Spring Poems

About.com has assembled a collection of classic Spring poems to welcome the season. They are seeking submissions from contemporary poets writing about Spring.

Here are the poems they have collected:

A Spring View
~ Tu Fu (c. 750)

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
Where petals have been shed like tears
And lonely birds have sung their grief.
...After the war-fires of three months,
One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
To hold the hairpins any more.

~ Trans. Witter Bynner

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• William Shakespeare,
  “Spring,” song from Love’s Labors Lost (1598)
  
  
• William Wordsworth,
  “Lines Written in Early Spring” (1798)
  
  
• Christina Rossetti,
  “Spring Quiet” (1847)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “A light exists in spring” (#85)
  
  
• Robert Frost,
  “A Prayer in Spring” (1915)
  
  
• D.H. Lawrence,
  “The Enkindled Spring” (1916)
  
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  “Spring” (1918)

Enjoy!