William Wordsworth, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’. A fine example of romantic poetry. Tinged somewhat by an inner sadness.
William Wordsworth, ‘Daffodils’. A host of golden daffodils, dancing with the breeze.
William Blake, ‘Spring’. Celebrates joy of spring, focus on favourites in the season.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Spring’. A powerful evocation of beauty of spring.
Emily Dickinson, ‘A Light Exists in Spring’. Beautifully captures the way spring slowly appears in our consciousness, like a light in the distance.
Christina Rossetti, ‘Spring’. Describes way life begins all over again in spring, beautiful vivid images.
Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The General Prologue’ to The Canterbury Tales. Joyous masterful.
Sylvia Plath, ‘Tulips’. Exciting, lovely ode to spring.
Walt Witman, ‘Lilacs’.
