Potential Titles: Spring
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somethingdarkerSprang an immortal to the blaze of day - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Sprang to kiss the sun - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Sprang inventive from a daring mind - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Once immortal in the spring thaw - Rasha Abdulhadi "this bitter bud"
The last hail-storm to trouble spring - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Boundless as the blooms of spring - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
That arrive with books and spring - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
Say farewell to the spring - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "If You Forget Me" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Beside the violet-crested spring - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"
Near music-haunted springs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"
How spring can also arrive in precision - Kimberly Quiogue Andrews "Poet Ventriloquizes the Beloved"
To brave the pain of spring - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"
That shone of yore around this haunted spring - Reginald Augustine "The Ruined Well" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
A winter still unprepared for spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"
Where winter had not heard of spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"
no promise of another spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "now and forever"
Yet saved the seeds to plant next spring - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Spring mixed with summer - Basho transl. by David Young
In deficit of countless springs - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
The rapture of ambrosial springs - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
A spring which desires a fountain - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A draught from Rapture's sparkling spring - Matilda Betham "The Lay of Marie Canto I"
Plants that spring in ruins and shards - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Kindred children of the Spring - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"
The breath of spring is everywhere - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A spring of comfort in my heart - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"
Poor spectres of the perished spring - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"
12 full moons folded into Spring - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Early spring's dissolving powers - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Hawthorn Spray"
The gentle name of spring - William Cullen Bryant "March"
And tears like those of spring - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
With every twig and twist of Spring - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Playmate of the verdant spring - Caledfryn "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Bud to flower in the time of spring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
Haunt the streams of the springs of thought - Bliss Carman "Wanderer"
Spring opens like a blade - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Spring from a holy bargain - Cyrus Cassells "The Bargain"
An improbable spring and a maybe sunrise - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
On the edge of each spring leaf - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
Reviving memories of vanished springs - Ralph Chaplin "The Girls Who Sang for Us"
Make their glad obeisance to the spring - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XII"
When potential force springs into actual - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXII"
Spring from knots in tree-trunks - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Spring cannot regret thee - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"
Power in the spring - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"
The siren of the springs of guilty song - Hart Crane "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"
Red perfidies of spring are trillion on the hill - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"
With lifting spring and starker vestiges of the sun - Hart Crane "Stark Major"
And spring came in with silver feet - George Cronyn "A Voice"
Robed in the livery of spring - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Helpless in the toil of Spring - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Answerest them only with spring - E.E. Cummings "La Guerre (II)"
A rose shall beget the spring - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
Waiting spring's warm and wooing breath - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
At the saints' first spring - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"
Bitter with remembrance of the spring - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"
The chained watchdog Will no longer springs - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Celestial weavers at the loom of Spring - Geoffrey Dearmer "We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage"
Tapping and tuning the springs and sprockets - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"
The trampled steel that springs - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VIII"
Still the pensive spring returns - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
From the joyous harp of Spring - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"
No winter shall abate the spring's increase - John Donne "Love's Growth"
With stirrings of the Spring - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
Unblest by the brigades of spring - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
For these are the emperors of spring - John Drinkwater "With Daffodils"
The tiger springs in the new year - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Thunder of spring over distant mountains - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Sings to herald the spring - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
From which powers and verdicts spring - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 21. E-Tarsirsir. the Temple of Baba in Girsu" transl. by Sophus Helle
At the crime scene of spring - Elaine Equi "National Poetry Month"
From my former woes spring woes in long succession - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Curved like chestnut buds in spring - Joan Evans "The Hamadryad"
Your feet are closest to spring - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
Half hidden under the liquid veil of spring - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
On the trembling verges of the spring - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Has long frozen Hope's warm springs - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The leaves of Spring turn gold - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
When did Spring die? - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
Language springs from the land - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"
The spring will autumn's frost deride - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Still echo the songs of spring - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Alone in spring's ephemeral cathedrals - Dana Gioia "The Apple Orchard"
The purple promise of the spring is writ in violets - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
In Spring we note the breaking - Dora Read Goodale "Spring and Summer" [St. Nicholas v.V no.11, Sept. 1878]
Take your last look at the beautiful Spring - Dora Read Goodale "Summer Is Coming" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]
The prophecy of spring will be fulfilled - Mona Gould "Spring Comes to a Small Town"
All the gifts that spring from ripest age - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"
Know there is spring in the world - Arthur Guiterman "In the Hospital"
