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by
Kobayashi Issa
In spring rain
In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Winter under cultivation
Winter under cultivation
Is as arable as Spring.
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by
Yosa Buson
The end of spring
The end of spring--
the poet is brooding
about editors.
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by
Yosa Buson
Lighting one candle
Lighting one candle
with another candle--
spring evening.
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by
Kobayashi Issa
Face of the spring moon
Face of the spring moon--
about twelve years old,
I'd say.
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by
Yosa Buson
The spring sea rising
The spring sea rising
and falling, rising
and falling all day.
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by
Matsuo Basho
First day of spring
First day of spring--
I keep thinking about
the end of autumn.
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by
Matsuo Basho
Spring rain
Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps' nest.
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by
Yosa Buson
The willow leaves fallen
The willow leaves fallen,
the spring gone dry,
rocks here and there.
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by
Kobayashi Issa
Under the image of Buddha
Under the image of Buddha
all these spring flowers
seem a little tiresome.
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by
William Morris
Spring
Spring am I, too soft of heart
Much to speak ere I depart:
Ask the Summer-tide to prove
The abundance of my love.
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by
Robert Herrick
Upon Prew His Maid
In this little Urne is laid
Prewdence Baldwin (once my maid)
From whose happy spark here let
Spring the purple violet.
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by
Wang Wei
Duckweed Pond
Spring pond deep and wide
Time for the vessel’s return
Slow the duckweed flows together
Willows draw them apart again
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by
Emily Dickinson
Upon a Lilac Sea
Upon a Lilac Sea
To toss incessantly
His Plush Alarm
Who fleeing from the Spring
The Spring avenging fling
To Dooms of Balm
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by
Dimitris P Kraniotis
Rules and visions
Life counts
the rules;
the sunset, their exceptions.
Rain drinks up
the centuries;
spring, our dreams.
The eagle sees
the sunrays
and youth, the visions.
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Emily Dickinson
Spring comes on the World --
Spring comes on the World --
I sight the Aprils --
Hueless to me until thou come
As, till the Bee
Blossoms stand negative,
Touched to Conditions
By a Hum.
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Emily Dickinson
Spring is the Period
Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.
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William Allingham
A Memory
Four ducks on a pond,
A grass-bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing;
What a little thing
To remember for years-
To remember with tears!
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Walter Savage Landor
Ianthe
From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples down a sunny river;
Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass,
Cut down, and up again as blithe as ever.
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Wang Wei
Remembrance
A red berry grows
in the south country --
The boughs are full of them
when spring arrives.
Gather some, I pray,
and fill your pockets --
These are the best
forget-me-knots!
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Marina Tsvetaeva
The Window
In the sweet, Atlantic
Breathing of spring
My curtain's like a butterfly,
Huge, fluttering
Like a Hindu widow
To a pyre's golden blaze,
Like a drowsy Naiad
To past-window seas.
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Wendell Berry
For The Future
Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing
in time to come. How do we know?
They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee
that singing will ever be.
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Wang Wei
Birds Calling in the Ravine
I'm idle, as osmanthus flowers fall,
This quiet night in spring, the hill is empty.
The moon comes out and startles the birds on the hill,
They don't stop calling in the spring ravine.
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Emily Dickinson
A little Madness in the Spring
A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown --
Who ponders this tremendous scene --
This whole Experiment of Green --
As if it were his own!
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Friedrich von Schiller
The Sower
Sure of the spring that warms them into birth,
The golden seeds thou trustest to the earth;
And dost thou doubt the eternal spring sublime,
For deeds--the seeds which wisdom sows in time.
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