Spring Poems

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Mulga Bill's Bicycle
by Banjo Paterson

'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze;
He turned away the good old horse that served him many days;
He dressed himself in cycling clothes, resplendent to be seen;
He hurried off to town and bought a shining new machine;
And as he wheeled it through the door, with air of lordly pride,
The grinning shop assistant said, "Excuse me, can you ride?"
"See here, young man," said Mulga Bill, "from Walgett to the sea,
From Conroy's Gap to Castlereagh, there's none can ride like me.
I'm good all round at everything, as everybody knows,
Although I'm not the one to talk - I hate a man that blows.

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The Poem Of Zuhair
by İbn Abî Sûlmâ Zuhayr

'Does the blackened ruin, situated in the stony ground between Durraj and Mutathallam, which did not speak to me, when addressed, belong to the abode of Ummi Awfa?

'And is it her dwelling at the two stony meadows, seeming as though they were the renewed tattoo marks in the sinews of the wrist?

'The wild cows and the white deer are wandering about there, one herd behind the other, while their young are springing up from every lying-down place.

'I stood again near it, (the encampment of the tribe of Awfa,) after an absence of twenty years, and with some efforts, I know her abode again after thinking awhile.

'I recognized the three stones blackened by fire at the place where the kettle used to be placed at night, and the trench round the encampment, which had not burst, like the source of a pool.


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Poem
by Elizabeth Bishop

About the size of an old-style dollar bill,
American or Canadian,
mostly the same whites, gray greens, and steel grays
-this little painting (a sketch for a larger one?)
has never earned any money in its life.
Useless and free., it has spent seventy years
as a minor family relic handed along collaterally to owners
who looked at it sometimes, or didn't bother to.

It must be Nova Scotia; only there

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Exposure
by Wilfred Owen

I

1 Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us ...
2 Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ...
3 Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient ...
4 Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous,
5 But nothing happens.

6 Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.
7 Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.

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Inchcape Rock
by Robert Southey

No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The Ship was still as she could be;
Her sails from heaven received no motion,
Her keel was steady in the ocean.

Without either sign or sound of their shock,
The waves flow’d over the Inchcape Rock;
So little they rose, so little they fell,
They did not move the Inchcape Bell.


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Recent Spring Poems
Chanting Spring
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Sweet snowdrop bells ring!
The violets are coming
Days are chanting spring.
Crimson camelias call
from dreams near the garden wall.

Gold sun fields await
rich tulips of tomorrow!
Lily's never late.
Then pansies' pink faces greet

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Sparkle Spring
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

alive like rainbows
buds bluebirds wild ecstasy ~
cherry sun gone down

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Commit
by Cassie Frazier

I relapsed today. Not in a drug way!

No!

Stop— it’s more complicated than that.

It’s okay, I’m fine,

I mean; why wouldn’t I be?


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What Makes You Feel
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Rich, pink magnolia buds, lush in a deep green world ~ heartbeats of spring

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On the Verge
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

pastel spring's coming
ushered in by fresh fragrance
lemon blooms sunning

posh pink flowers peep
pearl snowdrops left with the clouds
blue roses still sleep

buttercups, lilacs
green ivy resumes its creep

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Popular Famous Poets about Spring
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (47 poems about Spring)
    28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832 / Frankfurt am Main
  • Friedrich Schiller
    Friedrich Schiller (33 poems about Spring)
    10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805 / Marbach, Württemberg
  • Robert Herrick
    Robert Herrick (29 poems about Spring)
    1591-1674 / London / England
  • Robert Burns
    Robert Burns (21 poems about Spring)
    1759-1796 / Ayrshire / Scotland
  • Li Po
    Li Po (15 poems about Spring)
    701-762 / Chu / Kazakhstan
  • Alfred Edward Housman
    Alfred Edward Housman (14 poems about Spring)
    26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 / Worcestershire
  • Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley (13 poems about Spring)
    1753 – 5 December 1784 / Gambia
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (12 poems about Spring)
    28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 / Stratford, Essex
  •  Lucretius
    Lucretius (12 poems about Spring)
    Character of the Atoms] (99 BC - 55 BC
  • Evaleen Stein
    Evaleen Stein (11 poems about Spring)
    1863-1923 / Lafayette, Indiana
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