie Subject(s): Nature; Spring PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PLUM HINT, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: Plums have bloomed, comrades. Last Line: Are like the ten thousand hearts of our commune members Subject(s): Growth; Plums; Spring POEM ABOUT A DAY: RURAL MEDITATIONS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So here we have a teacher Last Line: Over the fence of his corral! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rain; Spain; Spring POEM TO MY HEART IN EARLY SPRING, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: I'm assured all this will be Last Line: The garden's late to bloom. Something %will come of this Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Spring POETIC EPIGRAMS: 6. LOVE LETTERS RETURNED IN SPRING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many petals fall Last Line: They once were growing all! Subject(s): Letters; Love; Spring POLLIWOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A tiny little polliwog Subject(s): Nature; Spring POND, PORCH-VIEW: SIX P.M., EARLY SPRING, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit, and sit, and will my thoughts Last Line: Anyplace but here. %who am I kidding? Here I am Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Spring PRAISING SPRING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is taken by each thing and grows complete Subject(s): Spring PRAYER CONTINUED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far are the wings of intellect astray Last Line: Keep my soul wakeful still to listen and to learn. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Prayer; Spring PRAYER FOR THIS DAY, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER Poem Source First Line: Here, west of winter, lies the ample flower Subject(s): Spring PRELUDE, by MARGARET LEE HOPE Poem Text First Line: I walk alone among the leafless trees Last Line: I see a touch of spring -- a violet blue. Subject(s): Spring PRELUDE FOR SPRING, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These dreams abound Last Line: These dreams abound. Subject(s): Spring PRESSINGS, by GEORGE+(3) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: I have found poems Last Line: Petals I have tried to press %between the pages of us Subject(s): Memory; Relationships; Spring PRIMAVERAL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, sun, green meadow, and a villa set Last Line: It's you who blossom newborn and rise here Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring PRIMORDIAL SPRINGS, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you sleeping, springtime of the world? Last Line: Springs I have never known. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melancholy; Mourning; Spring; Dejection; Bereavement PROLOGUE TO SPRING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter landscape hangs in balance now Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring PROMISE, by MARTHA ELIZABETH SIMONTON Poem Text First Line: If spring should come again Last Line: But oh, my dear your voice I'll miss! Subject(s): Spring PROPHETIC SPRING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree Last Line: Each other, she and I. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations PUSA MAN: SPRING BOUDOIR, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: The flossy rain vexes the flowers and weighs down the buds Last Line: They'll reach home before I do Subject(s): Spring PUSSY WILLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dainty pussy willows Subject(s): Nature; Spring PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood PUSSY WILLOWS, by ELIZABETH BRADY Poem Text First Line: Perhaps they are pearls from the robe of / the night Last Line: Have I solved your sweet secret at last? Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees PUSSY-WILLOWS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Damp dead trees, / damp dead leaves Last Line: Is in the willows! Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Spring; Willow Trees QUITE TRUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the spring returns with the sun's sweet light Last Line: Don't make up the world, friend, by far. Subject(s): Spring RAGGED ROBIN, by L. A. TAWMLEY Poem Source First Line: A man of taste is robinet Subject(s): Nature; Spring RAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Millions of massive rain-drops Last Line: Keeping time upon the trees Subject(s): Spring RAIN, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, the dancing leaves are merry Subject(s): Nature; Spring RAIN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The april rain falls quietly, / with soft caress for bush and tree Last Line: December rain, december rain. Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Spring; Water; Weather RAIN AT COLD-FOOD FESTIVAL: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since coming to huang-chou Last Line: Up from his sickbed, his hair already white? Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Festivals; Spring RAIN AT COLD-FOOD FESTIVAL: 2, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring flood is coming up to my door Last Line: But dead ashes can't be ignited by fanning Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Festivals; Spring REAL WONDER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stunned little interval Last Line: Preceding real wonder . Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection RECLUSE, by ALDO CAMERINO Poem Source First Line: The first spasm became the continuous %fearful certainty Last Line: But waving to it from a distance Subject(s): Spring RECONNAISSANCE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks RECURRENCE, by HAZEL BURROUGHS SWAIN Poem Text First Line: You may stir from your winter slumber now Last Line: Spring is here. Subject(s): Spring REDBUD TIME, by BERTHA CAPPER SANDERS Poem Text First Line: Deep in my heart is a feeling Last Line: And we'll be together in redbud time. Subject(s): Spring REFLECTIONS, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: It is april by the river! Last Line: Of that jewel in the stream! Subject(s): April; Spring RELIEF COMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are blustering and rough, the frost Last Line: Just ahead that's bound to knock out sorrow. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight REMEMBERING, by ANNA PRIESTLEY Poem Text First Line: I remember a little inn Last Line: Only beauty's ghost? Subject(s): Hotels; Memory; Moon; Spring; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses RENEWAL, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: When trees renew their life in spring Last Line: When trees renew their life in spring. Subject(s): Hope; Spring; Optimism REPETITIONS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I plunge at the rearing hours Last Line: (who has not waked may not yet sleep.) Subject(s): Sewing; Spring RESURRECTION, by HAZEL B. POOLE Poem Text First Line: I know not whether - watching you Last Line: Returns to meet the spring. Subject(s): Spring RESURRECTION, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: When songsters were carolling matins betimes Last Line: Of the spring. Subject(s): Miracles; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter RETURN, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: March stirs and like a shaggy beast he shakes Last Line: April: oh earth; let nothing now befall her. Subject(s): April; March (month); Spring RETURN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's warm against the slats of the granary Last Line: And want something better. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Longing; Nature; Spring RETURN OF SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God shield ye, heralds of the spring Last Line: Forbade my steps to rove. Subject(s): Nature; Spring RETURN OF SPRING, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely maiden, roaming Last Line: That was old and is young again. Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng Subject(s): Spring REVERENCE, by MARGARET MOORE MEUTTMAN Poem Text First Line: The spring this year, as other years Last Line: I know why spring kneels down. Subject(s): Spring RHYME FOR THE PROCURESS IN SPRINGTIME, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The first spring rain cools a cup of tea too hot to drink Last Line: Lift your skirts, ladies-the canal's at the door %lapping for your babies Subject(s): Rain; Spring RHYTHMS OF A MAIMED SPRINGTIME, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery that weighs upon my soul! Why do the shadows stifle me? Last Line: Blast my thoughts that cling to the eternal grind! Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Dreams; Mystery; Spring; Enigmas; Oddities; Nightmares RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When spring comes Last Line: Thinking they're in the sea Subject(s): Rice; Spring RIGHTS OF SPRING, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Came out of god's great breath Last Line: And congress voted closing down the year Subject(s): Spring ROBIN, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly spring wings Last Line: Suddenly spring wings %into the backyard, ready %to play tug-of-worm Subject(s): Robins; Spring ROBIN, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tall elm-tree sat the robin bright Subject(s): Nature; Spring ROBIN'S COME, by WILLIAM WARREN CALDWELL Poem Text First Line: From the elm-tree's topmost bough Last Line: Robin's come. Subject(s): Spring ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: GEOFFRY RUDEL AND MELISANDA OF TRIPOLI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chateau blay still see we Last Line: On the wall, in shy confusion. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Spring; Voices; Suffering; Misery RONDEAU, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tyme hath throwne down the robe he bare Last Line: Tyme hath throwne downe the robe he bare. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring RONDEAU, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Salute for me the fellowe-ship Last Line: Salute for me the fellowe-ship. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring RONDEAU, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Myne only love, my joye, my boone Last Line: Myne only love, my joye, my boone. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring RONDEAU, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How comely hath godde made her be Last Line: Howe comely hath godde made her be! Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring RONDEAU, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The year has cast his cloak away Last Line: Of wind, and cold, and rainy sky. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring RONDEAU, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The year has cast its cloak away Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring RONDEL, by JOHN PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me, sweetheart, the spring is here Last Line: "and love is lord of you and me." Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Spring ROUNDEL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, again I'm due to Last Line: Spring. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring ROVER IN CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas a sunday morning in early may Subject(s): Nature; Spring RU MENG LING: SPRING EVENING, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Like a face in parting, the flowers show little color Last Line: A few weeping willows still sway slender and soft Subject(s): Spring SAFE AND SOUND (A LITTLE ACTION SONG), by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Safe and sound in the ground Last Line: While mr. Rough wind rides around Subject(s): Plants; Seeds; Winter; Spring SAINT-HENRI SPRING, by MILTON ACORN Poem Source First Line: Spring I remember wild canaries Subject(s): Spring SAPPHIC ODE, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gracious dweller of the woodland green Last Line: Shatter thy pinions! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SCEPTIC, by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Text First Line: Let those who know for certain that the sea Last Line: By. Subject(s): Moon; Spring SCHERZO, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, beloved, come and bring Last Line: In the blossom of your face. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Spring SCHERZO, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flower-girl, singing, comes up from the river Last Line: All the spring at my feet! Subject(s): Spring SEASONS SHIFT, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever onward seasons shift Last Line: No reaching yao or yellow emperor, %distressing solitude lies in me Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Seasons; Spring; Transience SEASONS: SPRING, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When light returns to face the earth anew Last Line: While seeking for perfection in this world Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Spring SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peaceful western wind Last Line: Twill yield thee little grace. Subject(s): Love; Spring SEED, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: O freighted thought, trembling within my mind Last Line: And destiny is ineluctable! Subject(s): Seeds; Soul; Spring; Thought; Thinking SEED (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As wonderful things are hidden away Subject(s): Nature; Spring SEED FOR SPRING EQUINOX, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrusting through the season where I'd waited for spring Last Line: "now I watch the watching dark my light’s long-growing dark Subject(s): Spring SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F., by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here something stubborn comes Last Line: And starts to ramify Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Seeds; Spring SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F., by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here something stubborn comes Last Line: Takes aim at all the sky %and starts to ramify Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets; Seeds; Spring SENRYU: SPRING IS HERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: With cherry blossoms Last Line: Stop talking so much! Subject(s): Spring; Silence SEPTEMBER, by MARCELLA P. FRANK Poem Text First Line: A robin sang as lustily today Last Line: April's sun and shower in september? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall SERRANILLA, by INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA Poem Source First Line: From calatrava as I took my way Last Line: Her heart is free, no thought of love has bound her %here with the herds around her Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring SHALL I?, by FLAVIA CAMP CANFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sap runs up joyously to the treetops Last Line: Above the stars? Subject(s): Spring SIGNS OF SPRING, by THERESA S. YORK Poem Text First Line: When the nearest hills choose pastel green Last Line: It's spring. Subject(s): Insects; Spring; Bugs SILVER SPRING, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord of light revealed Last Line: Undine! Undine! Thou are princess of the parables of old! Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Springs (water) SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blooming time o'th year Last Line: For wishing to be king. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Wishes; Youth; Songs SIMPLE THINGS, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite, let me not think on you Last Line: Roses of death. Subject(s): Details; Flowers; Love; Roses; Spring; Things SINGING BRANCH, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: If you had never loved me then, oh then Last Line: Beneath whose singing branch our love has been. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Love; Rain; Spring SINGING WITH SPRING, by JEAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: Today I matched my heart with spring Last Line: "let us match our hearts together!" Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight SIS RAPALYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rainy-greener shoots the Last Line: With laughter, blossoms, singing birds and sweet sis rapalye. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Laughter; Spring; Childhood SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS UNDER GROUND, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I sing to heaven because my unknown streams make the Last Line: Caverns; and I said, 'sister water, let us bless the lord!' Subject(s): Blessings; God; Praise; Spring; Water SIX YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the springs of six and seven Last Line: 09/30/80 Subject(s): Birthdays; Love; Spring SLOW SPRING, by ARDELL CARDON Poem Text First Line: Let march now blush with blossom brief and white Last Line: And hear the crashing thunder of desire. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Sun SNAPSHOT, by DONALD LINDSAY Poem Text First Line: This, they tell me, is a photograph of you Last Line: Cut down. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Spring SNOW AND THE PLUM: 1, by LU MEI-PO Poem Source First Line: The plum and the snow both claim the spring Last Line: But the snow can't match a wisp of plum perfume Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fruit; Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring SNOW AND THE PLUM: 2, by LU MEI-PO Poem Source First Line: The plum without the snow isn't very special Last Line: Together with the plum they complete the spring Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring SNOWDROP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now the spring is coming on Subject(s): Nature; Spring SO GLAD FOR SPREENG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Eef som'body com' to-day Last Line: "here ees com' da spreeng!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOME RAINBOW COMING FROM THE FAIR!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or what circassian land? Subject(s): Spring; Nature SOME THINGS RETURN IN SPRING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brave spears of the garlic Subject(s): Spring SOMETHING IN THE SPRING MUD, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: There must be something in the spring mud that wants to set us free Last Line: In the still, bare branches Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SOMETHING SAID, WAKING DRUNK ON A SPRING DAY, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's like boundless dream here in this Last Line: And now it's over, I've forgotten why Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Spring SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens Subject(s): Sports; Spring SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love came first to earth, the spring Last Line: That likes all times and seasons. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall SONG, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That zephyr every year Last Line: But we, once dead, no more do see the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Spring Bereaved: 1 Subject(s): Spring SONG, by R. L. EATON Poem Text First Line: The april sun smiles bright above Last Line: Are opening to the spring. Subject(s): Spring SONG, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: O beauteous april, whom too often choral Last Line: Month, to such bitter bloom as once you bore. Subject(s): April; Love - Unrequited; Spring SONG (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under boughs of breathing may Last Line: Jubileed for joy. Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Spring SONG (9), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy now is out upon the green Last Line: Will never speak to me in vain, tho' soundly rapt in peace. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SONG AT LATE SPRING, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Spring days are long, the spring grass is lush Last Line: Who is playing the flute to add to my grief? Subject(s): Grief; Spring SONG BIRD OF THE SPRING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You make talk about your bobolinks, and the Last Line: But the umpire is the bird of birds, the song-bird of the spring! Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Sports; Spring SONG FOR JUNE 16TH, FEAST OF LEOPOLD BLOOM, by BARBARA FOLKART Poem Source First Line: The last of spring is rushing through the windows Last Line: Flagrant! %it's bloomsday Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Spring SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: April goes out as may comes in Last Line: And the gentle adorers %their missions of love begin Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring SONG IN SPRING: 1, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: O little buds all bourgeoning with spring Last Line: O little buds all bourgeoning with spring! Subject(s): Spring SONG IN SPRING: 2, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: At hint of spring I have you back again Last Line: At hint of spring I have you back again! Subject(s): Spring SONG IN THE STORM, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: It rains, but on a dripping bough Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Nature; Spring SONG OF PEACH TREE SPRING, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: My fishing boat sails the river. I love spring in the mountains Last Line: But I never find that holy source again Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Spring SONG OF SOLOMON 2: 10-13. SPRING, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: For, lo, the winter is past Last Line: And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Subject(s): Spring SONG OF SPRING, by WU CHUN Poem Source First Line: Spring - where has it come from Last Line: No way to share a word with you, %in vain I face the sup that wakes these memories Subject(s): Spring SONG OF SPRING, by EDWARD YOUL Poem Text First Line: Laud the first spring daisies Last Line: Your voices in his praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Youl, J. L. Subject(s): Spring SONG OF THE DESERT LARK, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, in vain Last Line: And so die. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring SONG OF THE SPRINGTIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O season supposed of all free flowers Last Line: Are fiddlededee! Subject(s): Flowers;seasons;singing & Singers;spring SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SPRING SONG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, dawn creeps down the valley Last Line: From their shadowy hearts again? Subject(s): Spring SONG-TIME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out the blossomed cherry-tops Last Line: With empty heart and silent tongue. Subject(s): Spring; Autumn; Aging; Fall SONG: SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When buds of palm do burst and spread Last Line: Like dewy violets under the green. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall SONG: SPRING, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spring, come back with all thy woodland joys Last Line: Her youthful pulses, and be fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Spring SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the flowering sierra Last Line: Now gallant spring is here Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF CREATION, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is spring! Last Line: It has always seemed. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Spring; Male-female Relations SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth Last Line: That we desire no more? Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flush of green that dyed the day Last Line: I pass into thy spring. Subject(s): Aging; Change; God; Nature; Night; Spring; Stars; Youth; Bedtime SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 110, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first soft green of a northern spring Last Line: And the firelight danced on the floor. Subject(s): Love – Beginings; Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 118, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the faint horizon Last Line: Under the heart of spring? Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 119, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the golden april Last Line: A thousand ages old? Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 120, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the golden sunlight Last Line: With lonely pangs for thee! Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 24, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wandered through the soft spring days Last Line: A thousand springs. Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 7, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more in every tree-top Last Line: Camp-followers of spring! Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 84, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows are all golden now Last Line: Comes back the old spring madness now. Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 85, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wonder of all wonders Last Line: At this poor door of mine! Subject(s): Spring; Hope SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 87, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes up the slope of the grey old sea Last Line: With the wisdom of lovers, my yvonne. Subject(s): Spring SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 88, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now spring comes up the world, sweetheart Last Line: Then glad the whole day through. Subject(s): Spring; Happiness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 89, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain on the roof is your laughter Last Line: My heart holds for you. Subject(s): Spring; Happiness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: PRELUDE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the little songs Last Line: Turning her face to the sun. Subject(s): Songs; Children; Sea; Innocence; Spring; Happiness; Love SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE ESCAPE, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: I have run through the great gates of the garden into Last Line: Remained in the shining garden alone in the spring night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring SONNET, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old city and its heaps of earth-brown streets Last Line: From caverns of my dream, you also soar! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Spring; Travel SONNET: 1, by MATTEO MARIA BOIARDO Poem Source First Line: The song of birds which leaps from leaf to leaf Last Line: The sky is clear, the sea is locked in calms Alternate Author Name(s): Scandiano, Count Of Variant Title(s): Il Canto De Li Augei Di Frunda In Frund Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Spring SONNET: 2. IN ABSENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These rugged, wintry days I scarce could bear Last Line: That comes with steady sun when april dies. Subject(s): Absence; Spring; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 9, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not undelightful, friend, our rustic ease Last Line: Stands, coolly buried, to the neck in green. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Woods SONNET: APRIL, 1879, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear, golden, soft, the spring-tide sunshine beams Last Line: And still perfection were but death in life. Subject(s): Spring SONNET: COMPOSED ON A MARCH MORNING IN THE WOODS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are loud and trumpet-clear to-day Last Line: Blooms as once bloomed the fair hesperides. Subject(s): Spring SONNET: MARCH, 1878, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird sits and pipes his love-notes clear Last Line: And golden hues for grey, and bloom for blight. Subject(s): Spring SONNET: MAY, 1879, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, coy spring, concede one festal day Last Line: Whose shadows are but images of flowers. Subject(s): Spring SONNETS OF SEASONS: 1. SPRING, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of thinking man were I a tree Last Line: On each gnarled apple-tree the green earth bears. Subject(s): Spring SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has returned. The earth resembles Last Line: Difficult root, she sings, she sings Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Spring SOUTH OF THE YANGTZE, THINKING OF SPRING, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many times will I see spring green Last Line: Chanting long farewells at heaven's gate Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 118, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your love is like a pool Last Line: But the spring remains Subject(s): Love; Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 138, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your love is a well, whose water Last Line: Of itself flows out Subject(s): Love; Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 6, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The tiles of your roof are wanting Last Line: In the month of april born Subject(s): Beauty; Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 68, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crystal-like spring Last Line: Long roads are short Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 72, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little tree, you withered Last Line: And in your little branch, love Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring SPANISH SPRING, by JEAN D. ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Spring, ah yes, the joyful time of year Last Line: But makes the horror of the scene complete. Subject(s): Spring SPARE THE NESTS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Is it a nest? It is a nest! See, 'mid the branches hidden Last Line: Than dry and withered blossoms, or shattered, ruined nests? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Forests; Sanctuaries; Spring SPECTRES OF SPRING, by MARK TURBYFILL Poem Text First Line: The paling vine-leaf, savant of spring Last Line: To dream of spring. Subject(s): Spring SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants SPLENDOUR OF MY HEART, by GLADYS HASSE Poem Text First Line: This splendour of my heart comes not alone Last Line: I would not change its splendour for the sun. Subject(s): Love; Spring SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a charm when spring is young Last Line: What charm of life is wanting? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Death; Hunting; Singing & Singers; Sports; Spring; Dead, The; Hunters SPRING, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the spring herself discloses Last Line: Freshly bourgeons every bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring SPRING, by LOUIS BOUILHET Poem Text First Line: Rise from your bed for the spring is born this morning Last Line: Telling of my love for you where fruit-trees flow'r. Subject(s): Love; Spring SPRING, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Other poets may muse on thy beauties, and sing Last Line: When by going to you she would find all together? Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Rain swells Last Line: The sun %a white spider in the morning sky Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Unfaithfulness SPRING, by REED BYE Poem Source First Line: Bluebird & %honeymoon over Last Line: We see him & start to cheer Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by JENNIE COPPOCK CAFFREY Poem Text First Line: Pale green tinging the quakers Last Line: Big boulders tumble along its bed. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost Last Line: June in her eyes, in her heart january. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by MARION J. CARLEY Poem Text First Line: When nature wakens from her sleep Last Line: To him who rules the earth and skies. Subject(s): Spring; Winter SPRING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First came the rain, loud, with sonorous lips Last Line: Who, with blue eyes, set the wild world on fire. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The crow, adjusting one eye on me Last Line: Nourish the vast, stagnant harvest-fields Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest; Spring SPRING, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, all hail to thee! Last Line: Welcome, young spring! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are the places Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The year has changed his mantle cold Last Line: The year lays down his mantle cold. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Love; Spring SPRING, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle spring! In sunshine clad Last Line: When thy merry step draws near. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Love; Spring SPRING, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Perchance this breeze has roamed through southern / bowers Last Line: The sunshine and—the spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Spring SPRING, by RUTH L. DROWNS Poem Text First Line: Clouds walking across the sun Last Line: To view such perfect pageantry. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: Second month: orioles call beyond the courtyard Last Line: On dark strands beneath the flowers, little spiders descend Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the violet of our early days Last Line: O'er every hill that under heaven expands. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the first hour, it was as if one said, 'arise' Last Line: Shot forth, and was followed by a whole host of flowers. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lanes are lyric Last Line: Spring! Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did spring-time whisper? Last Line: Spring has come! Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come out! It's spring Last Line: "the spring! The spring! Come out! Come out!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by THORSTEINN GISLASON Poem Text First Line: The air is filled with sunlight Last Line: The hillsides and the moors. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird at my window Last Line: Sing on full cheerily. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring, thou youthful beauty of the year Last Line: And what I was no more, dear to another's eyes. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN GUNTHER Poem Text First Line: Shy little one, elysium's here Last Line: Elected us for lover's mirth! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by HANNES HAFSTEIN Poem Text First Line: The woods have wakened, birch and oak are gay Last Line: And flowers abound. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairy spring, in kirtle green Last Line: And gentle peace thy reign approve! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Spring; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry storms are over Last Line: That hail the budding spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Spring; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility SPRING, by BERTHA HEATH Poem Text First Line: Unfolding of the leaves in spring Last Line: Oh let joy fill your day. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters glisten and merrily glide Last Line: How lovely is love midst spring's splendour! Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring SPRING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is past; the heart of nature warms Last Line: Dazzled and giddy in the morning's blaze! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is so beautiful as spring Last Line: Most, o maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning. Subject(s): Eden; Jesus Christ; Religion; Spring; Time; Theology SPRING, by HWANG SOG'U Poem Source First Line: Autumn gone, spring is freed from bondage Last Line: O birds, peaks, gentle rain and moon! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by IIO SOGI Poem Source First Line: Wait to scatter Last Line: I can complain to Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by PAUL B. JANECZKO Poem Source First Line: A breezy ballerina %dances over foggy fields Last Line: As the icy bear of winter %melts away Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by KIM KIRIM Poem Source First Line: April at last wakes up Last Line: Before it strives over the winter Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: I'm shouting %I'm singing Last Line: I'm running on rooftops %and welcoming spring! Subject(s): Imagination; Spring SPRING, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, glad spring, has dawned on earth Last Line: Now sleeping in an unknown grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Green-shadowed people sit, or walk in rings Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green-shadowed people sit, or walk in rings Last Line: Their paths grown cravan and circuitous, %their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by HAZEL FUNK LOCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: A flash of blue in the lilac hedge Last Line: Spring -- sweet spring -- is here again. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by KATHERINE NEAL LOVE Poem Text First Line: Whether it was a profile / of a jagged mountain Last Line: Of a by-gone summer. Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whisper on the heath I hear Last Line: Is in her blushing maidenhood. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by ANNE ELIZABETH MADDOCK Poem Text First Line: The sun lies light on a jade-green hill Last Line: And the note of a bird links earth with god! Subject(s): Religion; Spring; Theology SPRING, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I stand as on the verge of life; 'tis spring Last Line: My full heart fails when it should be most strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Spring SPRING, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Madness, madness of bird-note Last Line: Spring, spring, spring is en rampage again! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what purpose, april, do you return again? Last Line: Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring comes linking and jinking through the woods Last Line: That I canna, spring, but love and bless thee evermair Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Trees have a gesture of departure Last Line: For rooted souls. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs Last Line: An idyl of love and spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Poppies; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is here!' the primrose says Last Line: Though tyranny endures so long! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Freedom; Socialism; Spring; Liberty SPRING, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Leaves of the lilac mingle with the flowers Last Line: Mid breezes straying from the court of god. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somehwere / a black bear Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by GRACE FITZGERALD ORR Poem Text First Line: Out in god's brilliant sunshine Last Line: That spring has come to stay. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already, while the snow is on the ground Last Line: And with the swelling year shall grow and form its life. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by ANNE PITKIN Poem Source First Line: The morning glory, promiscuity Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories; Spring SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The hours are softly calling Last Line: Bidding thee arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Seasons; Spring; World SPRING, by MARY KATHARINE REELY Poem Text First Line: God, how I hate it, spring! Last Line: God, how shall I endure it, spring! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Spring SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no images here Last Line: Beginning of another spring Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning all the almond trees Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones Subject(s): Nature; Provence, France; Spring SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind in almond blossoms Last Line: Soldiers shoot at paper men Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the tender maiden Last Line: That forgotten radiance of our youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: The streets tonite are Last Line: Snow. They go. They go Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk and I wonder Last Line: The ways of the spring. