“Heir of Tropic Spring”
by George E. Merrick
from Songs of the Wind on a Southern Shore, and other Poems of Florida
A celebration of Florida's tropic climate.
Spring in Verse
"It ’s in spring, the poet tells us, That we turn to thoughts of love..." This collection celebrates many poetic depictions of the season of Spring.
Passages
Le Jardin Des Tuileries
by Oscar Wilde
from Selected American and British Poems
This winter air is keen and cold, and keen and cold this winter sun,
“Laughing Song”
by William Blake
from Selected American and British Poems
A cheerful poem about springtime.
In the Merry Month of May
by Traditional
from Nursery Rhymes and Traditional Poems
A poem about the coming of spring.
It Is Not Always May
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
This poem descibes youth and beauty using nature as a metaphor.
Flowers
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
Flowers contain all the beauty, love, hope, death, rebirth that is life, if one but looks closely.
Nest Eggs
by Robert Louis Stevenson
from A Child's Garden of Verses: Selected Poems
A child thinks about the eggs he sees.
Nature, Poem 9: April
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
An altered look about the hills;
Nature, Poem 8: The Blue-Bird
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
Before you thought of spring
Nature, Poem 1
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series One
New feet within my garden go
Roses
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"Oh, wind of the spring–time, oh, free wind of May,"
Love's Season
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"When the bees are humming in the honeysuckle vine"
Spring Fever
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"Grass commence a–comin’"
Sonnet 98
by William Shakespeare
from The Sonnets
From you have I been absent in the spring
"Spring Song"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Lowly Life
"A blue–bell springs upon the ledge,"
The Lily of the Valley
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
"Sweetest of the flowers a–blooming"
An April Day
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
The poet celebrates spring, as nature recovers from the harshness of winter.