To welcome a dry spring - Jin Ha "In the Springtime" (translated by the author)
The woman with spring water palms - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Chalice from Marah's bitterest spring distill'd - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
In the whirl of springs and autumns - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "282 [Amid ten thousand streams up among]" transl. by David Hinton
Flowers of rage spring up in the depression - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The salvation of spring - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
Within a sunless spring - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"
Welcome children of the Spring - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"
Caught from a snowdrop in earliest spring - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
On a floor of pine silt and spring mud - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Loves the dews of spring - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
On seraph pinion spring - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
That nature's springs control - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Ready to spring with fearful roar - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Turns and plays the deuce with Spring - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: April"
Grass springs green on the plain - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
One stray emblem of returning spring - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"
All that springs of golden birth - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Jester" [The Broadway Anthology]
Swaying to a spring's morning breath - Frank Horne "Toast"
Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Take from seventy springs a score - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II"
Out of earthly seeds springs the aerial flower - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: IV"
Soon the gates of spring will open - "I Am Coming!" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
My glory out of darkness springs - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Spring has many silences - Laura Riding Jackson "The Spring Has Many Silences"
That shone at the dawn of spring - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
Spring lasts longer than its bloom - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
The flame that from dark ashes springs - Sir Nizamat Jung "I: Rebirth"
Like flowers ache for spring - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Flowering laurels spring from diamond vases - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Beneath the wand of spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The silken skirts of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The noiseless sandals of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Mingled in the spring song of the walls - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
A spring of shambles - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Donika"
Clear spring and haunted well - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"
Serene above springs - Jane Kenyon "Spring Snow"
In the fire of Spring - Omar Khayyam "Action"
And Mirth that has no bitter springs - Rudyard Kipling "The Children's Song"
Tipping forward into spring - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"
And taste the springs of life - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
The glad and mad spring weather - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"
This leaping combustion of spring - D.H. Lawrence "The Enkindled Spring"
Oh Danaë to this spring of cosmic gold - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"
Light welling from the deep springs of night - Richard Le Gallienne "The Country Gods"
She loved the Autumn, I the Spring - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"
Spring's unquiet shadow listening - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"
A doll that sleeps with nothing to touch the springs - Henry S. Leigh "A Child's Twilight"
The weather has not decided if this is spring - Philip Levine "The Two"
The passionate wind of spring - Amy Levy "The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz"
The Spring wind alone can understand - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Spring chores too long untended - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson
Inching toward each other in spring snow - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Companions of the spring - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
The light and shadow of all springs - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
The paler primrose of a second spring - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
A little spring from memory welled - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
No remembrance of spring - Naomi Long Madgett "The Time Is Now"
All the wealth of spring unrolled - Frederic Manning "Blue and Gold"
The garnered music of a million Springs - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
On the soul's moors the winds of spring are blowing - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"
And crown the spring with fire - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Unclot and flow in the streets of spring - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
The careful seeds of spring - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
No grief for them in the green Spring - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Grey months to wait for spring - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Spring from damned seeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"
Many springs for their ripening - Carly Joy Miller "Five Moths"
Spring with her torch and her rain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"
Trace back spring's tattered weather - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"
The buds of spring grew withered in his grasp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Fresher than spring's blossoms be - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen
The jasmine of our exhausted human spring - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Deliver the judgment of spring - Pablo Neruda "The Judgment" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Fallen from the spring of misfortune - Pablo Neruda "Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich" translated by Richard Schaaf
A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The metabolism of the hidden springs - Tim Newcomb "Ten Minutes South of the Port of Tacoma"
Beat the drums of spring - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
Had stirred oblivion's darkest springs - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "A Forest Scene"
Through lessons of the spring-time flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"
The sap of their dreams rivers of spring overflowing - Margaret Noodin "Sweet Water" transl. by the author
Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Hushes the hasty footfall of coming spring - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Immortal water from the spring of Homer - Kostes Palamas "To Pallis for His 'Iliad'" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Cannot feel the knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"
The knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W----"
Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
Spices spring in sweet array - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Should sorrow spring from duty, too? - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
See the light Spring weave her rosy chain - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Dyed with the hue of spring rivers - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a crocus in the swamps of spring - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Spring rain gentling the petunias - Kevin Prufer "House Hunters"
