Winter is far from over, but we long for the end of the cold and dark days: hopefully, it will thaw soon, and the dreary grayness will come to an end. We are waiting for the first March sun and the return of the songbirds, for with spring, color and life finally return to nature. This selection of the most beautiful spring poems ranges from Goethe's "Mailied" to Ingeborg Bachmann's "Sterne im März," from Brockes' "Kirschblüte bei der Nacht" and Mascha Kaléko's "Frühlingslied" to Mörike's hymn "Er ist's": "Spring lets its blue ribbon / flutter through the air again." Isolde Ohlbaum has photographed the most beautiful harbingers of spring for this book, from crocus to hyacinth: the long-awaited season can begin.