Fifty Shades of March: 50 of the best poems about the month of March

The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land. Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth.
50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the landscape, its fauna and wildlife that amplify our moods, feelings, thoughts and desires on this month of March.

1 - Fifty Shades of March - An Introduction

2 - March - An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne

3 - To My Sister by Wiliam Wordsworth

4 - March by A E Housman

5 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

6 - To Daffodils by Robert Herrick

7 - A Shropshire Lad XXIX - The Lent Lilly by A E Housman

8 - To a Daisy Found Blooming March 7th by John Hartley

9 - Extract of Spring Day by Amy Lowell

10 - The Year's at the Spring by Robert Browning

11 - March Written by William Morris

12 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

13 - Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

14 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield

15 - In March by Archibald Lampman

16 - An Extract of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

17 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran

18 - Again Comes the Spring by Hafiz

19 - Written in March by William Wordsworth

20 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford

21 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell

22 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift

23 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen

24 - March by John Payne

25 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson

26 - A March Minstrel by Alfred Austin

27 - A Little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson

28 - Spring by William Morris

29 - To March by Emily Dickinson

30 - Spring's Bedfellow by William Morris

31 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale

32 - Spring Showers by James Thomson

33 - A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

34 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman

35 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan

36 - To Spring by William Blake

37 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg

38 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson

39 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge

40 - The Spring by Thomas Carew

41 - March Evening by Amy Lowell

42 - In the Green and Gallant Spring by Robert Louis Stevenson

43 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy

44 - Written In London on 19th March, 1796 by Matilda Betham

45 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence

46 - Spring Wind in London by Katherine Mansfield

47 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris

48 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay

49 - My Little March Girl by Paul Laurence Dunbar

50 - These, I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman

51 - The Shepherd's Calendar - March by John Clare