Collection
Spring Poems
Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring.
BY The Editors
Flowers
Lilacs
Amy Lowell
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Walt Whitman
Daisy Time
Marjorie Pickthall
To Daffodils
Robert Herrick
Spring In Love
The Spring
Thomas Carew
After the Winter
Claude McKay
Dear One Absent This Long While
Lisa Olstein
Song: Spring
William Shakespeare
Joy In Spring
More Than Enough
Marge Piercy
The Late Wisconsin Spring
John Koethe
Ode on the Spring
Thomas Gray
[in Just-]
E. E. Cummings
Spring, the sweet spring
Thomas Nashe
- Billy Collins
Three Haiku, Two Tanka
Philip Appleman
Spiritual
Lines Written in Early Spring
William Wordsworth
“Feuerzauber”
Louis Untermeyer
Swifts
Anne Stevenson
Spring
Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Robert Wrigley
Melancholy
Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Enkindled Spring
D. H. Lawrence
In Perpetual Spring
Amy Gerstler
A Color of the Sky
Tony Hoagland
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
Delmore Schwartz
May
Jonathan Galassi
Penumbrae
John Updike
Youth In Spring
- Elfriede Jelinek
- James Laughlin