45+ Mary Oliver Spring Poems Pics. I lift my face to the pale flowers of the rain. All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early spring.
Nature is central to oliver's idea of god.
Oliver often wrote about the constant reminders of death in life in poems like death at a great distance and when death comes. Her description of dancing starlings in the sky spoke to my childhood experience and for a moment i recaptured that tingling feeling of joy. Here are ten of our favourite poems about spring, which we reckon are among the finest spring poems in the english language. Spring by mary oliver | poetry magazine.