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frost-locked all the winter Last Line: Hastening to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft-littered is the new year's lambing-fold Last Line: Whose breath shall soothe you like your dear one's hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by RUDAGI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring came Last Line: Give happiness %to one another Alternate Author Name(s): Rudaki, Abu' Abdullah Ja'far-ibn Mohammad; Rudaki, Ja'far Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infant spirit of the spring Last Line: Infant spirit of the spring! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by GOTTLOB ERNST SCHULZE Poem Text First Line: Oh come, sweet spring, thy budding flowers unfold Last Line: And nothing left, save only love's despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Schulze-aenesidemus Subject(s): Love; Spring SPRING, by BARBARA M. SIMON Poem Source First Line: His hand to the cheek of the ground Last Line: To the harvest, the growing %process in between Subject(s): Growth; Spring SPRING, by ELLA TREW SIMPERS Poem Text First Line: There is work to be done in the world, I know Last Line: For the gods of spring are by. Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING, by SIGRID SITTIG Poem Text First Line: Sunlight like myriad shining white gulls skimming the water Last Line: Never to flower? Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by TRACY K. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Let's not talk Last Line: Shrug off sleep don't %say a word I'm listening Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alder by the river Last Line: God made them all for you! Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: When all dark winter's furious winds have blown Last Line: Dawns april in a purple lilac tree Subject(s): Seasons; Spring SPRING, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Young morning tapped sharply on my window Last Line: All day two dusty, bloated flies have been crawling over the sky-light. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Nature; Spring; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SPRING, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is here - the delicate footed may Last Line: And pine till it is hooded from the sky. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I smelt the wind from heidelberg to-day Last Line: The flames of this green fire? Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: All night he could hear the noise Last Line: Quickly as the river ate the land %from under his feet, passed him by Subject(s): Ranch Life; Spring SPRING, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, old world, old lazy-bones, wake to the spring-tune Last Line: Nothing escapes; nothing can resist dancing to its absurd and delightful melody. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The robin saw the new spring bonnet Last Line: And it was spring! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Robins; Spring SPRING, by DARTHEA ENO YUILLE Poem Text First Line: All poets and lovers of the spring Last Line: And pushed its way into our home! Subject(s): Spring SPRING (1), by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the lark with song and speed Last Line: Safe in my dearest memory. Subject(s): Spring SPRING (1), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning all the almond trees Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones Subject(s): Spring SPRING (2), by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dews drip roses on the meadows Last Line: The wild delights of spring. Subject(s): Spring SPRING (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind in almond blossoms Last Line: Soldiers shoot at paper men Subject(s): Spring SPRING (2), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the green-kindling hawthorn hill Last Line: Girdled the glad white-flowering hill. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Temples; Graveyards; Mosques SPRING AFTER THE WAR, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, loveliest season of the year Last Line: That wait their everlasting spring! Subject(s): Spring SPRING AGAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, with all her splendor Last Line: Now rings the forest over. Subject(s): Spring SPRING AND ALL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: By the road to the contagious hospital Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): Spring SPRING AND ALL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the road to the contagious hospital Last Line: Entrance-still, the profound change %has come upon them: rooted, they %grip down and begin to awaken Variant Title(s): Poe Subject(s): Spring SPRING AND AUTUMN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God in his heart made autumn for the young Last Line: Whose harvest is not for their gathering. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement SPRING AND MOTHER, by CAROLINE DARR FITZSIMMONS Poem Text First Line: Far away in wooded fields Last Line: Dear the precepts that you taught. Subject(s): Mothers; Spring SPRING AND WINTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world buds every year Last Line: But the thorns remain behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Spring; Winter SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees SPRING ARTICULATE, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: These springs, articulate of resurrection Last Line: From sleep which is a sustenance to these. Subject(s): Spring SPRING AT FORT OKANOGAN, by RAMONA WILSON Poem Source First Line: Though I heard the wind Last Line: The air will be sweet %ad breath of new horses Subject(s): Spring SPRING BEHIND ASCUTNEY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the pussy-willow shows Last Line: Shall brand her image, bright with mutability. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ascutney, Vermont; Spring SPRING BLIZZARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A limb's sententious crack Last Line: I wish you wouldn't look at me that way Subject(s): Snow; Spring SPRING BLOSSOMS: 1, by KI NO TSURAYUKI Poem Source First Line: On a spring hillside Last Line: Even in the midst of my dreams Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRING BLOSSOMS: 2, by KI NO TSURAYUKI Poem Source First Line: The hue is as rich Last Line: Of the one who planted the tree Subject(s): Spring; Trees SPRING BLOSSOMS: 3, by KI NO TSURAYUKI Poem Source First Line: The wind that scatters Last Line: Snow flurries like these Subject(s): Spring; Trees SPRING BLUES, by ELSIE M. LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The thrill of seeing first robin Subject(s): Spring SPRING BREEZE, by KIM OK Poem Source First Line: Gentlty and softly %it dances with leaves Last Line: The gentle breeze %is my soul sorely sick for love Subject(s): Spring SPRING BURNING, by JOHN DANIEL Poem Source First Line: One april morning in the rain I pile green boughs Last Line: To the far, invisible stars it has not forgotten Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING CAME IN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring came in with a red-wing's feather Last Line: Yet come no more, should he tarry ... Tarry! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring SPRING CAME WALKING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Spring came walking through the grass Last Line: The flowers called a holiday Subject(s): Spring SPRING CAROL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When loud by landside streamlets gush Last Line: Singing the songs of the meadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SPRING CLEANING, by SIMON JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Ah, to walk the five paces Last Line: This is spring clean Subject(s): Cleanliness; Spring SPRING CLEANING, by DEE LILLEGARD Poem Source First Line: Furniture shifted, %rugs lifted Last Line: Zoom! Help! It's heading for... %my room Subject(s): Spring SPRING COMES A-CALLING, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Spring knocks at the door of the year and cries Last Line: "I want to come in! I 've a song for you!" Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING COMES ON THE WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By a hum Variant Title(s): Poem: 1042; Poem: 99 Subject(s): Spring SPRING COMES TO LANESBORO, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: The hardwoods fade into night Last Line: Just stay here. The rest is easy Subject(s): Earth; Spring SPRING COMES TO MURRAY HILL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in an office at 244 madison avenue Last Line: Instead of being confined on madison avenue I could soar in a jiffy to second or third Subject(s): Madison Avenue, New York; Murray Hill, New York; New York City; Spring SPRING COMES WITH WAND IN HAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: With banners, trumpets, knights and all! Subject(s): Spring SPRING COMES!, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little birds, they do not heed nor care Last Line: The birds have heard it—and the birds are wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Seasons; Spring SPRING COURAGE, by MADELINE BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: The spring has come, and scillas blue Last Line: They stand up bravely, though they're drenched. Subject(s): Spring SPRING COWARDICE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am afraid to go into the woods Last Line: I am a coward, a coward, I know! Subject(s): Cowardice; Spring SPRING CURRENTS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We slip into night's deeper layers Last Line: On the madrona tree hanging over the river Subject(s): Spring SPRING DAWN, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: How many springs along my shrouded sense Last Line: To shadow . . . And to endless spring! Subject(s): Dawn; Spring; Sunrise SPRING DAY ON WEST LAKE, by LIN HO-CHING Poem Source First Line: My talent %won't compare Last Line: Become fishermen Subject(s): Spring; Zen Buddhism SPRING DAY: BATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Spring; Showers & Showering SPRING DAY: MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. Subject(s): Spring; City & Town Life SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime SPRING DAY: WALK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the street the white clouds meet, and sheer away without touching Subject(s): Spring; Walking SPRING DUSK, by XIE WUNIANG Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo cries 'blood!' reported spring's return Last Line: Pity the flowers, picking up the sweet-smelling mud Subject(s): Spring SPRING EVENING ON THE BOULEVARDS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting on a bench one evening in spring on the great boulevards Last Line: And above it all, the gentle, eternal stars Subject(s): Spring SPRING FANCIES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it's weary work to live, / it will rest us to lie dead Last Line: For all the sap of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 1. MAY DAY IN MARCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March with her madcap winds, march with her weather Last Line: Twas ever anything on earth but may! Subject(s): Faith; Fantasy; March (month); May (month); Seasons; Soul; Spring; Belief; Creed SPRING FANTASIES: 2. THE SPRING RETURNS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring returns! Not as a strange newcomer Last Line: May rest, but gypsy-like fleets on for ever. Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Nature; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 4. HORN AND VIOLIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the autumn, in the weather Last Line: But the violin for spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Love; Seasons; Soul; Spring; Fall SPRING FASHION-NOTE, by MYNA A. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: There was delicate laughter Last Line: The warmest day in spring! Subject(s): Gloves; Spring; Mittens; Muffs SPRING FEELINGS, SENT TO ZI'AN, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: The mountain road slants, the rocky steps are steep Last Line: Tears that fall in the bright light -- and this single poem Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring SPRING FEVER, by VUYELWA CARLIN Poem Source First Line: Logitek 100 %asked one day Last Line: Being slapped about %by daffoldils Subject(s): Computers; Spring SPRING FEVER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grass commence a-comin' Last Line: Dat you gits in spring. Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: We don't remember we weren't Last Line: We ran our bare feet %playing the hot cement %like drums our throats %open %and singing Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though these fresh leaves were pressing Last Line: Again with sweetness and dread Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: At the wood's edge trillium shows Last Line: By night I ride back to my lover's bed, %trailing names of flowers from the woods Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by VELMA HITCHCOCK Poem Source First Line: There in the slanting april dusk Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by HONG YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: I am a sick man Last Line: Keeping on watching the yellow fence Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by ELEANOR PHINNEY Poem Source First Line: I have been pent-up, stifled long enough! Last Line: God give me peace again, %and let me watch once more the perfect flight of gulls Subject(s): Spring SPRING FEVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soft wind / blows from the evening star Last Line: Abelard, your god was too weak for it! Subject(s): Spring; Voices; Wind SPRING FEVER, by ELINOR VAN HOUTEN Poem Text First Line: When spring comes hurrying over the hills Last Line: Just go. Subject(s): Spring SPRING FLOODS, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the first-born crocus of the spring Subject(s): Spring; Crocuses; Hope; Optimism SPRING FOR THOMAS HARDY, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the weathers hardy praised Last Line: He chiefly sings Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: BLOSSOM TIME, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long as there is april / my heart is high Last Line: Through the golden air. Subject(s): Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: FOREBODING, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I keep april Last Line: When my songs are old? Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: IN APRIL, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am life's victim Last Line: I will not bow my head! Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: WHEN THERE IS APRIL, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would fear death when there is april? Last Line: Who love her speech. Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING GATHERS IN THE GROUND BELOW ME, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Dr. Tulp's class crowds the corpse Last Line: And the blunt end of my brush uncovers it Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Spring SPRING GLADNESS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now clap your hands together Last Line: In life itself new zest! Subject(s): Spring SPRING GREETING, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All faintly through my soul to-day Last Line: Point lookout prison, 1864. Subject(s): Spring SPRING HARBINGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our mother earth is in her loom Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING HAS COME, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunbeams, lost for half a year Last Line: To dream above, to sleep below! Subject(s): Spring SPRING HAS RETURNED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has returned. The earth is Last Line: Difficult stems: she sings it. She sings Subject(s): Spring SPRING HERALDS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Some days ago / I heard a lilting meadow-lark Last Line: Re-echo nature's accolade to spring. Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Spring SPRING HYMN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant is the opening year! Last Line: Must reap the harvest time hath sown. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Harvest; Seasons; Spring SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War SPRING IN MIAMI, by RON DE MARIS Poem Source First Line: Already black olive leaves Last Line: Perched on the lip %waiting her turn Subject(s): Miami, Florida; Spring SPRING IN NAZARETH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is come!' a shepherd Last Line: Green, green, the barley and the corn! Subject(s): Christianity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long years come and go Last Line: Telling us spring has come again! Subject(s): New England; Spring; Time SPRING IN NORTH CAROLINA (1938), by RUTH HANNAS Poem Text First Line: Summer dead is best put out of sight Last Line: In disembodied dream. Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN ORIZABA, by MARIAN STORM Poem Text First Line: Those were afternoons! - with chipi-chipi falling Last Line: Kindling from its very torch that running green fire? Subject(s): Orizaba, Mexico; Spring SPRING IN RAVENNA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is up, and 'tis a morn of may Last Line: And chase the whistling brine, and swirl into the bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Ravenna, Italy; Spring SPRING IN SAINT LOUIS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't heard a robin sing Last Line: It made me know that spring is here Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN THE ALPS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are at their bacchanals Last Line: Between the earth and sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Spring; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SPRING IN THE ARIZONA DESERT, by GRACE HOFFMAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: A tempest of rain Last Line: On the desert. Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring SPRING IN THE BRONX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spring is sprung Last Line: Duh little wind in on duh boid Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Spring SPRING IN THE CITY, by GUNARS SALINS Poem Source First Line: On a day that drizzled Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN THE DESERT, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Like the rusty bronze of a copper kettle Last Line: A vulture specks the blue. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States SPRING IN THE NORTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days Last Line: You're doubly dear because you come so late. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): North, The; Spring SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town. Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese SPRING IN THE ROCKIES, by JOANNA EBERHART Poem Text First Line: Spring comes flinging / glorious gleams of gold Last Line: On lonely window panes. Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the oak the sap of life is welling Last Line: Love, love, love, and spring in the south! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Southern States; Spring; South (u.s.) SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is open windows and molly picardo Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is open windows and molly picardo Last Line: And the boys needing to stretch Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN THE SUBWAY, by ELSA GILL Poem Text First Line: In these dim corridors of shattering sound Last Line: Of cotton buttercups upon her hat. Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SPRING IN THE WESTLAND, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: It's good to be in the westland Last Line: In the westland now. Subject(s): Spring; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States SPRING IN THE WOODS, by NINA GAIL STONG Poem Text First Line: Away to the woods! Last Line: We miss those at our feet. Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Woods SPRING IN TOWN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The country ever has a lagging spring Last Line: And your loud wheels unheeded rattle by. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Spring SPRING IN VIRGINIA, by RAMONA WILSON Poem Source First Line: Come, let us walk Last Line: The river swells, a curve, %the sun smooths and shines your mouth Subject(s): Spring SPRING IN WAR TIME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the spring far off, far off Last Line: Gray death? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War SPRING IN WELLESLEY, by ELIZABETH HART PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Again the promises of spring appear Last Line: In wellesley now? Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING IN WINTER, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me there is no rarer thing Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Winter; Spring SPRING IS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Spring is when %the morning sputters like Last Line: And turn into a million daffodils %trembling in the sunshine Subject(s): Spring SPRING IS HERE, by DON C. NIXON Poem Text First Line: Winter's left us for the year Last Line: It's nice that spring is here. Subject(s): Flies; Spring SPRING IS THE PERIOD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without a cordial interview %with god Variant Title(s): Poem: 844; Poem: 94 Subject(s): Spring SPRING LANDSCAPE, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Here sways the willow Last Line: Here where the sun has taken fecund earth to wife! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPRING LAUGHS, by KATIE F. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Trim little towns in waiting Last Line: The little breezes sing. Subject(s): Laughter; Spring; Towns; Weather SPRING LEMONADE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In late april they spread manure on the fields Last Line: Something none of us had ever imagined Subject(s): Spring; Luck SPRING LONGINGS, by WANG SENG-JU Poem Source First Line: The snows are over, branches turn green Last Line: That leads me to write these songs of love Alternate Author Name(s): Seng-ju; Wang Seng-ru Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Spring SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beauteous spring I see Last Line: Making all our passion vain. Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World SPRING MAGIC, by AMY BISSETT ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Spring magic always comes on wings of song Last Line: And chase, while april smiles and sets the pace. Subject(s): Spring SPRING MARKET, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: It's foolish to bring money Last Line: Wild flower grace. Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING MEETING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hullo, bob wren! Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING MORNING, by FRANCIS WILLIAM LAUDERDALE ADAMS Poem Source First Line: What clearer than this earth and air? Subject(s): Spring SPRING MORNING, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: The day before the bluebird came Last Line: Out to eternity and back within one trill! Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING MORNING, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Adream I paced the roseate path of dawn Last Line: Lest I beheld them empty of god's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Morning; Spring SPRING MORNING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, through the open door Last Line: Outside the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Spring SPRING NIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the smothered air the wicker finds Last Line: As if day's host of flowers were a moment's whim. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English SPRING NIGHT, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: In the remains of night a sliver moon rises aboves the tranquil garden Last Line: Enduring the sight of garden forms all green Subject(s): Spring SPRING NIGHT, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: Things like littlenecks Last Line: This white row of waves it ripples Subject(s): Clams; Seashore; Spring SPRING NIGHT, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Out on killiney hill that night, you said Last Line: Nothing half-hearted or ambiguous, %but the perfect diamond of my will Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Spring SPRING NIGHT, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring night: one-quarter of an hour Last Line: Where night is deep, deep Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Night; Spring SPRING NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The park is filled with night and fog Last Line: Why am I crying after love? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SPRING NOTES FROM ROBIN HILL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 200,000 rhododendron blossoms I estimate Last Line: On the bottom Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRING ON BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make way for spring- / spring that's a stranger in the city Last Line: Make way! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING ON THE DESERT, by FRANCES HUNT PRAY Poem Text First Line: The gleaming blue of heaven deserts the sky Last Line: Its hidden soul in flowering radiance. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Full Text First Line: And the driving raindrops fell Subject(s): Prairie; Spring SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by BEATRICE PAYNE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: There is no land like this land Last Line: To feel its youth return! Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by MURIEL H. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: North's high call brought the winds Last Line: All in may. Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING ON TIMBERLINE, by GRACE MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: Elsewhere there are green trees tonight Last Line: Is beauty blowing. Subject(s): Spring SPRING PEEPERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Half-awakened by their calls eastering Last Line: For no one but themselves Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Spring SPRING PHANTOMS, by PATRICIO LAFCADIO TESSIMA CARLOS HEARN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The moon, descending her staircase of clouds in one of the 'petits poemes Last Line: Warning - and he dare not! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Spring SPRING PLAINT, by CHU SHU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: I walk alone, sit alone Last Line: I've trimmed the lamp's cold wick to the quick, but dreams won't come Subject(s): Spring SPRING PLOWING, by RUTH E. BILLEY Poem Text First Line: With restive thoughts I watch the ploughman on an upland field Last Line: Spring harrowing would find new peace upspringing here and now. Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; Spring SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: From snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring; Pools; Ponds SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: These flowery waters and these watery flowers %from snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring SPRING PROMISE, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Though winter's wrinkled hand Last Line: And pussy willows bloom with birds %seranading budding debutantes Subject(s): Growth; Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING QUIET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone were but the winter Last Line: "though far off it be." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 1 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring SPRING RAIN, by MARCHETTE CHUTE Poem Source First Line: The storm came up so very quick Last Line: I fell into a river once %but this is even better Subject(s): Spring SPRING RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smoke of our campfire lowers Last Line: The throb and hiss of the rain Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Rain; Spring SPRING RAPTURE, by CLARA MAY MASSEY Poem Text First Line: For long has the earth been sleeping Last Line: Till it reaches the blue dome of the sky. Subject(s): Spring SPRING RAPTURE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the spring's exultant joy Last Line: The green revival of the grass? Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING SALMON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: It's oh, but I'm dreaming Last Line: When the green plover call! Subject(s): Spring SPRING SCENE IN THE COUNTRY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing, skipping, shaking back Last Line: Youth to train is this, good mothers! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Country Life; Spring SPRING SEQUENCE, by WARD RITCHIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You carried the scent of your garden Last Line: For memory. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SIGNS, by LYDIA HAMMOND GALE Poem Text First Line: When trippant spring Last Line: Spring miracle. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SIGNS OUT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The trees have hung their spring signs / out Last Line: "the news: ""spring is here! Spring is here!" Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Lenten is come with love to toune Last Line: "this wunne wele I wol forgon, / ant wight in wode be fleme" Variant Title(s): Spring Has Come Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As my eyes Last Line: I feel the summer in the spring Variant Title(s): Chippewa Music: A Song Of Spring Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by JEAN ANTOINE DE BAIF Poem Text First Line: Idle winter's colde Last Line: With the season's whim? Subject(s): Seasons; Spring SPRING SONG, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: There was a child who tried to run Last Line: Was always half a field away. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs SPRING SONG, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am made strange again Last Line: I let the whole earth shine and grow. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love daffodils Last Line: "in the spring-time of flowers." Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRING SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bluebell springs upon the ledge Last Line: Of spring, spring, spring! Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Spring; Negroes; American Blacks SPRING SONG, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly at dawn a whisper stole Last Line: And let the thrushes out to-day. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by HERMANN HESSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cries every night Last Line: Forever goes thy way. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Spring SPRING SONG, by PEARL HOGREFE Poem Text First Line: At dawn I sniff a crisp but friendly air Last Line: Until its eyes are dying in dusky night. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL Poem Text First Line: Do you smell the coming of spring in the breeze? Last Line: Like sunny spring days in the great out-of-doors? Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING SONG, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY Poem Text First Line: Spring came liltingly along Last Line: Was it my own heart I heard singing? Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Say we are in a purple spring Last Line: Slowly undress their winter wools Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sage this scheme indorses: make Last Line: Demijohns. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring SPRING SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is here, and the long nights grow Last Line: And the spring is here -- the spring is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; Spring SPRING SONG, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou and spring together came Last Line: When lies dead may's offering. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When a song is in the wind Last Line: When a song is in the wind. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRING SONG, by GRACE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: Spring in his green vest strides the hill Last Line: Like a dancing girl on a silver wire. Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went up the avenue Last Line: "and keep spring away." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old mother earth woke up from her sleep Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Awake,' said the sunshine, ''tis time to get up' Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING SONG (1), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake early to the early robin Last Line: It is spring Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG (1), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake early to the early robin Last Line: It is spring Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG (2), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember by morning when the sun Last Line: Thunder's artillery m\named the name of this spring Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG (2), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember by morning when the sun Last Line: Thunder's artillery named the name of this spring Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG IN FALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In my dark age, I know better Last Line: Or flowers opening for the bee's blast, %ever to be april's fool is my desire Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Children; Flowers; Spring SPRING SONG IN THE CITY, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who remains in london Last Line: All is light and motion! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): London; Spring SPRING SONG: TO IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep no more, heart of my heart, no more Last Line: And the spring—the spring is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; Irish SPRING SONGS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The rivulet beneath the brae Last Line: As by thy voice,—thou happy-hearted child! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring SPRING SOWS HER SEEDS: NINETEEN EIGHTEEN, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why are you doing it this year, spring? Last Line: O the crop of pain that is growing! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Spring SPRING STORM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has given over Last Line: Of the overhanging embankment. Subject(s): Spring; Storms SPRING STRAINS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds Last Line: Flung outward and up -- disappearing suddenly! Subject(s): Spring SPRING THOUGHTS, by FLORENCE E. BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Come, my soul, let us haste to the open Last Line: Come, live and laugh, work and sing. Subject(s): Spring SPRING THOUGHTS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the grass in yen is still jade thread Last Line: What is it doing in my gauze bedcurtains? Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Spring SPRING THOUGHTS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man grows sick of the walls of brick, and Last Line: "toil, when the woodland's calling me!" Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Spring; Woods SPRING THOUGHTS: 1, by ZHANG YAOTIAO Poem Source First Line: Out in the dooryard: plum trees Last Line: Beaks filled with clay %for their nest Subject(s): Spring SPRING THOUGHTS: 2, by ZHANG YAOTIAO Poem Source First Line: This phoenix tree beside the well Last Line: How would I know? Subject(s): Spring SPRING TO THE POORHOUSE, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Once when spring came these eyes were lifted up Last Line: Know only that she brings hot days, and flies. Subject(s): Kindness; Poorhouses; Spring; Youth; Workhouses SPRING TONIC, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds obscure the glory Last Line: And more enduring and bright, like diamond Subject(s): Spring; Thought SPRING TWILIGHT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun set late, and left along the west Last Line: The first far whippoorwill. Subject(s): Spring SPRING UNDER THE CYPRESSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cypresses, here in the stony Last Line: Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Italy; Spring; Italians SPRING VIEW, by TRAN NHAN-TONG Poem Source First Line: The willows trail such glory that the birds are struck dumb Last Line: But to lean on the balustrade and watch the turquoise sky Subject(s): Spring SPRING VIEW, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain. Last Line: So scarce that I try in vain to fasten them with a pin Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Grief; Spring SPRING WAKING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground Last Line: " 'tis spring!"" laughed the sun, "" 'tis spring!" Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Robins; Spring SPRING WATER, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: The valley held a pond, %the ruddy brick farmhouse, cows on the slope Last Line: At the end, it was a fox that came %to curl like a knot in the ravel Subject(s): Spring SPRING WILL COME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The sun called down to the northwind 'back!' Last Line: And spring has come! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons; Spring SPRING WILL COME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring will come to help me: she'll be Last Line: Naught she cares for harvest that lies so far away. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight SPRING WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O full-voiced herald of immaculate spring Last Line: And heard june's leaf-like murmur of sweet words? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wind SPRING WIND, SELS., by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: The wind I love the best Last Line: While everything glistens, and everything sings %in the spring wind %after the rain Subject(s): Spring SPRING WINDS, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: The young wind comes riding down the rosy slopes of dawn Last Line: Of spring winds at dawn. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Spring SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air Last Line: "behold me! I am may!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World SPRING'S ARRIVAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All the birds have come again Last Line: Come with joyous singing Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S BEDFELLOW, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring went about the woods today Last Line: Begat an earthly bliss. Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S IMMORTALITY, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buds awake at touch of spring Last Line: And stilled our love in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S NEBRASKA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's nebraska / is no eyelet damsel but a bawd Last Line: Prisms through the air. Subject(s): Nebraska; Spring SPRING'S RETURN, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text First Line: Again spring fairy garments brings Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S RETURN, by MENG SHU CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Water brimming with pear pearls pats the riverbank Last Line: Heedless of human sorrow in his cries Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Shuqing; Recluse Of Mount Jing Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S UNFOLDING, by IRENE ARCHER Poem Text First Line: Everything is tender in the spring Last Line: Runs with wet, sweet lips through silver rain. Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S WELCOME, FR. ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE, by JOHN LYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bird so sings, yet so does wail? Last Line: Cuckoo! To welcome in the spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John Variant Title(s): Welcome To Spring;the Spring;trico's Song Subject(s): Spring SPRING'S WOOING, by NELLIE BRISTOW Poem Text First Line: Spring smiled this morning Last Line: Spring must pass. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, 1918, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never longed so hungrily for spring Last Line: Of gallant failures like gallipoli. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the flute! Last Line: Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year. Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring SPRING, WANTING HER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spring, thou turn'st with all thy goodly train Last Line: While thine forgot lie closed in a tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Spring Bereaved: 2 Subject(s): Spring SPRING-BLOSSOMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little daisies, two by two Last Line: His lovely immortality. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Spring SPRING-SONG, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN Poem Text First Line: Spring comes earliest in flower-shops Last Line: For spring is here! Subject(s): Spring SPRING-SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air was full of sun and birds Last Line: A mere affair of weather? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Spring SPRING-TIME, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For once the zephyrs have removed the cold Last Line: Some scantling buds, like ill-set gems, unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Flowers; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Spring SPRING-TIME, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet in the green spring Last Line: Of leaves and flowers and zephyrs go again Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SPRING. SANDRO BOTTICELLI. THE ACCADEMIA OF FLORENCE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus is sad among the wanton powers Last Line: Beholds the mead with all the dancers gone Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings And Painters; Spring SPRING. THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First in these fields I try the sylvan strains Last Line: And from the pleiads fruitful show'rs descend. Subject(s): Spring SPRING; A NEW VERSION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle spring! Ethereal mildness come! Last Line: And that is blighted! Subject(s): Spring SPRING; WRITTEN WHILE A PRISONER IN ENGLAND, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The time hath laid his mantle by Last Line: For time hath laid his mantle by. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Spring SPRINGLET, by JOSE ZORILLA Poem Source First Line: Hasting on, the springlet flows Last Line: Engulfed forevermore? Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Waterfalls SPRINGTIDE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All deep there stirs the throb of spring Last Line: And breaks—unanswered, and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRINGTIDE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver birch, with pure-green flickering leaves Last Line: With that exultant joy whose name is spring. Subject(s): Spring SPRINGTIDE OF THE SOUL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh to fragrant whitening of the bough Last Line: Deep meanings, silent, 'mid earth's melodies. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Spring; Thought; Thinking SPRINGTIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lenten ys come with love to toune [or, town]" Last Line: Ant wyht in wode be fleme Variant Title(s): Spring-tide Subject(s): Spring SPRINGTIME, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Month of roses. My poems Last Line: The sweet season of spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring SPRINGTIME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again it is the vibrant may Last Line: Find incomplete the day, and long. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Spring SPRINGTIME, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The red eyes of rabbits Last Line: Will bare their teeth at %the spring moon Subject(s): Spring SPRINGTIME IN COOKHAM DEAN, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How marvellous and fair a thing Last Line: Where spring performs her miracle. Subject(s): Cookham Dean, England; Spring SPRINGTIME SNACKS, by ANTOINETTE ALBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Limbs of magnolia blossoms Last Line: All served on a tablecloth of %green velvet lawns Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRNG DAY: BREAKFAST TABLE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white Subject(s): Spring; Food & Eating; Morning ST GEORGE'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbert: I hear the lark and linnet sing Last Line: Of england and the english spring! Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; English STARS ARE COMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See, the stars are coming Subject(s): Nature; Spring STAY, SPRING, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, spring, for by this ruthless haste Last Line: Or I might never turn to look your way Subject(s): Spring STEPHANOTIS, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO Poem Text First Line: You lovely flower / exquisitely fair Last Line: Little princess of tropical flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume; Spring STRANGE SPRING, by CHARLOTTE WISE Poem Text First Line: I never knew that spring could be like this Last Line: Somewhere beyond my life's parenthesis. Subject(s): Spring STREET MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how the dance-tune trips it through the street Last Line: From a bleared woman, sick and old and sad! Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Spring; Streets; Avenues SUBWAY POEM, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yo, spring Last Line: And your sweet ass Subject(s): Spring SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: SPRING, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king Last Line: Spring! The sweet spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): Spring Song;the Birds In Spring;song Of Ver And His Train;spring Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Nature; Spring; Dead, The SUMMONS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eager night and the impetuous winds Last Line: Seeking the lost cause and the brave defeat. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Aging; Messengers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Voices SUN IS A GLOBE OF FIRE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Water tinkles on the marble fountain Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Spring SUNBEAMS, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON Poem Source First Line: Now, what shall I send to the eartrh today? Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie Subject(s): Nature; Spring SUNBEAMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Merry little sunbeams Subject(s): Nature; Spring SUNDAY REVERY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond my dingy window pane Last Line: Thy blessing on my head! Subject(s): Nature; Sabbath; Spring; Sunday SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean SUNRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the wind and the sunlight of april and Last Line: Forever. Subject(s): Dawn; Seasons; Spring; Sunrise SUNSHINE'S CARESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the little brown cradles Subject(s): Nature; Spring SWALLOW, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift goes the sooty swallow o'er the heath Last Line: Its daily twittering is a song to spring Subject(s): Spring; Swallows SWIFTS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring comes little, a little. All april it rains Subject(s): Spring; Legends SYMPATHY (1), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tear another's tears bring forth Last Line: A touch of the divine. Subject(s): Spring; Sympathy; Empathy TA SUO XING: EARLY SPRING, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Fragrant grasses are just sprouting Last Line: May the moon's tracks not reach that deep, deep spot Subject(s): Spring TAKING AWAY THE BANKING, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When march winds carried prophecies of june Last Line: When all the hills of god kept holiday. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers TAOYUAN YI GUREN: LATE SPRING, by JI YINGHUAI Poem Source First Line: Out front, flowers dance with the east wind Last Line: Lie strewn across the hengtang road Subject(s): Spring TARDY SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the north wind ceases Last Line: And earth's green banner shakes. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind TELL ME, ROBIN, by MONA RABUN REEVES Poem Source First Line: Robin, robin, tell me why Last Line: I agree. This way's just fine. %you do your thing. I'll do mine Subject(s): Spring TENDER THINGS, by MARGARET HORSCH STEVENS Poem Text First Line: My heart is reaching out Last Line: In the spring. Subject(s): Spring TEXAS WISTERIA, by DAVID WATTS Poem Source First Line: It's almost here now, %spring's achievement Last Line: Simply to break forth in passion? Subject(s): Growth; Spring; Wisteria THAT SPRING, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river was fast Last Line: The solo of a solo of a solo Subject(s): Nature; Spring THAW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Spring THAW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed Last Line: What we below could not see, winter pass Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Spring THAW IN THE CITY, by LOU LIPSITZ Poem Source First Line: Now my legs begin to walk Subject(s): Spring THE AIRS OF SPRING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetly breathing, vernal air Last Line: To bind him an iron chain. Subject(s): Spring THE ALL-GOLDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through every happy line I sing Last Line: Of time's all-golden yesterdays! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Spring; Woods THE ALMOND TREE, by READ BAIN Poem Text First Line: In the dusk before the dawning Last Line: Be all later life shall save? Subject(s): Almond Trees; Nature; Spring; Trees THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 7. THE REVULSION, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when the spousal time of may Last Line: Which lay so heavy on my heart. Subject(s): Spring THE ANNUNCIATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God whispered and a silence fell; the world Last Line: Upon its first sweet day of blossoming. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Spring; Paradise THE BANDRUIDH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My robe is of green Last Line: The sweet sound of the south! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Metaphor; Nature; Spring; Similes THE BARD'S ANNUAL DEFIANCE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring on the spring-I am wearied Last Line: Make for the sake of the sound of the thing! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BELLS OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of youth are ringing in the gate Last Line: And is singing, singing, singing thro' the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Spring; Youth; Songs THE BIRD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Only a bird in a cage Last Line: "I thank thee, bird — dear bird." Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BIRTH OF SPRING, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: The birth of spring, with ambient sunshine, revives Last Line: And sunshine, birds and rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, when all was still Last Line: To listen—to the watchman bawling! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Passion; Perfume; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World THE BLACKBIRD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ov all the birds upon the wing Last Line: Where I do hear the blackbird's zong. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BLUEBIRD, by WILLIAM P. ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: One bird I know, that haunts the blissful / scene Last Line: A benediction, when the bluebird sings! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Spring THE BLUEBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the very spring Last Line: He is off, he is mutely whelmed in the southern haze! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; March (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BLUEBIRD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am so blithe and glad to-day! Last Line: Full swift the hours lead on to may! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; New Hampshire; Spring THE BOHEMIA OF THE HEART AND PENNY ROMANCES: MEUDON, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The blue eyes of a clementine, her white arms raised, in brilliant light Last Line: That our dreams alone retain and that already are forgot! Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man in winter is the source of spring Last Line: The dead man in winter is in heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Paradise THE BROKEN WING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great dawn breaks, the mournful night is past Last Line: And scale the stars upon my broken wing! Subject(s): Life; Rebirth; Spring THE BROOK: SPRING, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Dogwood blossoms fleck the brook Last Line: Into a pool, once bridged by men. Subject(s): Dogwood; Spring THE BUDS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I can see Last Line: To whisper to. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spring THE BUSH-SPARROW, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere wild-haws, looming in the glooms Last Line: She comes, the darling duchess, spring!' Subject(s): Spring THE CALL OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the spring wakes anew Last Line: Like glad-hearted children together. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring THE CALL OF SPRING, by GWENDOLYN SMITH Poem Text First Line: When the measured dance of hours Last Line: Love it -- live it -- nature's call! Subject(s): Spring THE CALL OF THE ROAD, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet may it is come, and the trees are in bloom Last Line: Ah, wherefore so lovely, wide world of my dreams? Subject(s): Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE CAMEL-RIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is no thing in all the world but love Last Line: "other than this, my song of love to thee" Subject(s): Hearts;love;spring THE CARDINAL, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: I hear him singing, loud and gay Last Line: Is just a red flash in the tree. Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE CHILDREN, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring! - almost summer! The winter's gone Last Line: The first of all who shall gather there! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Socialism; Spring; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHIMNEY NEST, by MARY BARKER (CARTER) DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dainty, delicate swallow-feather Last Line: Or not the whole I may understand. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Spring THE CHRIST-LIKE SPRING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever thou dost come Last Line: Reclothed and strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Spring THE CLOUD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers Last Line: I rise and upbuild it again. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Spring THE COCK, by HERMAN FETZER Poem Text First Line: Give me a hot summer Last Line: Says the cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Falstaff, Jake Subject(s): Chickens; Cock-fighting; Spring; Summer THE COMING OF LOVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know? Shall I hear love / pass Last Line: "and a fear that whispered, ""love is come!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE COMING OF SPRING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How I have watched thy coming, spring Last Line: Must laugh outright for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Spring THE COMING OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring! I cannot run to greet Last Line: Forgive me, o my comrade spring! Subject(s): Birth; Leaves; Life; Nature; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery THE COMING OF SPRING, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in the air Last Line: Make young again the earth. Subject(s): Spring THE COMING OF SPRING: MADRID, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is come back, and the little voices are calling Last Line: I know not, but I have forgotten the meaning of spring. Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Spring THE COMMONWEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight hundred years and twenty-one Last Line: Acclaims this jubilee. Subject(s): Freedom; Nature; Spring; Liberty THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night Last Line: By hosts of unknown men. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares THE COURT JESTER'S LAST REPORT TO THE KING, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sire! My sire! Your castle's on fire Subject(s): Spring THE CROCUS BED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow as the noonday sun Last Line: Crocuses must leave us soon. Subject(s): Crocuses; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters THE CURRENT, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having once put his hand into the ground Last Line: His hand in the dark as by a hand Subject(s): Spring THE DEATH OF WINTER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When april with her wild blue eye Last Line: On the dawning brows of maiden may. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE DESERTED GARDEN, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where robins walked with mincing steps Last Line: To robins in my face. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Robin Hood; Spring THE DYING CHILD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could not die when trees were green Last Line: He died so quietly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Spring; Death - Babies THE EAGLE FLIES; A SONNET SEQUENCE: 7. FORECAST, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a summer flame I knew, a slim Last Line: The splendors of long springs budding in love. Subject(s): Spring THE ELM TREE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old giant from the days we call primeval Last Line: Through hope's bright portal in the happy west. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Desolation; Elm Trees; Spring THE ENCHANTED SPRING, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er golden sands my waters flow Last Line: Come! Sip it freshly as it flows. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Water THE ENKINDLED SPRING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green Last Line: Less that the wind that runs to the flamy call! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Spring THE FAERY ISLE OF JANJIRA; TO HER HIGHNESS NAZLI RAFFIA, BEGUM JANJIRA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I dwell in your faery kingdom Last Line: When truth shall conquer and love prevail. Subject(s): Love; Peace; Spring THE FAIRY SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I know where the flowers go Last Line: And school is out at last! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Schools; Spring; Childhood; Students THE FALSE SPRING, by RICHARD FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is important to you?' she said. 'what is Subject(s): Spring THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come, blest spirit! Wheresoe'er thou art Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Seeds; Cheese; Sheep; Agriculture; Farmers THE FAUN'S CALL IN THE WOODS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early in spring, / when the woods shine Last Line: As it must one day. Subject(s): Birds; Spring THE FIREFLY LAMPS, by ARLETTA B. GRAVES Poem Text First Line: There must have been fairies in that magic place Last Line: We'd breath a prayer that our lights would keep. Subject(s): Fairies; Lamps; Spring; Elves THE FIRST FLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages, on our river borders Last Line: Were real, or the rhymer's dream! Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Spring; Trees THE FIRST SINGING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall come one evening to god's house on the hill Last Line: And the thrush and the blackbird their song in the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight THE FIRST SKYLARK OF SPRING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two worlds hast thou to dwell in, sweet Last Line: And human dies divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Spring; Skylarks THE FIRST SPRING DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet Last Line: Till I too blossom and rejoice and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring THE FIRST SPRING DAY IN LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On rainbow-rifted clouds, / on dingy-hearted crowds Last Line: Eternal life, sets free earth's spell-bound thralls. Subject(s): London; Love; Spring THE FIRST THRUSH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thrush begins again Last Line: In earth's fields long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Thrushes THE FLOWER CHILDREN UNDERGROUND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For spring is here, it's surely here! Subject(s): Children; Wingter; Spring THE FLOWER THAT FEELS NOT SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the prisons dark of the circling bark Last Line: If it waft me, o fanny, my daughter, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a day when april's in and spring walks Last Line: They die in the echoes down the hollow. