Spring Awakening

The poetry of renewal — buds and birdsong, thaw and first green, the season that has inspired poets since poetry began.

The world comes back to life

In this collection

• Gun-Teams
• Farcalladen Rise
• Love
• Helen
• Morality
• The Question
• The Sage
• Reminiscences
• Our River
• With Scindia to Delhi
• Through the Valley. [After James Thomson.]
• To Kathleen
• The Preacher
• On His Blindness
• The Hero
• To Mr. Thomas Woodward: Haste Thee, Harsh Verse, as Fast as Thy Lame Measure
• The Road Home
• On Leaving Newstead Abbey
• Huntsman, what Quarry?
• For all we have and Are
• Guilty
• Fern Hill
• Life is too Short
• The Oligarchies
• The Ploughman's Life
• One Night as I did Wander
• Song, Composed in Spring
• The Night was Still, and o'Er the Hill
• Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth my Care
• The Winter it is Past
• The Gard'Ner Wi' his Paidle
• Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring
• Phillis the Fair
• The Charming Month of May
• An April Day
• The Return of Spring
• Spring
• To the Stork
• Spring
• Another Spring
• The First Spring Day
• Spring Quiet
• Child's Talk in April
• In the Willow Shade
• An Easter Carol
• There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight
• The Question
• Fragment: May the Limner
• To Jane: the Invitation
• Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

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