John Clare, ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar: March’. Nature poet wrote an entire sequence of poems about nature, the English countryside. He salutes the way March month of “many weathers” wildly comes our way.
Emily Dickinson, ‘Dear March – Come In’. Best known poem about month of March. ‘Dear March – Come in – / How glad I am – / I hoped for you before – / Put down your Hat – / You must have walked – / How out of Breath you are – / Dear March, how are you, and the Rest – / Did you leave Nature well – / Oh March, Come right upstairs with me – / I have so much to tell…’
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘March: An Ode’. ‘Ere frost-flower, snow-blossom faded, fell, the splendour of winter had passed out of sight / The ways of the woodlands were fairer, stranger than dreams that fulfil us in sleep with delight’. ‘March, master of winds, bright minstrel, marshal of storms that enkindle the season they smite…’