Nature’s year begins. Temperatures slowly rise. Green gradually becomes the dominant colour of the landscape. Rain from drenching showers to windy squalls help nourish the land. Nature has embarked on her epic symphony of the year.
Each year, each season, each day is a little different from her previous work. Days lengthen as her canvas and palette grows more confident. Colour emerges from the shades of monochrome. She is at work on tasks everywhere.
Naturally our classic poets rise to the challenge knowing that they will only be able to detail fragments or broad brush stroke the whole. They ponder, they write, they wonder.
01 - Fifty Shades of Spring - An Introduction
02 - The Year's at the Spring by Robert Browning
03 - A Spring Poem from Bion by Eugene Field
04 - A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
05 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield
06 - The Life of Love - Spring by Kahlil Gibran
07 - Lines Written In Early Spring by William Wordsworth
08 - To A Daisy Found Blooming March 7th by John Hartley
09 - A Shropshire Lad XXIX - The Lent Lilly by A E Housman
10 - March by John Payne
11 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth
12 - March by A E Housman
13 - Song of Haiwatha (Extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14 - March - An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne
15 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson
16 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford
17 - In March by Archibald Lampman
18 - These, I, Singing In Spring by Walt Whitman
19 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson
20 - Next Years Spring by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
21 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris
22 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne
23 - Love Like An April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess
24 - An April Love by Alfred Austin
25 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth
26 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin
27 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets
29 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling
30 - A Petition to April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire
31 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman
32 - April by Sara Teasdale
33 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage
34 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt
35 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
36 - April 1844 by Henry Alford
37 - Over the May Hill by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
38 - Song on May Morning by John Milton
39 - May Day by Edith Nesbit
40 - It is Not Always May by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
41 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan
42 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth
43 - A Calender of Sonnets - May by Helen Hunt Jackson
44 - In May by William Henry Davies
45 - May Night by Sara Teasdale
46 - The Young May Moon by Thomas Moore
47 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano
48 - Winds of May That Dance on the Sea by James Joyce
49 - May Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
50 - A Little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson
51 - May Magnificat by Gerard Manley Hopkins
52 - May 1918 by John Jay Chapman
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