Collection
Spring Poems
Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring.
BY The Editors
Budding and Blooming
The Late Wisconsin Spring
John Koethe
At the Equinox
Arthur Sze
Aubade
Rick Barot
Pastoral
Jennifer Chang
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Cathy Park Hong
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
Daisy Time
Marjorie Pickthall
- Billy Collins
Spring, the sweet spring
Thomas Nashe
Ode on the Spring
Thomas Gray
- Ron Padgett
Firefly
Jacqueline Woodson
[the snow is melting]
Kobayashi Issa
Spiritual
Spring
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Swifts
Anne Stevenson
- Mary Oliver
spring song
Lucille Clifton
- James Laughlin
- Jill Alexander Essbaum
Love in Spring
Dear One Absent This Long While
Lisa Olstein
After the Winter
Claude McKay
Ditty
Kevin Young
The Whitsun Weddings
Philip Larkin
- Diannely Antigua
- Joy Harjo
Spring Melancholy
To Daffodils
Robert Herrick
In Perpetual Spring
Amy Gerstler
Lines Written in Early Spring
William Wordsworth
The Enkindled Spring
D. H. Lawrence
- Hershman John
The Spring
Thomas Carew
- Ada Limón
Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay
May
Jonathan Galassi
- Hieu Minh Nguyen
Spring Mourning
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Walt Whitman
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
Delmore Schwartz
- Louise Glück
- Safia Elhillo
Spring, again
Carol Dorf