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Flutes; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE FOOTFARER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that spring is in the land Last Line: Now that spring is in the land. Subject(s): Mothers; Spring THE GARDENER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, I have seen him wander in Last Line: "it would reply: ""my master is this gardener." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Spring THE GARDENS OF ADONIS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, I would tell a ghostly thing Last Line: And we, the summer long, shall bring thee flowers. Subject(s): Adonis; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spring THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 3. ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let spring illume the western hills with blossoming / brands of fire Last Line: Swept o'er the flood-gates of my life to drown my waiting heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Spring THE GENESIS OF BUTTERFLIES, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers Last Line: Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies. Subject(s): Love; Spring THE GLADNESS OF SPRING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring, with blossom-haunted lanes Last Line: Could hush a soul's discordant word? Subject(s): Birds; Spring THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass so little has to do Last Line: I wish I were a hay! Subject(s): Grass; Spring THE GRASS COMES, by A. JEAN HOLMES Poem Text First Line: The grass, the glad green grass Last Line: Has washed away the brown. Subject(s): April; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GREEN LADY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey spring twilight, the mild light, the shy light Last Line: Comes and goes like a mist of green, a gentle ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Green (color); Spring THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, by NAN TERRELL REED Poem Text First Line: Just around the bend of winter Last Line: In the half-way house of spring. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE HAPPY ISLES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comes the spring in those far lands of yours? Last Line: And on their crest the calm of sunset. Subject(s): Islands; Soul; Spring; Tears THE HOPES OF SPRING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There's a mellow warmth in the soft south wind Last Line: Tis the land where the sun-sprites smile. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 14. YOUTH'S SPRING-TRIBUTE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dear Last Line: With whom cold hearts are counted castaway. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Spring THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 83. BARREN SPRING, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns Last Line: The white cup shrivels round the golden heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Barren Spring Subject(s): Spring THE HYACINTHS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the good ashplant; stuff the old grey cap Last Line: Leap up with immortality in your breast! Subject(s): Country Life; Spring THE IMP OF SPRING-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the eaves where the sunbeams fall Last Line: Let him deceive me! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time THE INSIDE CHANCE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dance like a jackrabbit / in the dunegrass, dance Last Line: Like thousands of waving hands Subject(s): Spring THE IVORY GATE; AN UNFINISHED DRAFT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand buds are breaking / their prisons silently Last Line: The snow falls by thousands into the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Spring THE JOY OF THE SPRINGTIME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Springtime, o springtime, what is your essence Last Line: The roots of delight in the heart of the earth? Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight THE KEEPERS OF THE TREASURE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because we dare behold the sun Last Line: Of an unguessed awakening. Subject(s): Spring; Strength; Treasures THE KINGDOM OF THE SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh ho, the robin and the spring! Last Line: All the woodland is a kingdom with a little child for king! Subject(s): Children; Robins; Spring; Childhood THE LAST SPRING, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The first glad token of the spring is here Last Line: How it will be in that perpetual spring! Subject(s): Spring THE LAST STILE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I came to that first stile Last Line: And spoke no word at all. Subject(s): God; Kisses; Spring THE LATE SPRING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood alone amidst the april fields Last Line: "I am his own, -- doth not my father care?" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Variant Title(s): The Spring Is Late Subject(s): Adversity; Spring THE LAUGHERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring! / and her hidden bugles up the street Last Line: Hailing the spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Spring THE LAWYER'S INVOCATION TO SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays Last Line: Hail, as aforesaid, coming spring! Subject(s): Ingenuity; Law & Lawyers; Spring; Attorneys THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF SPRING ONCE AGAIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is always like what it used to be' Last Line: Reached us Subject(s): City & Town Life; Spring THE LITTLE PLANT, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: In the heart of a seed Last Line: Outside world might be. Subject(s): Spring THE LOST PATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone they walked - their fingers knit Last Line: Was leading safely on to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Spring; Paradise; Paths; Trails THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is early this year Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring THE LOVELINESS OF SPRING, by GIUSEPPE PARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Are pitiful and kind Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Love THE LOVER-IN APRIL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast come back to me! Last Line: In the dear hyacinth and white anemone! Subject(s): April; Spring THE LYRE OF SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song in the forest is ringing Last Line: "repeats your ""wood notes wild." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring THE MAGIC OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my heart so deep, so deep Last Line: "is it the spring, the spring?" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Rebirth; Spring; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MAGNOLIA TREE, by EASTER ROHRER BECKER Poem Text First Line: Just a gorgeous bouquet of blossoms Last Line: When its green leaves unfold. Subject(s): Magnolias; Spring; Winter THE MAID IN LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where she be, and yet Last Line: But only I sit here and moan. Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MAY DAY GARLAND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though folks no more go maying Last Line: Hid up his scythe in flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English THE MEADOW LARK, by J. A. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Chirping songster, sprightly fellow Last Line: To the inmost heart of me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring THE MEADOWS IN SPRING, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Tis a dull sight / to see the year dying Last Line: The meadows again! Variant Title(s): Old Song;for A New Year's Eve;song Of The Year Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MIRACLE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sweetheart, listen, for I have a thing Last Line: The everlasting miracle of spring. Subject(s): Spring THE NECESSARY GODDESS, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Spring THE NEW MOON, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you shiver? Has the air grown chill? Last Line: There is no light could make your eyes more blue! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Light; Moon; Spring; Tides THE NORTHERN SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soft breath of spring goes forth Last Line: Where tears of sorrow never flowed. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is 'the old home by the mill' - fer we still call it so Last Line: I'd jest crawl in my grave and pull the green grass over me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Graves; Home; Mills And Millers; Spring; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD MEADOW SPRING, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the red-top blooming in the / sun Last Line: And be a boy at the meadow spring. Subject(s): Spring; Water THE OLD PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well! This is a comfort, now - the air is mild as may Last Line: There can't be rivers there and fields, without some sort o' farm! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Farm Life; Pennsylvania; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD POET, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will be glad because it is the spring Last Line: Nor think on squandered springtimes that have been. Subject(s): Spring THE ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women THE PARTING AND THE COMING GUEST, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who watched the worn-out winter die? Last Line: I think the coming sped the parting guest. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Winter THE PARTRIDGE, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List the booming from afar Last Line: And spring is spring in very deed. Subject(s): Partridge; Spring THE PASSING OF A ZEPHYR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from, and out of, and over the Last Line: Of amiable calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Wind; Woods THE PATH-FLOWER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A red-cap sang in bishop's wood Last Line: I watched her vanishing. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Forests; Gifts & Giving; Spring; Strangers; Woods THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would have holiday - outworn Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 24, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new year ends a year of sorrow Last Line: Who can sleep past dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Holidays; New Year; Spring THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE RETURN OF SPRING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I passed through death's unconscious birth Last Line: To the dawning light of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees THE POND, PORCH-VIEW: SIX P.M., EARLY SPRING, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I sit, and sit, and will my thoughts Last Line: Who am I kidding? Here I am Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Spring THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I am the prairie singer Last Line: I am the prairie singer. Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains THE PROMISE OF SPRING, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O day of god, thou bringest back Last Line: His sweet and silent ways. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Spring THE QUEST OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been waiting long Last Line: Is the summer here again. Subject(s): Birds; Life; May (month); Nature; Spring; Summer THE QUESTION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way Last Line: That I might there present it! -- oh! To whom? Variant Title(s): A Dream Of Spring;a Dream Of The Unknown;shelley's Lists Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Rivers; Spring; Planting; Planters THE RAINBOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies built a bridge Last Line: From here to far-away. Subject(s): April; Rain; Rainbows; Spring THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All through the blood-red autumn Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers THE RED HOUSE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide fields the water gleams like / snow Last Line: Outbraves the mortal threat of the hanging hill. Subject(s): Spring THE RETURN, by LUCIA STEVENS DE MOTTE Poem Text First Line: Now you are gone Last Line: My hushed heart waits for you. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Spring; Separation; Isolation THE RETURN OF SPRING, by DENYS PYRANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All nature doth the sun adorn Last Line: Good people, do not blame me for't. Subject(s): Spring THE RIVER CLWYD IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cambrian river! With slow music gliding Last Line: Brightly its waves may reach their parentdeep at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Clwyd (river), Wales; Spring; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE SEASONS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In springtime life from out the earth Last Line: And loving hearts surround. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Seasons; Spring THE SECRET, by READ BAIN Poem Text First Line: Shall I seem silly speaking some of spring Last Line: The black manure -- the white killarney rose! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Spring THE SECRET, by MABEL HILL Poem Text First Line: Insistent chickadees are crying Last Line: Across the snowswept field! Subject(s): Spring THE SECRET (1), by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: On that first day so singular Last Line: "you'll know!" Subject(s): Spring THE SECRET OF THE SPRING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and still the moonlight lies Last Line: Shall learn the secret of the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Memory; Spring THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MARCH, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thomalin, why sytten we soe Last Line: Yts time to hast us homeward. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love; March (month); Spring THE SIBYL, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, the old earth is young again! Last Line: That all their doubts have left behind!) Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Spring THE SICK-ROOM, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit is treading the earth Last Line: And a heap of ashes gray. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Spring; World THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens Last Line: Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade Subject(s): Sports; Spring THE SONGSTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a plaintive note, and long Last Line: That his breast was born for song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Robins; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE SOUL OF SPRING, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds blow, / and the snow Last Line: To bid us rise anew and grow. Subject(s): Spring THE SOUL'S AWAKENING, by JOHN EDWARD COLBURN Poem Text First Line: I pressed mine ear close to the warm, brown earth Last Line: And all my heart prepared for blossoming. Alternate Author Name(s): Colburn, John Subject(s): Soul; Spring THE SPIRIT OF SPRING, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: From the perilous, pale, silent snows Last Line: I am spring! Subject(s): Spring THE SPRING, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wintry weather's al a-done Last Line: When god wood gie us zunsheen. Subject(s): Spring THE SPRING, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you be absent here, I needs must say Last Line: This is for beasts, and that for men the spring. Subject(s): Love; Spring THE SPRING, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how the spring courts thee, emaphilis Last Line: What wonder that my youthful flood consume? Subject(s): Spring THE SPRING, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spring up-sparkles in the silent forest Last Line: Light of the soul, o beauty! Subject(s): Beauty; Spring THE SPRING, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Why, gentle spring, why hide away Last Line: "even as now they still are thine." Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Pleasure; Spring THE SPRING CALL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it made me drop the spade and lift me head to look again? Last Line: "ah, clap a primrose in your cap and throw the spade away." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Wind THE SPRING EPHEMERALS, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she comes with her face to be kissed Subject(s): Spring; Love THE SPRING FEVER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There's a witchery to the winds that shiver so Last Line: Underneath the sleepy-headed summer trees. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan! Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; First World War THE SPRING IS COME AGAIN NOT AS AT FIRST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Peace on my brow now marked with many a line Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring THE SPRING IS HERE (1), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I miss you sweet! The spring is here Last Line: I miss you, sweet, though spring is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Spring THE SPRING IS HERE (2), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the kindness of the lengthening days Last Line: I'll warm me at the strong fires of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Spring THE SPRING JOURNEY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Green was the corn as I rode on my way Last Line: And our tears add a charm to the prospect of heaven! Subject(s): Nature; Spring THE SPRING MINSTRELS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Hark! How the welkin rings Last Line: Is evening's calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Minstrels; Spring THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On fields of france the violets are fair Last Line: Beyond the wistful limit of our spring! Subject(s): Death; Spring; Dead, The THE SPRING RACE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Said the wee yellow crocus with hurrying / feet Last Line: How the old places looked and what beautiful weather! Subject(s): April; Spring; Weather THE SPRING RUNNING, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' skies still are cold and grey Last Line: I swoon asleep in the dusky wold. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Youth THE SPRINGTIME, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The red eyes of rabbits Subject(s): Spring THE SPRINGTIME'S PALLID LANDSCAPE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When sacrament is done Subject(s): Spring THE START, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When dogs play in the sun outdoors Last Line: The whole wide world can be my home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Spring THE STUBBLE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this sad void all that is left of spring Last Line: About me sounds the rumor of the spring! Subject(s): Spring THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, april, she with mellow showers Last Line: More wealth brings in, then all those three. Variant Title(s): The Four Sweet Months Subject(s): April; July; June; Spring; Summer THE SUNBOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spray of song that springs in april, light of Last Line: Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray. Subject(s): Dawn; Spring; Summer; Sunrise THE SWEET O' THE YEAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the frog, all lean and weak Last Line: Welcome in the sweet o' the year. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE SWORD IN ITS SCABBARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sword is sheathed in its scabbard Last Line: And cherish such heroes true. Subject(s): Life; Soldiers; Spring THE SYLVAN MUSICIAN, by CYRIL A. LINGEMANN Poem Text First Line: High in his forest organ loft Last Line: Sweet snatches of quaint woodland lore. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Organs (musical Instruments); Spring THE THRALL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloof, I heard / the rise and dip note of the oven-bird Last Line: It doth not hold me thrall! Subject(s): Spring THE TOUCH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Age-old, age-silent, nature queen Last Line: Wavers along the boughs. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Touch (sense) THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN: SPRING, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the lusty spring is seen Last Line: Ladies, if not plucked, we die!' Variant Title(s): Spring Time And Love;love's Emblems Subject(s): Spring THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago, in the sweet spring weather Last Line: We will hunt for spring's sweet blooms together. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Arbutus; Flowers; Spring; Mayflowers THE TRAITOR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Fain would I drive away the image of the spring. Each day of lilacs Last Line: Thee? Subject(s): Betrayal; Hearts; Sin; Spring THE TRAVELLER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When march was master of furrow and fold Last Line: "the gate is open -- be quick, be quick." Subject(s): Daffodils; March (month); Spring THE TREE, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee when thy swelling buds appear Last Line: On stars that brighter beam, when most we need their love. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Trees THE TREE ACROSS THE ROAD, by ELIZABETH KELTY BEITEL Poem Text First Line: God never made a fairer thing! Last Line: Of autumn, in the wood. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons; Spring; Trees; Fall THE TREE-LOVER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in the sweet may weather Last Line: And the young bloom on the trellis! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Love; Spring; Trees THE TRENCHES, SELS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in canada now that spring / is merry Last Line: Proud the life that shields you from the flaming wind of war! Subject(s): Canada; Flowers; Spring; Canadians THE TRYST OF SPRING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern winter sought the hand of spring Last Line: Before his sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Spring THE TURN O' THE YEAR, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time when bit by bit Last Line: And love stirs in a heart I know. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Spring THE TYROLESE SPRING SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meadows rejoice in their verdure so bright Last Line: The world in its beauty and gladness to know. Subject(s): Spring THE UNCONSUMING FIRE, by BETTY PAGE DABNEY Poem Text First Line: The young leaves spring Last Line: Incorporeal light. Subject(s): Leaves; Spring; Summer THE UNKNOWN EARTH, by PAUL SANDOZ Poem Text First Line: In the cold rain the scents of spring will hurt Last Line: And every worm is cool and green and proud. Subject(s): Earth; Spring; World THE VIGIL OF VENUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To-morrow - what news of to-morrow? Last Line: "loved, love anew, / to-morrow! - to-morrow!" Subject(s): Fantasy;love;spring THE VOICE OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come, I come! Ye have called me long Last Line: And the flowers are not death's -- fare ye well, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Spring; Parting THE VOICE OF SPRING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When birds salute the loitering dawn Last Line: Shall blossom once again, if never else on earth. Subject(s): Spring THE VOICE OF SPRING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the voice of spring Last Line: Our spring is nigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Spring THE WAKING OF SRING, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Spirit of spring, thy coverlet of snow Last Line: Wings wave above thee, thou awakened bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Spring THE WAKING YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady red upon [or, amid] the hill Last Line: Were nothing very odd! Subject(s): Spring THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Text First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade Last Line: Be its bridal torch! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The THE WELCOME, by ARTHUR POWELL Poem Text First Line: God spreads a carpet soft and green Last Line: Ah, that is spring! Subject(s): Spring THE WELL-HEAD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The withered rushes made a flame Last Line: Than not to reach the lord at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Spring THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from out the west Last Line: Wild tempests to each shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Spring; Storms; Wind; Winter THE WIND IN THE TREES; CHESTNUT IN APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chestnut is a candlestick Last Line: Make christmas trees for spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Spring THE WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden o'erwearied Last Line: Thy lover is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World THE WISTFUL DAYS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is there wanting in the spring? Last Line: We have not truly known the spring. Subject(s): Spring THE WREATH OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I roved in the meadows, the vales, and the bowers Last Line: "shall be smiling and fresh as in may." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring THE YEAR'S AWAKENING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do you know that the pilgrim track Last Line: How do you know? Subject(s): Spring THE YELLOW VIOLET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beechen buds begin to swell Last Line: That made the woods of april bright. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Violets THERE IS JOY IN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And seeing the sun %follow its old footprints Subject(s): Spring THERE IS NO DEATH, by CONSTANCE ENTWHISTLE HOAR Poem Text First Line: Pansies are best for early spring Last Line: "pansies are for remembering." Subject(s): Death; Memory; Spring; Dead, The THERE IT IS!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it go, then; let it go! Last Line: Loving you, to doubt you! Subject(s): Life; Love; Pity; Spring; Winter THERE NEVER BLOWS SO RED THE ROSE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As march's catalogs disclose %and yearly I fall prey to Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground Last Line: Would scarcely know that we were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War THEY SAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the sky is azure fair Last Line: Let the spring go -- give me my love! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Love; Sky; Spring; Paradise THINGS SEEN ON SPRING DAYS, by YUAN HUNG-TAO Poem Source First Line: Spring's second month %the lovely peach trees Subject(s): Spring THINGS SEEN ON SPRING DAYS, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: Spring's second month, %the lovely peach trees Last Line: Flower petals strike my face %like drops of falling rain Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Spring THIS BLUE DAY COMES FAIR, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source Last Line: And the great sun stirs Subject(s): Spring THIS WAS IN THE WHITE OF THE YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes, almost more Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Memory THISTLEDOWN (SPRING ON THE CAMPAGNE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bloweth like snow / from the grey thistles Last Line: The thistledown. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Spring; Italians THISTLEDOWN: 11. SPRING, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: The bud that looked out with a wistful smile Last Line: Turn back—spring is not dead; she was asleep. Subject(s): Spring THISTLEDOWN: 7, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: There's a flush on the face of the apple-trees Last Line: My love is a maid, and her name is spring. Subject(s): Spring THORN LEAVES IN MARCH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking out in the late march midnight Last Line: Sank nearer already, listing toward summer Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spring; Thorns THOU COMEST, MAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Thou comest, may, with leaves and flowers Last Line: Beat time, and still no music comes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Spring THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Valentine's Day; Spring; Inspiration THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees, gracious trees! - how rich a gift Last Line: And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring; Trees THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ye are strong to shelter! All meek things Last Line: Confessed a spirit's breath, and heard a ceaseless hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring; Trees THOUGHTS IN A CATHEDRAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not with these thy priesthood dwells Last Line: With these thy holy priesthood dwells. Variant Title(s): In A Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Creation; God; Nature; Spring; Cathedrals THREE BIRDS, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Beneath the solemn orchard of emblematic flowers Last Line: Long, long hast thou been singing thy secret song to me! Subject(s): Birds; Singing And Singers; Spring THREE SPRING NOTATIONS ON BIPEDS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The down drop of the blackbird Last Line: She throws a stone and laughs at the clug-clug. Subject(s): Spring THUS FAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In glades where frost is ambushed in the ferns Last Line: Answered, would leave but wood and water there. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Spring TICKLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A prosperous light Last Line: Nothing at all Subject(s): Details; Evening; Knowledge; Spring; Violence TIPPERARY IN THE SPRING, by DENIS ALOYSIUS MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Ah, sweet is tipperary in the springtime of the year Subject(s): Spring TIRESOME SPRING, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: I have watched her at the window Last Line: Tiresome spring! You've come again! Subject(s): Desire; Spring TITANIA'S BOWER, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows Last Line: And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow. Variant Title(s): The Violet Bank Subject(s): Spring TO A BEAUTIFUL BUT HEARTLESS COQUETTE, by FRANCISCO DE TERRAZAS Poem Source First Line: Renounce those threads of twisted gold Last Line: To be grateful, cruel, vain, austere! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; Spring TO A CLOISTRESS, by JUAN DE TASIS Poem Source First Line: Thou who hast fled from life's enchanted Last Line: Now heaven's bright harbor opens to thy %gaze! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Thorns TO A DISTANT SCENE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still are the cowslips from thy bosom Last Line: Silent, forsaken, dim, shadowed by what hath been. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring TO A DRY ELM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the old elm split in two by a ray Last Line: Another miracle of spring Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Spring TO A. E. HOUSMAN, by MARGARET ASH Poem Text First Line: Your fifty springs and seven more you saw Last Line: Whose soul still lingers here in songs, too few? Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Singing & Singers; Soul; Spring; Songs TO ADOLPHE GAIFFE, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young man free from melancholy Last Line: Words! Words! Come gather roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Wisdom; Youth TO AMANDA (3), by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear amanda, quit the town Last Line: And, opening to the sighs of love, %thy beauties glow with full delight Subject(s): Spring TO AN AGED FRIEND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long thy voice amongst us may be heard Last Line: Forget the grave in trustful thoughts of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Old Age; Spring TO AN EARLY SPRING DAY, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O day, thou found'st me sleeping; let me sleep! Last Line: Exalting her with this thy strenuous might. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Spring TO AURELIA, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, the flowery spring is blown Last Line: Yes, aurelia,—come away. Subject(s): Spring TO HEAR HER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear her sing - to hear her sing Last Line: Our hearts to her -- to hear her sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Spring TO JOHN KEATS, POET, AT SPRING TIME, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold my peace, john keats Last Line: John keats, keep revel with me, too. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Spring TO JOSE MARIA PALACIO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Palacio, good friend, %is spring Last Line: Up to high espino where her earth lies Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spring TO MARY ROSSETTI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were born in the spring Last Line: In green and in flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Spring TO MAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: May, like a maiden soft and fair Last Line: A glimpse of what thy love might be! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The TO MY ITALIAN PERGOLA REVISITED, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shaded avenue of bloom Last Line: That your glowing hearts are mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Nature; Roses; Spring TO MY SISTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the first mild day of march Last Line: We'll give to idleness. Variant Title(s): A Change In The Year;lines (written At A Small Distance From My House) Subject(s): March (month); Sisters; Spring; Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) TO NAUSIKAA, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nausikaa, running with your slender maidens Last Line: For summer's spent magnificence. Subject(s): Spring TO ONE DEAD, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: You are not there where the black pall waits Last Line: Abloom with spring. Subject(s): April; Death; Spring; Dead, The TO SPRING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Last Line: Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring TO SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And once again thou lovely spring Last Line: Ive seen them and am warmd to pay %a preference to spring Subject(s): Spring TO SPRING, BELOVED, by ESTHER MORTON SMITH Poem Text First Line: Young spring is here! I stepped without to Last Line: With dew and sunlight in her out-flung hand. Subject(s): Spring TO SPRING; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ver purpureum!' -- violet-colored spring! Last Line: Her brightest purple on our lips and noses! Subject(s): Purple (color); Spring TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE JUDGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my earliest youth Last Line: Can't you arrange to come down? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Judges; Spring; Youth TO THE MAKERS OF SONG!, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely the time for making songs has come Last Line: Surely the time for making songs has come! Subject(s): Spring TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by PEDRO DE CASTRO Y ANAYA Poem Source First Line: Bird of the joyous season! Last Line: For which I linger here Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Spring TO THE SKY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the rustlings of the poplar-bough Last Line: With founts of beauty for the eye of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sky; Spring TO THE SKYLARK, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skylark, how I envy you Last Line: To herald each return of spring. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Love; Spring; Skylarks TO THIS OLD STUMP, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: To this old stump of a plum tree Last Line: There may or may not be a new flower Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring TO VIRGINIA, by HENRY ATKINS Poem Text First Line: Spring and the daffodil again Last Line: Thy valentine. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring TODAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there were a spring day so perfect Last Line: Well, today is just that kind of day Subject(s): Spring TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is out in leaf Last Line: Fast asleep and weary -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2 Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World TOUCH OF SPRING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin wind winds off the water Subject(s): Spring TOUCH OF SPRING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin wind winds off the water Last Line: Sharpening her claws on the flesh-pink wood Subject(s): Spring TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men' Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A GLIMPSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at last having arrived I take my rest Last Line: I depart and am gone my way. Subject(s): Spring TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LITTLE BROOK WITHOUT A NAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook without a name, that hast been my companion for so many years Last Line: And bear away on thy bosom, and scatter them likewise. Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Nature; Spring; Streams; Creeks TRAIN RIDE, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The train we ride scouts curves of human houses Last Line: One lofty open pause within the mass Subject(s): Spring TRANSFORMED, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black and naked branches Last Line: The sun will find your breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Sun TRANSYLVANIA SPRING, MAY 1995, by STEVE WILSON Poem Source First Line: And thus we discover that moments grow Last Line: No, 'that time bound always within this.' Subject(s): Spring TRAPS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trap's a very useful thing: Last Line: It is a trap to catch us two. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Spring TREASURE, by BERYL V. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: April still is far away Last Line: Blowing in the wind. Subject(s): Spring TREE COMING UP, by CONSTANCE KLING LEVY Poem Source First Line: A shoot, a shoot Last Line: Through earth as rich as brown nut-bread %tree coming up - look out ahead! Subject(s): Spring TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the middle music of the spring Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth. Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 4. THE MAIDEN MARRIAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring watched her last moon burn and fade with may Last Line: All night safe sleeping in her maidenhood. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Sea; Spring; Tristram And Isolde; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TROY PARK: 1. THE WARMTH OF SPRING, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the five-pointed, the great gold sun Last Line: "the clouds have long wild hair that tangles sleep." Subject(s): Spring TRUE GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a young maiden, in the morning air Last Line: Than heaped-up flowers no thoughtful care disposes. Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Roses; Spring; Youth TULIPS, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: A thousand tulip bulbs she bought last autumn Last Line: The beauty that she grubbed and planted for. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Spring; Tulips; Planting; Planters TUSSOCK, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tussock soaks up the sun Last Line: The drippings from the roof begin to mark time in the barrel Subject(s): Grass; Spring TWAS YESTERDAY AT EARLY DAWN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Homecoming TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 14, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mysterious spring still lay under a spell Last Line: That you cannot say a single word Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Absence; Spring TWINS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, on whose wings Last Line: Now seems too divine. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Twins TWO PATHETIC SONGS: 1. SONG OF THE PINE NEEDLES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: I have taken the warmth Last Line: It will come to pass Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Spring TWO SEASONS, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Winter, stalking like a crane, cold stitched on bone Last Line: Sing, sing you symbols! Bless me, and bless the weed! Subject(s): Spring; Winter TWO SPRINGS, by CLAUDE WEIMER Poem Text First Line: The spring a laddie whistled Last Line: The tunes a laddie knew. Subject(s): Spring ULTIMO SOSPIRO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy of the world / o flower-crown'd spring Last Line: O sighs of longing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Rome, Italy; Spring; Nightmares UNDINE: A SONG OF SPRING (FOR THE GUITAR), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What word wakes the woodland to music and life? Last Line: Ting-a-ling, ring-a-ding spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Spring UNDINE: UNDINE'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Gay are we and without care Last Line: Weave their spell in the rose-lit dusk. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Calm; Seasons; Spring; Weather; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility UNFULFILLED, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is dew upon the meadows brightly glancing / in the morn Last Line: It can ne'er fulfil the promise that the springtime made to me. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Spring UNITE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a hundred, no, Last Line: Come on! It's spring! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Spring UPON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winds of winter glue Last Line: Sit unafraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON THE WINDS OF SPRING, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War UPSPRING, by GRACE HERSEY THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: After snow, fresh color Last Line: The sunlit wonder of the whole. Subject(s): Spring VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1879, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother mine / whom every year Last Line: Gives you a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Spring VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 3. SPRING, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogwood / lights up the day. Subject(s): Spring VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 3. SPRING, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogwood %lights up the day Last Line: Season of no bungling Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891); Spring VASANT PANCHAMI (LILAVATI'S LAMENT AT THE FEAST OF SPRING), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dragon-fly, fold up your purple wing Last Line: That hath foregone the kisses of the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Festivals; Memory; Spring; Fairs; Pageants VELLEN THE TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, the girt elem tree out in little hwome groun Last Line: Wer a-stannèn this mornèn, an' now's a-cut down. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Farm Life; Lumber & Lumbering; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodsmen VENTURESOME BUDS, by A. C. Poem Source First Line: Last autumn, when winter was taking Subject(s): Nature; Spring VERNAL EQUINOX, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies Subject(s): Spring VERNAL EQUINOX, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters, in the wind's boisterous roughing Subject(s): Daughters; Spring VERNAL MAGIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through all my days I shall be glad of this Last Line: To lay a hand upon the lips of praise. Subject(s): Love; Magic; Praise; Spring VERNAL SENTIMENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the crocuses poke up their heads in the usual places Subject(s): Spring VERNAL SENTIMENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the crocuses poke up their heads in the usual places Last Line: I rejoice in the spring, as though no spring had been Subject(s): Spring VERSES DESCRIPTIVE OF AN EARLY MORNING WALK IN APRIL: 1830, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blithe voice o' spring through the woodlan's was ringin' Last Line: "an' will lo'e till I leave't for ""the lan' o' the leal." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Walking VERSES FOR PICTURES: SPRING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring am I, too soft of heart Last Line: The abundance of my love. Variant Title(s): The Seasons: Spring Subject(s): Spring VERSES WRITTEN IN SPRING, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: From yon fair hill, whose woody crest Last Line: And man be thus absorbed in art. Subject(s): Spring VERY EARLY SPRING, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are snowbound no longer Last Line: And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Spring VICISSITUDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O blithe and bonny! When woods are green Last Line: Unto no earthly spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Love - Nature Of; Spring; Woods VILE SPRING!, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: I saw her at her window set Last Line: Vile spring! Why can't you keep away? Subject(s): Spring; Vision VILLANELLE; TO MR. JOSEPH BOULMIER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Villanelle, why art thou mute? Last Line: Hath the master lost his lute? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Spring; Villanelle (as Poetic Form); Songs VIOLET, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love all things the seasons bring Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Nature; Spring VIOLETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets VIOLIN SONGS: AUTUMN SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn clouds are flying, flying Last Line: Burns to hues of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: SPRING SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days of old, / ye are not dead, though gone from me Last Line: The days of old come back to me Subject(s): Spring; Sun VISION, by REBECCA ANTHONY Poem Text First Line: Again thou usherest in a verdant spring Last Line: O, god, I thank thee for the spring. Subject(s): Spring VISIONS: 4, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within this wood, out of a rocke did rise Last Line: To see such pleasures go so suddenly Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Spring VITA NUOVA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time once more Last Line: When the spring calls in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight VOICES OF SPRING, by JUNE ELLIOTT CARLSON Poem Text First Line: The soul of the river murmurs low Last Line: Runs out with a shout to meet the spring! Subject(s): Spring WACHULLA, by CATHERINE A. DUBOSE Poem Text First Line: Fountain of beauty! On my vision breaking Last Line: Refreshing all! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Catherine A. Subject(s): Wachulla Spring, Florida WAITING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my heart would break Last Line: And my heart broke, too! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spring WAKE UP, LITTLE DAISY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Spring WALK IN SPRING, by M. A. STODDART Poem Source First Line: I'm very glad the spring is come: the sun shines out so bright Subject(s): Nature; Spring WATCHING THE FLOWERS, by PO-TZU T'ING Poem Source First Line: Some prefer peach blossoms - swollen, lush Last Line: And by whom? Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Zen Buddhism WE IN THE SHAPE OF A WET FEATHER, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: From the springs, he said, set forth Last Line: Circular shadow on the springs, he said, a star bait in %flames Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rain; Spring WE'RE RACING, RACING DOWN THE WALK, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We rattle and rock %on our roller skates Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Spring WEATHER WITHIN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now what care I Last Line: To set you all a-maying. Subject(s): Spring WEATHER-COCK'S COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No wonder he creaks as the winds go by Subject(s): Nature; Spring WEIRD, by JUDITH STAHL VIORST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sister stephanie's in love Last Line: It's spring - and everyone but me %is acting really weird Subject(s): Spring WELL PLEASETH ME THE SWEET TIME OF EASTER, by EZRA POUND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Spring WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring. Lilacs and gin tinge the humid air Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Spring WHAT WAS IN MY HEART ON A SPRING DAY, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: The rains drip the sprouts out Last Line: Then frenzied songs and frenzied laughter come Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple blossom and Last Line: And the late wet snow of spring Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Spring; Squirrels WHEN EARLY MARCH SEEMS MIDDLE MAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When country roads begin to thaw Last Line: The spring is coming round this way. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Spring WHEN FLORA HAD ADORNED THE FIRTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When flora had ourfret the firth Last Line: "thus ever of greece did fair helene, / whom I luv I dar nocht assay" Subject(s): Helen Of Troy;mythology - Classical;spring WHEN GRAZIELLA SINGS, by CHARLOTTE ROBERTA MISH Poem Text First Line: There is a tender little song you sing Last Line: The gentle dreamer lives, I think, again. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Spring; Nightmares; Bedtime WHEN I HEAR ROBINS SINGING, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear robins singing Last Line: When I hear robins singing Subject(s): Spring WHEN LEAVES BEGIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When leaves begin to show their heads Last Line: Her fair white body in the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Leaves; Spring WHEN SPRING BEGINS, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: When sap is rising in each tree Last Line: Take flower once more as spring begins. Subject(s): Spring WHEN SPRING COMES, by KIM DONG-HWAN Poem Source First Line: When spring comes azaleas bloom in the hills and fields Last Line: Let me be an azalea and smile Subject(s): Spring WHEN SPRING COMES BACK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes back the violets lift Last Line: Among the garden mazes. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Violets WHEN SPRING GOES MAYING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever known a stranger thing? Last Line: "quoth she, ""when spring goes maying?" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring WHEN SPRING IS CALLING, by M. RICHARDSON SAMS Poem Text First Line: When I hear the call of spring Last Line: To cheer the thoughts and hearts of men. Subject(s): Spring WHEN SPRING IS HERE, by ROSE MOSS SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Not boys flying home-made kites Last Line: Tell me it is spring. Subject(s): Spring WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spring, when the green gits back in the trees Last Line: Jest a-potterin' roun' as I - durn - %please-- %when the green, you know, gits %back in the trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Spring; Trees WHEN THE GREENNESS IS COME AGAIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The west wind lifts the plumes of the fir Last Line: The good green world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): March (month); Spring; Wind WHEN THE LILACS ARE BLOOMIMG AGAIN, by LERREL HALMER Poem Text First Line: The mocking bird sings in the hedge Last Line: Till the lilacs bloom again. Subject(s): Spring WHEN WINTER DARKENING ALL AROUND, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter covering all the ground Last Line: And sing of spring's returning. Subject(s): Spring WHERE WILL I BE IN SPRING, by FREDERICK MUNDLE Poem Source First Line: I saw him today mr. Murray Last Line: Before I get lost in his mind Subject(s): Conversation; Spring WHISPERINGS OF SPRING, by JESSIE BELL THABES Poem Text First Line: Skies unrifted / paths high-drifted Last Line: Whisperings of spring. Subject(s): Spring WHITE ROSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the inland valleys Last Line: And the lily died. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Spring WHO CALLS?, by FRANCES CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Listen, children, listen, won't you come into the night? Last Line: "I am the spring, the spring, the spring with laughter on my lips." Alternate Author Name(s): Sayers, Frances Clark Subject(s): Spring WILD DUCKS, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night Last Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night. Subject(s): Ducks; Night; Spring; Trees; Mallards; Drakes; Bedtime WILD GEESE, by FREDERICK PETERSON Poem Text First Line: How oft against the sunset sky or moon Last Line: Symbol of coming springs! Subject(s): Geese; Spring WILD GEESE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: High in the april air Last Line: Back to her southern home. Subject(s): Geese; South Dakota; Spring WIND, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like spring, the world continually rushes away. Do we Last Line: And why not? It was all we were ever worth Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Spring WIND SONG, by LUCIA PEARL BOORNAZIAN Poem Text First Line: Cast my heart up on your barren shores Last Line: Dash the tingling spray over me. Subject(s): Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Wind; Ocean; Songs WINGED SEEDS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Source First Line: Oh, golden-green wings, and bronze-green wings Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Nature; Spring WINNIPESAUKEE, by EDMUND PALMER CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Now nature with a lavish hand Last Line: And herons stalk our island's shore. Subject(s): Birds; Islands; Nature; Spring WINTER ROADS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring thaw Last Line: Looking for winter Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Fall; Paths; Trails WINTER'S COLD, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May, and the wall was warm again. For miles Last Line: The winter's cold that holds us together lonely? Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Spring WINTER'S PASSING, by IVY FISHER Poem Text First Line: And then / a wild goose honked Last Line: Twas spring. Subject(s): Spring WISDOM BORN OF SPRING, by FLORA WHITE Poem Text First Line: The golden throated frog turning liquidity ... Last Line: As he plunges underneath the darkly shining surface of a pool. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Spring WOODEN SPRING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How horrible late spring is, with the full death of the frozen tight bulbs Subject(s): Spring WORK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down and up, and up and down Subject(s): Nature; Spring WORK TO DO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What busy times the world sees now Last Line: Your way—you sing! Subject(s): April; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Plantation Life; Spring; Work; Workers WORK WITHOUT HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair Last Line: And hope without an object cannot live. Variant Title(s): In Springtime;a Dream Of Spring Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spring; Work; Workers WORMS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I always know when spring is here at last Last Line: But bet on worms. Subject(s): Spring; Worms WRESTLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sky, cloud, seagull, sparrow, men in blue Last Line: Immaculate won, hands down. Bob scaled a rusty gate Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Spring; Wrestling And Wrestlers WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Where are the tearful smiles of youthful spring Last Line: Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Sickness; Spring; Illness YE NYMPHS AND SYLVAN GODS, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text Last Line: Of those of the milking-pail. Subject(s): Hearts; Spring YELLOW SPRING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: April had come, brimful %of yellow flowers Last Line: God was opening his hand full of yellow Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring YET COMES THE SPRING, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON Poem Text First Line: Yet comes the spring - yet flowers the blooming year Last Line: Tugs, the slight blossom on the aging bough. Subject(s): Spring YI QIN E: SPRING SENTIMENTS, FOLLOWING SU'AN'S [CHEN ZHILIN] RHYMES, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: In the season of spring Last Line: Are but dawn clouds and flowing moon Subject(s): Spring YI QIN E: SPRING'S LEAVE-TAKING, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: The east wind is waning Last Line: Their image in the mirror tinged with grief? Subject(s): Spring YOU, FAILED PRONOUN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Direct address to the swans: you, whose feet Last Line: On a dark ground. Eft. Splash. Gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Swans; Wilderness; Wings YOU, WHOSE DAY IT IS, MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Get out your rainbow colors, %so it will be beautiful Subject(s): Spring YOU; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw your face, and knew it was the spring Last Line: Waiting no longer for the sun to rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Spring YOUNG APRIL, by FANNIE G. MCCANN Poem Text First Line: Voices in the wildwood Last Line: Heralding the spring. Subject(s): Spring YOUTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child with the butterfly Last Line: On meadows of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Spring; Youth; Childhood YOUTH RENEWED, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring-flowers, spring-birds, spring-breezes Last Line: A richer, purer, mellower draught. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Spring; Youth ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. SPRING: 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Flowers so lovely in the spring groves Last Line: Blows open wide my skirts of gauze Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Spring ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. SPRING: 6, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo is singing in the bamboo Last Line: Their gauze skirts trail through fragrant grass Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Spring ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. SPRING: 9, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Skirt of gauze, tight red sleeves Last Line: Wanton and seeking a like-hearted man Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Spring ZUI TAOYUAN: EARLY SPRING, by JI YINGHUAI Poem Source First Line: The flimsy bed screen can't be rolled up Last Line: The sad one had better not look Subject(s): Spring |
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