A spring of deathless music welling - Kate Putnam "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
That throbs in the veins of Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Almonds bloom in early Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"
Beams of youth's forgotten spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"
Hot springs of turbid fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"
Where spring's first violets perished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
The warp and weave of next spring's flags - Laura Ann Reed "Fortitude"
Had drawn his dream of spring - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"
Wisteria bulging on spring air - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Ask nothing of the spring - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
The languor of a thousand springs - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Vibrant with the breath of spring - Rainer Maria Rilke "Early Apollo" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
No Spring that Autumn has not known - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
The leaves of Autumn guard the buds of Spring - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
Spring from the couch of death to realms of air - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
A holiday to enter spring while honoring the dead - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
End like a spring leaf shed - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Bending the winter to the needs of spring - Vita Sackville-West "From a Diary, January 1918"
That leaves should spring from sacrifice of leaves - Vita Sackville-West "Home"
A spring of storms - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
the bathtub full of your spring weeds - C.T. Salazar "River"
A farmer's spring prayer - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
The witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring - Sir Walter Scott "Lady of the Lake: Canto I" [excerpt]
When Spring comes back with rustling shade - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
When Spring brings back blue days and fair - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
With twigs of lilac and spring's earliest rose - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"
Gear and pulley, all coiled spring and iron will - M. Bartley Seigel "Beach Glass"
Rewind the spring assembly to set broken gears in motion - M. Bartley Seigel "Before the Fall"
Herald to the gaudy spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Stealing away the treasure of his spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"
Among the springs of fire and poison - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
The brightest hour of unborn Spring - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Azure sister of the spring - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Weave a chaplet round the brow of Spring - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"
Hark the rumour of ten thousand ancient Springs - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
From Memory's generous spring - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"
Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
each spring that see storm after storm - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
The glad and golden death of spring - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Plucked from the snow in spring - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"
Through a divine monotony of Spring on spring - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
Overexposed in spring sunlight - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
In that faraway dark
The spring remembers how it was - Clemens Starck "A Brief Lecture on Door Closers"
A revelation on a spring morning - Meghan Sterling "Chickadee"
Or else it is not spring - Wallace Stevens "Holiday in Reality"
The pearled chaplet of spring - Wallace Stevens "The Rock II: The Poem as Icon"
Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
The tremor of spring rain - Bianca Stone "The Murder"
Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"
Spring wind shook the river - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
Winter's interment, mourn'd by laughing Spring - Howard V. Sutherland "The Return of the Sun"
Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Blended of wild spring's wildest of kin - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Outside the window spring is gathering force - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Pour out my spring wine - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Fondling the milky spring wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
To coax up ephemerals in spring - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
With Demeter still we seek the Spring - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"
Set the whole world on the trail of spring - Sara Teasdale "A November Night"
With the first spring thunder in a rush of rain - Sara Teasdale "Spring Rain"
But Fall and Spring can never meet - Edith M. Thomas "Autumn to Spring" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]
The very spring breathes bitter breath - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IV. The Journey"
The oak groves flushed with spring delight - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Because the Spring was slow - Charles Hanson Towne "Waiting"
Spring flowers may blow from winter frost - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Next year on floods of spring - Tu Fu "They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple" transl. by Burton Watson
Take to spring wind and frolic with moonlight - Tu Mu "Inscribed on Recluse Yuan's Lofty Pavilion" transl. by David Hinton
Laertes at his sister's grave bids violets spring - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
Are brave with the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"
No place for Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"
All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Briefness of its reckless Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"
A spring of deathless music welling - "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
Greenest greetings sent to Spring - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "April Walking"
Give me the magic of a thousand springs - George Sylvester Viereck "Iron Passion"
Until the Suns of Spring have smiled - Charles William Wallace "Life's Philosophy"
Who can exhaust the splendor of spring? - Wang An-Shih "Farewell to Gaze-Arrive" transl. by David Hinton
Spring wind past stone walls remembers best - Wang An-Shih "Golden-Tomb City" transl. by David Hinton
Wildflowers trace spring's tender assent - Wang An-Shih "Here at Bell Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
A hundred kinds of noise on spring wind - Wang An-Shih "Here at River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
Spring wind scatters you away - Wang An-Shih "Poking Fun at My White Hair" transl. by David Hinton
Bitter mist hides spring colors - Wang An-Shih "Spring Rain" transl. by David Hinton
A conditional clause hanging from something to do with spring - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
From loftier triumphs sure must spring - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
And made obeisance to the Spring - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Spring tides robed in rain - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
The trailing hem of laggard Spring - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Dawning Spring time's fairest pledge - Edith Wharton "Prophecies of Summer"
Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
Spring will rise from her dungeon keep - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
