How can a Bard Stay Silent? Palatine Anthology. From the 10th century.

Winter storms have vanished from the sky. Flowery springtime's purple season smiles. Dark earth is garlanded with verdant grass and plants are burgeoning with leafy tresses.

Drinking the soft dew of the nurturing dawn, meadows laugh as rosebuds burst in bloom. Shepherds rejoice at piping  on the mountains while goatherds take delight in dappled kids.

Already sailors  navigate wide seas as harmless zephyrs belly out their sails. Already, garlanding their heads with ivy, men shout EMOI! to clustered Dionysus.

Honeybees born from carcasses of oxen (Virgil mentions that bees were thought to spontaneously  generate from decayed flesh. Virgil also used the same word for hell, if one does not hear the birds singing.) tend to their lovely works, and congregating on hives build wild honeycomb of fresh white wax.

Races of birds all sing their high-pitched notes: swallows on roofs, kingfishers on waves, swans on riverbanks, nightingales in the forrest.

If foliage rejoices, earth is blooming,

sailors set sail and Dionysus dances,

birds make music, honeybees give birth -

How can a bard stay silent in the Springtime?

- Meleager I may be mistaken about the 10th century? Meleager was active in 100 BC? He was a cynic, a philosopher, and he wrote epigrams of love. The poems (and some satire), I think, were compiled in the 10th century?