Collection

Spring Poems

Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring.

Illustration by Sara Katz

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
- Song: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
  John Dryden
- 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
- Today
  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
- Earthly Meditations
  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

- Spring
  Elfriede Jelinek
- Sonnet 7: How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
  John Milton
- Easter in Pittsburgh
  James Laughlin