Spring

A Blessing by James Wright Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota

City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García Lorca In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.

Hustlers with Bad Timing by D. A. Powell That pip in the pear is a blackbird. Tussle on the grass a grackle. It is officially spring. Watch

Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing

Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings Spring is like a perhaps hand

Spring Snow by Arthur Sze A spring snow coincides with plum blossoms.

Diary [Surface] by Rachel Zucker Spring is not so very promising as it is the thing

From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare From you have I been absent in the spring,

Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams By the road to the contagious hospital

Springing by Marie Ponsot In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers.

Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker And to think I had just paid a cousin twenty dollars to shovel the walk

Black Petal by Li-Young Lee I never claimed night fathered me

Butterfly Catcher by Tina Cane In the Sixties

If a Wilderness by Carl Phillips Then spring came

Morning News by Marilyn Hacker Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread

National Poetry Month by Elaine Equi When a poem / speaks by itself,

In cold spring air by Reginald Gibbons In cold

spring love noise and all [excerpt] by David Antin but i wondered what i would talk about

Song On May Morning by John Milton Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger

Birds Again by Jim Harrison A secret came a week ago though I already

Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] by John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

Each year by Dora Malech I snap the twig to try to trap

Chansons Innocentes: I by E. E. Cummings in Just-

Spring Day [Bath] by Amy Lowell The day is fresh-washed and fair

Alcove by John Ashbery Is it possible that spring could be

Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay Too green the springing April grass

The Enkindled Spring by D. H. Lawrence This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green

Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring

[O were my love yon Lilac fair] by Robert Burns O were my love yon Lilac fair

In the Memphis Airport by Timothy Steele Above the concourse, from a beam

Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth I heard a thousand blended notes

Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay To what purpose, April, do you return again

Spring Storm by William Carlos Williams The sky has given over

Vernal Equinox by Amy Lowell The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies between me and my book

After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains by John Keats After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains

The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer] by William Shakespeare When daffodils begin to peer

Magdalen Walks by Oscar Wilde The little white clouds are racing over the sky

Two Sewing by Hazel Hall The Wind is sewing with needles of rain

Thinking of Madame Bovary by Jane Kenyon The first hot April day the granite step

Papyrus by Ezra Pound Spring . . . . . . .

Spring Song by Sherwood Anderson In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine