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“The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back. Within the city's bounds the time of flowers Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day, Such as full often, for a few bright hours, Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May, Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom- And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.”

“Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, Grass and green world all together, Star-eyed strawberry breasted Throstle above Her nested Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin Forms and warms the life within, And bird and blossom swell In sod or sheath or shell.”

World Together Form Mother Asks Stars Growth Spring Bird Blue Green Flesh Grass Eggs Shells Feathers Fur Strawberries Clusters Sod Fleece Green World

Book:Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.”

Song Water Lord Air Summer Spring Bird Blessed September Summer Garden

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.”

Dream Seems Faces Air Spring Bird Wings Winter March Bees Springtime Stirring Slugs Smiling Faces

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in the whitethorn Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house: Full of sweet scents, And whispering air Which sayeth softly: We spread no snare; Here dwell in safety, Here dwell alone, With a clear stream And a mossy stone. Here the sun shineth Most shadily; Here is heard an echo Of the far sea, Though far off it be.”

House Sun Gone Clear Heard Air Sea Sweet Spring Bird Stones Safety Green Winter Spread Streams Echoes Scent Whispering Robins Snares Hollies Covert Thrush

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.”

Ifs Feels Stills Dream Wonder Sun Doubt Fire Spring Bird March Mates Frozen Springtime Stirring Robins Sap Kindling Crocuses Snowdrops

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.”

Heart Book Night Song Father Voice Christianity Lord Fields Flower Spring Bird Rain Fruit Heavy Lifts Sunshine Grants Worthwhile Toil Earnest Springtime Amen Dripping Books And Music

Book:Prayers for Dark People

Source: Prayers for Dark People

“Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.”

Looks Light Lost Tree Flower Walking Spring Bird Rivers Wave Branches Floating Peaches Willow Trees Peach Blossoms

Author:Wang Wei

“When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”

Years White Blood Sweet Kings Spring Bird Red Winter Edges Teeth Pale Dishes Peers Reign Sheets Ale Daffodil Bleaching Doxies

Author:William Shakespeare

“It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.”

Fields Sweet Lovers Spring Bird Green Rings Hey Corn You Like It Sweet Love Spring Time Lovers Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.”

Source: De rerum natura

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.”

Self Purpose Tree Spring Bird Tigers Fullness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.”

Ideas Ends Nature Environment Bed Summer Spring Bird Wake Up Good Ideas End Of Summer

Author:Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

“Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”

Way Littles Spiritual Fire Spring Bird Wings Winter Cups Repentance April Garments Springtime Fling

Book:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart.”

Heart Lasts Joy Song Beauty Magic Spring Bird Wounds Graves Urges Sincerity Reverence Solemnity Assembling

Author:Shaw Neilson

“The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.”

Ifs Long Faces Felt Black Lines Wind Spring Singing Bird Mark Lays Gray Shed Springtime Dullness

Book:Wayfaring Stranger

Source: Wayfaring Stranger

“January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December.”

Source: Rossetti: Poems

“A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?”

World Trying Firsts May Earth Song Air Spring Bird Rain Shining Lips Smell Grass Delicate Wet Fabric Floats Raindrops After The Rain Bird Song

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

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