Through this bewildering maze of spring - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"
Spring is gone down in purple - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"
To be starlight in spring - Matthew Wimberley "Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing"
Bear the spring's reiterated urgencies - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
As budding pines in Spring - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"
Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Offer the beauties of spring again - Yang Wan-li "Breakfast at Noonday-Ascension Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
We played the song of her spring - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
The luck of spring winds - Jane Yolen "Winter Finch"
Ghost of a cocooned spring - Zheng Min "The Ghost of a Spring Cocoon" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Dayspring of the desolate - Benjamin Copeland "Gold, and Frankincense, and Myrrh"
Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
There's a mainspring to the bee - Vachel Lindsay "Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration"
To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
When a spirit-spring broke open - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
Life's fountain springing from eternity- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"
And look where splendour should be springing - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"
Bengal tigers springing at the hounds - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
Springing from the arms of night - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"
Of Love caught from the springing sod - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Spires springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Beauty springing from the sod - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Springing bridges of crimson lacquer - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
The buried seed to springing roots gives birth - Caroline F. Orne "Sonnet [Hid in the bosom of life-giving earth]" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
The springless January of his beginning to be gone - Mary Jo Bang "No Exit"
Springtime.
A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"
Some crank in me tightens the whirly-spring - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]
Many a heart which sprung fresh into life - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Bastard mushrooms sprung from a pollution of blood - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
Had sprung complete from darkness - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
The turf alone tells whence he sprung - D.F. "Monument and Turf" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.725, 17 Nov. 1877]
Light from her native surge she sprung - Prof. Goodrich, Yale College "Venice as it Was and as it Is (written in 1826)" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Sprung from these greater furrows - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"
A communion of that sprung blood - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"
For both are sprung from clay - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
And fierce to vengeance sprung - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
The flowers of Eden sprung - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Sprung from Dodona's tree oracular - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Time his hinge had backward sprung - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Together sprung, before the birth of time - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Some plot sprung, cruelly, at the last - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
A sky-lark in his strength upsprung - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
With bottles, bones, and wire-springs - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Garden"
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Sprang to kiss the sun - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Sprang inventive from a daring mind - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Once immortal in the spring thaw - Rasha Abdulhadi "this bitter bud"
The last hail-storm to trouble spring - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Boundless as the blooms of spring - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
That arrive with books and spring - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
Say farewell to the spring - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "If You Forget Me" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Beside the violet-crested spring - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"
Near music-haunted springs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"
How spring can also arrive in precision - Kimberly Quiogue Andrews "Poet Ventriloquizes the Beloved"
To brave the pain of spring - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"
That shone of yore around this haunted spring - Reginald Augustine "The Ruined Well" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
A winter still unprepared for spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"
Where winter had not heard of spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"
no promise of another spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "now and forever"
Yet saved the seeds to plant next spring - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Spring mixed with summer - Basho transl. by David Young
In deficit of countless springs - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
The rapture of ambrosial springs - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
A spring which desires a fountain - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A draught from Rapture's sparkling spring - Matilda Betham "The Lay of Marie Canto I"
Plants that spring in ruins and shards - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Kindred children of the Spring - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"
The breath of spring is everywhere - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A spring of comfort in my heart - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"
Poor spectres of the perished spring - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"
12 full moons folded into Spring - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Early spring's dissolving powers - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Hawthorn Spray"
The gentle name of spring - William Cullen Bryant "March"
And tears like those of spring - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
With every twig and twist of Spring - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Playmate of the verdant spring - Caledfryn "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Bud to flower in the time of spring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
Haunt the streams of the springs of thought - Bliss Carman "Wanderer"
Spring opens like a blade - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Spring from a holy bargain - Cyrus Cassells "The Bargain"
An improbable spring and a maybe sunrise - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
On the edge of each spring leaf - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
Reviving memories of vanished springs - Ralph Chaplin "The Girls Who Sang for Us"
Make their glad obeisance to the spring - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XII"
When potential force springs into actual - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXII"
Spring from knots in tree-trunks - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Spring cannot regret thee - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"
Power in the spring - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"
The siren of the springs of guilty song - Hart Crane "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"
