Spring, with thanks to

Day 30: write a cento. This is a poem that is made up of lines taken from other poems. A good way to jump-start the process is to find an online collection of poems about a particular topic (or in a particular style), and then mine the poems for good lines to string together.

Argh! Just what i don't need on a busy Saturday! Intriguing idea, but necessity kept it short.  I've given the source poems afterwards,  in case you have time and inclination to read the originals - fantastic poems,  all of them.  


Nothing is as beautiful as spring                          
Young leaves clothe early hedgerow trees        
The budding twigs spread out their fan             
The edge of the blackthorn clumps in gold.    
I watched a blackbird on a budding sycamore - 
Now rings the woodland loud and long           
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.                        
And April I love for what                                    
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything         
when the world is puddle-wonderful       

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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring
Christina Rosetti, Spring
Wordsworth, Lines Written in Early Spring
John Clare, Young Lambs
Thomas Hardy,  I Watched a Blackbird
Tennyson, Canto CXV In Memoriam
Percy Shelley, To a Skylark
Edward Thomas, The Thrush
Shakespeare,  Sonnet 98
e e cumings in just-

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