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

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new broods of life to nurture and provide for.
01 - Fifty Shades of April - An Introduction

02 - In April by Rainer Maria Rilke

03 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

04 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge

05 - April Rain by Mathilde Blind

06 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage

07 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson

08 - April by Sara Teasdale

09 - On a Nightingale in April by William Sharpe

10 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt

11 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare

12 - Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman

13 - Sonnet To April by Henry Kirk White

14 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith

15 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman

16 - A Petition To April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire

17 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman

18 - The Days of Spring by Hafiz

19 - A Pang Is More Conspicuous in Spring by Emily Dickinson

20 - Easter by Edmund Spenser

21 - A Spring Carol by Christina Georgina Rossetti

22 - Dublin, Easter 1916 by Alice Furlong

23 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets

24 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas

25 - April, 1918 by Henry Christopher Bradby

26 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen

27 - The Easter Flower by Claude McKay

28 - April 1844 by Henry Alford

29 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan

30 - Child's Talk in April by Christina Georgina Rossetti

31 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin

32 - The Famous Speech Maker of England or Baron Lovel's Charge at the Assizes at Exon April 5th 1710 by Jonathan Swift

33 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

34 - Rome - Building a New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy

35 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay

36 - April by John Bannister Tabb

37 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning

38 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

39 - Over the Lands In April by Robert Louis Stevenson

40 - Spring Morning by A E Housman

41 - Cuckoo Song By Rudyard Kipling

42 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth

43 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne

44 - An April Love by Alfred Austin

45 - Another Song - an extract from Divine Songs and Meditacions by An Collins

46 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring by William Shakespeare

47 - So Sweet Love Seemed That April Morn by Robert Seymour Bridges

48 - My April Lady by Henry Van Dyke

49 - Love Like an April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess

50 - With A Guitar, To Jane by Percy Bysshe Shelley

51 - The Shepheardes Calendar IV - April by Edmund Spenser