Red perfidies of spring are trillion on the hill - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"
With lifting spring and starker vestiges of the sun - Hart Crane "Stark Major"
And spring came in with silver feet - George Cronyn "A Voice"
Robed in the livery of spring - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Helpless in the toil of Spring - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Answerest them only with spring - E.E. Cummings "La Guerre (II)"
A rose shall beget the spring - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
Waiting spring's warm and wooing breath - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
At the saints' first spring - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"
Bitter with remembrance of the spring - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"
The chained watchdog Will no longer springs - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Celestial weavers at the loom of Spring - Geoffrey Dearmer "We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage"
Tapping and tuning the springs and sprockets - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"
The trampled steel that springs - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VIII"
Still the pensive spring returns - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
From the joyous harp of Spring - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"
No winter shall abate the spring's increase - John Donne "Love's Growth"
With stirrings of the Spring - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
Unblest by the brigades of spring - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
For these are the emperors of spring - John Drinkwater "With Daffodils"
The tiger springs in the new year - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Thunder of spring over distant mountains - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Sings to herald the spring - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
From which powers and verdicts spring - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 21. E-Tarsirsir. the Temple of Baba in Girsu" transl. by Sophus Helle
At the crime scene of spring - Elaine Equi "National Poetry Month"
From my former woes spring woes in long succession - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Curved like chestnut buds in spring - Joan Evans "The Hamadryad"
Your feet are closest to spring - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
Half hidden under the liquid veil of spring - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
On the trembling verges of the spring - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Has long frozen Hope's warm springs - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The leaves of Spring turn gold - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
When did Spring die? - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
Language springs from the land - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"
The spring will autumn's frost deride - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Still echo the songs of spring - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Alone in spring's ephemeral cathedrals - Dana Gioia "The Apple Orchard"
The purple promise of the spring is writ in violets - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
In Spring we note the breaking - Dora Read Goodale "Spring and Summer" [St. Nicholas v.V no.11, Sept. 1878]
Take your last look at the beautiful Spring - Dora Read Goodale "Summer Is Coming" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]
The prophecy of spring will be fulfilled - Mona Gould "Spring Comes to a Small Town"
All the gifts that spring from ripest age - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"
Know there is spring in the world - Arthur Guiterman "In the Hospital"
To welcome a dry spring - Jin Ha "In the Springtime" (translated by the author)
The woman with spring water palms - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Chalice from Marah's bitterest spring distill'd - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
In the whirl of springs and autumns - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "282 [Amid ten thousand streams up among]" transl. by David Hinton
Flowers of rage spring up in the depression - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The salvation of spring - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
Within a sunless spring - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"
Welcome children of the Spring - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"
Caught from a snowdrop in earliest spring - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
On a floor of pine silt and spring mud - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Loves the dews of spring - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
On seraph pinion spring - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
That nature's springs control - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Ready to spring with fearful roar - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Turns and plays the deuce with Spring - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: April"
Grass springs green on the plain - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
One stray emblem of returning spring - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"
All that springs of golden birth - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Jester" [The Broadway Anthology]
Swaying to a spring's morning breath - Frank Horne "Toast"
Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Take from seventy springs a score - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II"
Out of earthly seeds springs the aerial flower - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: IV"
Soon the gates of spring will open - "I Am Coming!" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
My glory out of darkness springs - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Spring has many silences - Laura Riding Jackson "The Spring Has Many Silences"
That shone at the dawn of spring - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
Spring lasts longer than its bloom - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
The flame that from dark ashes springs - Sir Nizamat Jung "I: Rebirth"
Like flowers ache for spring - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Flowering laurels spring from diamond vases - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Beneath the wand of spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The silken skirts of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The noiseless sandals of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Mingled in the spring song of the walls - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
A spring of shambles - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Donika"
Clear spring and haunted well - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"
Serene above springs - Jane Kenyon "Spring Snow"
In the fire of Spring - Omar Khayyam "Action"
And Mirth that has no bitter springs - Rudyard Kipling "The Children's Song"
Tipping forward into spring - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"
And taste the springs of life - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
The glad and mad spring weather - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"
This leaping combustion of spring - D.H. Lawrence "The Enkindled Spring"
Oh Danaë to this spring of cosmic gold - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"
Light welling from the deep springs of night - Richard Le Gallienne "The Country Gods"
She loved the Autumn, I the Spring - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"
Spring's unquiet shadow listening - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"
A doll that sleeps with nothing to touch the springs - Henry S. Leigh "A Child's Twilight"
