#Spring February 25

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2022 has brought to my part of the world some cold winter mornings. Over the past week there have been glimpses of SPRING.

For my daily poem as part of the 30-Day Poetry Coach4aday Challenge I wanted to read something about that season. I decided on something written by Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is often considered one of the better English Poets from the Victorian Era.

Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

This poem points out specific examples, such as weeds, eggs in birds’ nests, bird songs, lambs, blue skies, and lush greenery, the poem elaborates on the beauty and freshness of the world. That is what we all hope for after winter.

The poem is also in the public domain, so I am including it in its entirety.

SPRING

 Nothing is so beautiful as spring –
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
    The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
    The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
    The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
    With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.

    What is all this juice and all this joy?
    A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
    In Eden garden. Have, get, before it cloy,
    Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
    Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
    Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.