The following poems about spring, growth, and renewal are appropriate for young people.
“Fides, Spes” by Willa Cather
Joy is come to the little …
“Chansons Innocentes: I” by E. E. Cummings
In Just- spring …
“Spring is like a perhaps hand” by E. E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand ...
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“Cherry blossoms” by Toi Derricotte
I went down to …
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“Dear March - Come in - (1320)” by Emily Dickinson
Dear March - Come in ...
“To the Thawing Wind” by Robert Frost
Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
“What the Thrush Said” by John Keats
O Thou whose face hath felt the Winter’s wind …
“In cold spring air” by Reginald Gibbons
In cold …
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“Dandelions” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Welcome children of the Spring …
“Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out …
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“Monadnock in Early Spring” by Amy Lowell
Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all …
“Each year” by Dora Malech
I snap the twig to try to trap …
“I Have This Way of Being” by Jamaal May
I have this, and this isn’t a mouth …
“After the Winter” by Claude McKay
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves …
“The Metier of Blossoming” by Denise Levertov
Fully occupied with growing ...
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“Spring (Again)” by Michael Ryan
The birds were louder this morning …
“Springing” by Marie Ponsot
In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers …
“Spring” by Maeng Sa-song
As spring enters this land of rivers and lakes ...
“In the Memphis Airport” by Timothy Steele
Above the concourse, from a beam …
“Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself” by Wallace Stevens
At the earliest ending of winter …
“Field in Spring” by Susan Stewart
Your eye moving …
“Spring Morning” by Marion Strobel
O day—if I could cup my hands and drink of you …
“Crisscross” by Arthur Sze
Meandering across a field with wild asparagus …
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“first green flare” by Sidney Wade
makes the air ...
“Dewdrops” by Myra Viola Wilds
Watch the dewdrops in the morning ...
“Spring Storm” by William Carlos Williams
The sky has given over ...
“A Blessing” by James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota …
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