The weather has not decided if this is spring - Philip Levine "The Two"
The passionate wind of spring - Amy Levy "The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz"
The Spring wind alone can understand - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Spring chores too long untended - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson
Inching toward each other in spring snow - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Companions of the spring - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
The light and shadow of all springs - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
The paler primrose of a second spring - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
A little spring from memory welled - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
No remembrance of spring - Naomi Long Madgett "The Time Is Now"
All the wealth of spring unrolled - Frederic Manning "Blue and Gold"
The garnered music of a million Springs - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
On the soul's moors the winds of spring are blowing - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"
And crown the spring with fire - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Unclot and flow in the streets of spring - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
The careful seeds of spring - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
No grief for them in the green Spring - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Grey months to wait for spring - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Spring from damned seeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"
Many springs for their ripening - Carly Joy Miller "Five Moths"
Spring with her torch and her rain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"
Trace back spring's tattered weather - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"
The buds of spring grew withered in his grasp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Fresher than spring's blossoms be - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen
The jasmine of our exhausted human spring - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Deliver the judgment of spring - Pablo Neruda "The Judgment" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Fallen from the spring of misfortune - Pablo Neruda "Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich" translated by Richard Schaaf
A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The metabolism of the hidden springs - Tim Newcomb "Ten Minutes South of the Port of Tacoma"
Beat the drums of spring - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
Had stirred oblivion's darkest springs - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "A Forest Scene"
Through lessons of the spring-time flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"
The sap of their dreams rivers of spring overflowing - Margaret Noodin "Sweet Water" transl. by the author
Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Hushes the hasty footfall of coming spring - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Immortal water from the spring of Homer - Kostes Palamas "To Pallis for His 'Iliad'" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Cannot feel the knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"
The knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W----"
Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
Spices spring in sweet array - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Should sorrow spring from duty, too? - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
See the light Spring weave her rosy chain - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Dyed with the hue of spring rivers - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a crocus in the swamps of spring - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Spring rain gentling the petunias - Kevin Prufer "House Hunters"
A spring of deathless music welling - Kate Putnam "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
That throbs in the veins of Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Almonds bloom in early Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"
Beams of youth's forgotten spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"
Hot springs of turbid fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"
Where spring's first violets perished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
The warp and weave of next spring's flags - Laura Ann Reed "Fortitude"
Had drawn his dream of spring - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"
Wisteria bulging on spring air - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Ask nothing of the spring - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
The languor of a thousand springs - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Vibrant with the breath of spring - Rainer Maria Rilke "Early Apollo" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
No Spring that Autumn has not known - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
The leaves of Autumn guard the buds of Spring - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
Spring from the couch of death to realms of air - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
A holiday to enter spring while honoring the dead - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
End like a spring leaf shed - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Bending the winter to the needs of spring - Vita Sackville-West "From a Diary, January 1918"
That leaves should spring from sacrifice of leaves - Vita Sackville-West "Home"
A spring of storms - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
the bathtub full of your spring weeds - C.T. Salazar "River"
A farmer's spring prayer - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
The witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring - Sir Walter Scott "Lady of the Lake: Canto I" [excerpt]
When Spring comes back with rustling shade - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
When Spring brings back blue days and fair - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
With twigs of lilac and spring's earliest rose - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"
Gear and pulley, all coiled spring and iron will - M. Bartley Seigel "Beach Glass"
Rewind the spring assembly to set broken gears in motion - M. Bartley Seigel "Before the Fall"
Herald to the gaudy spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Stealing away the treasure of his spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"
Among the springs of fire and poison - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
The brightest hour of unborn Spring - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Azure sister of the spring - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Weave a chaplet round the brow of Spring - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"
Hark the rumour of ten thousand ancient Springs - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
From Memory's generous spring - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"
Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
each spring that see storm after storm - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
The glad and golden death of spring - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Plucked from the snow in spring - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"
Through a divine monotony of Spring on spring - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
Overexposed in spring sunlight - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
In that faraway dark
The spring remembers how it was - Clemens Starck "A Brief Lecture on Door Closers"
A revelation on a spring morning - Meghan Sterling "Chickadee"
Or else it is not spring - Wallace Stevens "Holiday in Reality"
The pearled chaplet of spring - Wallace Stevens "The Rock II: The Poem as Icon"
Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
