30+ Poems for Spring with Nature Study Links

When spring is finally in the air I cannot wait to get outside and experience nature on a regular basis again. While we do make an effort to enjoy the outdoors in every season, winter has us inside much more than any other time of the year.

Choosing great poems (and read alouds!) that evoke the pleasures, sounds, smells and wonders of the springtime woods and fields is a great way to prepare and get even more out of our springtime excursions.

I hope you and your family can enjoy some of these poems this spring. May they inspire you (as they do me) to notice the daffodils, skunk cabbage, nesting birds and other joys of the season!

If you want to study some of these topics by the way on your nature walks, I have linked to the incomparable Handbook of Nature Study, free nature lore books or other online sources.

But, as always, the most important thing is just to get outside and enjoy all the season has to offer!

Skunk Cabbage by Mary Oliver (learn about skunk cabbage)

Dream Song by Sara Teasdale (learn about snowdrops or use this nature lesson about snowdrops)

The Crocuses Soliloquy by H.F. Gould (learn about the crocus)

The Crocuses by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (learn about the crocus)

The Spring by Thomas Carew (suggestions for a walk in early spring)

The First Dandelion by Walt Whitman (learn about the dandelion)

The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay (learn about the dandelion)

Dandelions by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (learn about the dandelion)

Spring by Eliza Cook (learn about flowering trees)

Easter Carol by Anna M. Pratt (learn about the hepatica)

Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth (learn about periwinkle)

I Know a Little Pussy  and Pussy Willows (traditional) (learn about the willows and the pussy willow)

Spring by William Blake (read about the return of the birds)

The Robin by Emily Dickinson (learn about the robin)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth (learn about the daffodil)

To Daffodils by Robert Herrick (learn about the daffodil)

Spring Miracles by Elizabeth Akers (learn about bulbs)

The Trees by Philip Larkin (learn about the awakening of trees)

The Lesser Celandine by William Wordsworth (learn about lesser celandine)

To Violets by Robert Herrick (learn about the violet)

Loveliest of Trees by A.E. Housman (learn about cherry trees here or here)

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale (learn about plum trees or swallows)

Swifts by Anne Stevenson (learn about swifts)

Putting in the Seed by Robert Frost (read about seed babies)

For Jane Meyers by Louise Gluck (learn about bluets)

The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay (learn about cattle/buffalo)

Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay (learn about spring flowers)

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad by Robert Browning (learn about the buttercup)

Odes Of Anacreon - Ode XLIV. Buds Of Roses, Virgin Flowers by Thomas Moore (learn about the rose family)

April Rain Song by Langston Hughes (use this nature lesson for a rainy day)

The Enkindled Spring by D.H. Lawrence (read a chapter about spring signs and growth)

The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (learn about the rhodora)

Mandrakes by Minie Curtis Waits (learn about the mayapple or mandrake)

A Mayapple Flower by Madison Julius Cawein (learn about the mayapple or mandrake)

Song on a May Morning by John Milton (learn about spring flowers)

[in Just-] by ee cummings (read a chapter of things to see this spring)

A Widow's Weeds by Walter de la Mare (learn about the pansy or read A Bunch of Wildflowers for the Children)

Four-Leaf Clover by Ella Higginson (learn about white clover)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman (learn about lilacs)

If you have enjoyed the nature study links on this page, be sure to check out Best Free Nature Lore Books. It is my most popular post for a reason! There so many amazing free books out there to enjoy. Happy spring!