Spring
Spring - context Summary
Composed for Spring Celebration
"Spring" is a short pastoral lyric included in Blake's earliest collection, Poetical Sketches. Framed as a simple, celebratory scene of birds, children, and a lamb, the poem functions as an occasion piece for springtime renewal and communal merriment. Its repeated refrains and direct address make it suitable for performance or singing, emphasizing seasonal joy rather than introspective or political themes within Blake's later work.
Read Complete AnalysesSound the flute! Now it's mute! Bird's delight, Day and night, Nightingale, In the dale, Lark in sky,-- Merrily, Merrily merrily, to welcome in the year. Little boy, Full of joy; Little girl, Sweet and small; Cock does crow, So do you; Merry voice, Infant noise; Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year. Little lamb, Here I am; Come and lick My white neck; Let me pull Your soft wool; Let me kiss Your soft face; Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.
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