The tremor of spring rain - Bianca Stone "The Murder"
Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"
Spring wind shook the river - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
Winter's interment, mourn'd by laughing Spring - Howard V. Sutherland "The Return of the Sun"
Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Blended of wild spring's wildest of kin - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Outside the window spring is gathering force - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Pour out my spring wine - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Fondling the milky spring wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
To coax up ephemerals in spring - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
With Demeter still we seek the Spring - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"
Set the whole world on the trail of spring - Sara Teasdale "A November Night"
With the first spring thunder in a rush of rain - Sara Teasdale "Spring Rain"
But Fall and Spring can never meet - Edith M. Thomas "Autumn to Spring" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]
The very spring breathes bitter breath - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IV. The Journey"
The oak groves flushed with spring delight - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Because the Spring was slow - Charles Hanson Towne "Waiting"
Spring flowers may blow from winter frost - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Next year on floods of spring - Tu Fu "They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple" transl. by Burton Watson
Take to spring wind and frolic with moonlight - Tu Mu "Inscribed on Recluse Yuan's Lofty Pavilion" transl. by David Hinton
Laertes at his sister's grave bids violets spring - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
Are brave with the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"
No place for Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"
All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Briefness of its reckless Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"
A spring of deathless music welling - "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
Greenest greetings sent to Spring - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "April Walking"
Give me the magic of a thousand springs - George Sylvester Viereck "Iron Passion"
Until the Suns of Spring have smiled - Charles William Wallace "Life's Philosophy"
Who can exhaust the splendor of spring? - Wang An-Shih "Farewell to Gaze-Arrive" transl. by David Hinton
Spring wind past stone walls remembers best - Wang An-Shih "Golden-Tomb City" transl. by David Hinton
Wildflowers trace spring's tender assent - Wang An-Shih "Here at Bell Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
A hundred kinds of noise on spring wind - Wang An-Shih "Here at River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
Spring wind scatters you away - Wang An-Shih "Poking Fun at My White Hair" transl. by David Hinton
Bitter mist hides spring colors - Wang An-Shih "Spring Rain" transl. by David Hinton
A conditional clause hanging from something to do with spring - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
From loftier triumphs sure must spring - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
And made obeisance to the Spring - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Spring tides robed in rain - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
The trailing hem of laggard Spring - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Dawning Spring time's fairest pledge - Edith Wharton "Prophecies of Summer"
Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
Spring will rise from her dungeon keep - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
Through this bewildering maze of spring - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"
Spring is gone down in purple - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"
To be starlight in spring - Matthew Wimberley "Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing"
Bear the spring's reiterated urgencies - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
As budding pines in Spring - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"
Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
And tasted bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Bitter springs of truth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Offer the beauties of spring again - Yang Wan-li "Breakfast at Noonday-Ascension Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
We played the song of her spring - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
The luck of spring winds - Jane Yolen "Winter Finch"
Ghost of a cocooned spring - Zheng Min "The Ghost of a Spring Cocoon" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Dayspring of the desolate - Benjamin Copeland "Gold, and Frankincense, and Myrrh"
Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
There's a mainspring to the bee - Vachel Lindsay "Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration"
To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
When a spirit-spring broke open - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
Life's fountain springing from eternity- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"
And look where splendour should be springing - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"
Bengal tigers springing at the hounds - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
Springing from the arms of night - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"
Of Love caught from the springing sod - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Spires springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Beauty springing from the sod - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Springing bridges of crimson lacquer - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
The buried seed to springing roots gives birth - Caroline F. Orne "Sonnet [Hid in the bosom of life-giving earth]" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
The springless January of his beginning to be gone - Mary Jo Bang "No Exit"
Springtime.
A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"
Some crank in me tightens the whirly-spring - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]
Many a heart which sprung fresh into life - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Bastard mushrooms sprung from a pollution of blood - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
Had sprung complete from darkness - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
The turf alone tells whence he sprung - D.F. "Monument and Turf" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.725, 17 Nov. 1877]
Light from her native surge she sprung - Prof. Goodrich, Yale College "Venice as it Was and as it Is (written in 1826)" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Sprung from these greater furrows - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"
A communion of that sprung blood - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"
For both are sprung from clay - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
And fierce to vengeance sprung - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
The flowers of Eden sprung - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Sprung from Dodona's tree oracular - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Time his hinge had backward sprung - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Together sprung, before the birth of time - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Some plot sprung, cruelly, at the last - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
A sky-lark in his strength upsprung - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
With bottles, bones, and wire-springs - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Garden"
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