The equinox approaches, reason for everyone who is ready to see the end of this winter to begin celebrating spring. Our celebration is a new seasonal collection of poems. We’ll begin with a few classics:

• Tu Fu,
  “A Spring View” (c. 750), translated by Witter Bynner
  
  
• William Shakespeare,
  “Spring,” song from Love’s Labors Lost (1598)
  
  
• William Wordsworth,
  “Lines Written in Early Spring” (1798)
  
  
• Christina Rossetti,
  “Spring Quiet” (1847)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “A light exists in spring” (#85)
  
  
• Robert Frost,
  “A Prayer in Spring” (1915)
  
  
• D.H. Lawrence,
  “The Enkindled Spring” (1916)
  
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  “Spring” (1918)

We will be adding selected new poems to the collection, so keep an eye on this anthology over the next few weeks. You are invited to submit your own poems or suggest your favorite classics.