\*
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/6 "2008-03-12T21:35:59Z")
SDMB thread
Asks for seasonal poem
Haiku writer stumped.
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### Author:  [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/7 "2008-03-13T01:25:31Z")
\*In early spring-tide, when the icy drip
Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath
Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then 'tis time;
Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox,
And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine. \*
Book 1 of the Georgics by Virgil
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/8 "2008-03-13T01:32:51Z")
_Spring has sprung
The grass has ris
I wonder where
The birdies is?_
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### Author:  [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/9 "2008-03-13T04:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
_Spring has sprung
The grass has ris
I wonder where
The birdies is?_
[/QUOTE]
Spring is sprung
The grass is riz
The bird is on the wing.
Isn’t that absurd?
I thought the wing was on the bird.
I either recite those or email them to my kids every year, along with the frog poem. They think I’m weird.
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### Author:  [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/10 "2008-03-13T05:10:52Z")
More Shakespeare:
[" It was a Lover and his Lass"](http://www.bartleby.com/101/137.html) from [As You Like It](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It):
\*IT was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o’er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
\*[etc.]
It’s often set to the music of his contemporary Thomas Morley, as can be heard at the link [on this page](http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/shakespeare.html) .
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/11 "2008-03-13T05:56:01Z")
In spite of cold and chills
That usher in the early spring,
We have daffodils
Author unknown. Translation of a haiku, I presume, but I learned it in 2nd grade.
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/12 "2008-03-13T12:22:24Z")
From the movie _Groundhog Day_, as quoted by “Nice Phil”:
“Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.” (Samuel Coleridge) (I admit, I had to look it up to find the origin!)
And just for fun, a quote about the approach of Spring from “Nasty Phil” as he stands outside the Groundhog’s hole:
“This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a _rat_. What a hype! Well, it used to mean something in this town: they used to pull the hog out, and they used to _eat it_. You’re hypocrites, all of you! … You want a prediction about the weather? You’re asking the wrong Phil. _I’ll_ give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be gray, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.”
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/13 "2008-03-13T13:10:18Z")
Not Spring specifically, but this verse about April has always resonated with me:
> [@](#):
>
> The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
> You know how it is with an April day
> When the sun is out and the wind is still,
> You’re one month on in the middle of May.
> But if you so much as dare to speak,
> A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
> A wind comes off a frozen peak,
> And you’re two months back in the middle of March.
Robert Frost, \*Two Tramps in Mud Time \*
So true!
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/14 "2008-03-14T18:08:41Z")
Thanks, these were great! Keep them coming… 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/15 "2008-03-14T18:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
I’m looking for something a bit more in keeping of the season of renewal and rebirth.
[/QUOTE]
“There Will Come Soft Rains”, Sara Teasdale
\*There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.\*
Well, it’s _kind_ of about rebirth…
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/16 "2008-03-14T18:35:24Z")
Tom Jobin’s [The Waters of March](http://www.lyricsdomain.com/1/art_garfunkel/waters_of_march.html)
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### Author:  [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/17 "2008-03-14T19:51:07Z")
[QUOTE=flurb]
\*In early spring-tide, when the icy drip
Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath
Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then 'tis time;
Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox,
And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine. \*
Book 1 of the Georgics by Virgil
[/QUOTE]
Vere novo, gelidus canis cum montibus umor
liquitur et Zephyro putris se glaeba resolvit,
depresso incipiat iam tum mihi taurus aratro
ingemere et sulco attritus splendescere vomer.
A beautiful poem.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/18 "2008-03-14T19:58:07Z")
Spring is here, spring is here,
Life is skittles, and life is beer,
I think the loveliest time of the year
Is the Spring. I do. Don’t you? ['Course you do](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY)…
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/19 "2008-03-14T20:07:59Z")
Henry Reed’s “Naming of Parts” It starts:
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
[/quote]
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-poems-about-spring/441144/20 "2008-03-14T20:19:23Z")
Inchworm, inchworm,
Measuring the marigolds,
You and your arithmetic will probably go far.
Inchworm, inchworm,
Measuring the marigolds,
Seems to me you’d stop and see how beautiful they are.
. . .
Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two . . .
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