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“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

Firsts May Stills Song Sky Color Spring Wings Speed Flight Southern Chill Blast Hue Bluebird

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Years Littles Remember White Four Sky Tears Spring Blue Wings Clouds Grass Little Things Ducks Ponds Blue Sky White Clouds

Author:William Allingham

“Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.”

Sky Sweet Spring Calm Rage Heat Breeze Zephyr

Author:Catullus

“The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.”

People Nations Ability Sky Greatness Spring Lifts Conception Abiding Majestic Absorption

Author:Alexander Crummell

“The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.”

Looks Earth Happiness Vision Air Sky Spring Blue Wings Poetry Is Butterfly April Springtime Frail Like A Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Book:Joyce Kilmer

Source: Joyce Kilmer

“With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!”

Children Dies Dark Sky Cry Wind Spring Winter Arise March Stubborn Unseen Rushing Gloomy Bidding

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.”

Men World Has Beens Light Evil Known Wonder Sky Blessing Spring Passing Innocent Passings Time Passing Time Passes Innocent Love

Author:R. S. Thomas

“There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.”

Ifs Should Light Known Sky Wind Spring Red Should Have Essence Clouds Warm Rising Sunshine Pale Sinking Restlessness Impulsive Prairie Should Have Known Blindfolds

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.”

Source: The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe

“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...”

Rich Sky Wind Spring Prophet Showers Unseen February Colorless

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”

Lasts Night Stars Sky Spring Western Mourn Lilac Western Sky

Author:Walt Whitman

“The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.”

Mind Sky Spring Rivers Mud Muddy Snarling

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.”

Mind Heart Grace Imagine Sky Source Spring Far Away Within You

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”

People Names Stars Water Sky Spring Angel Rivers Thirds Died Environmental Bitter Trumpets Torches Blazing Wormwood

Author:John the Apostle

“But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"”

Firsts Found Poor Sky Strange Spring Flight Aviation Heavenly Sigh Pathways Rapture Larks

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.”

Way Beautiful Time Song Fall Waiting Gone Tree Sky Spring Standing Seasons Winter Dues Naked Branches Leafs January Life Time Blown Away Fall Season

Book:This Matter of Culture

Source: This Matter of Culture

“Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.”

White Sky Wind Spring Blue Flying Poetry Is Yellow Tied Tails Silk Riddle Balloons Blue Sky Theorems Kites Handkerchiefs

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.”

Book Earth Sea Sky Land Spring Bird Plant Fishes Useless Beast Insects Sermons

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”

Men May Women Marriage Wife Sky Spring April Springtime December You Like It Maids

Author:William Shakespeare

“I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.”

Sun Tree Sky Spring Window Blue

Book:Bowl of Cherries: A Novel

Source: Bowl of Cherries: A Novel

“I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there’s one thing I haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”

Way Years Believe Stills Happens Knowing One Thing Air Sky Childhood Havens Changed Spring Okay Miracle Seven Breathe Fifty I Smile I Have Changed Miracles Can Happen

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”

“who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves”

People Ifs Knows Should House Cities Sky Flower Higher Moon Spring Picks Filled Clouds Astronomy Take Me Coming Out Sailing Balloons Steeples Love And Flower Pretty People

Book:Tulips and Chimneys

Source: Tulips and Chimneys

“I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.”

World Feels Looks Kind Light Sky Crazy Spring Miracle Green Storm Strikes Holes Sunset Pale Lightning Purple Boldness Acid July Noon Brightness Blushing Lush Acid Trip

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.”

Matter Sky Spring Logic Blue Intellect Stomach Blue Sky Sticky Brothers Karamazov

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter”

Saws Sky Cold Spring Lonely Blue Winter Chill Nurturing Blue Sky

Book:Seeds of yesterday

Source: Seeds of yesterday

“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.”

Stars Water Known Sky Sweet Needed Taste Spring Weakness Adversity Trials Desert Triumph Sand Tested Gleam Glisten Desert Sand

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

“I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”

Universe Sky Flower Horror Summer Spring Poison

Book:Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

Source: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

“Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".”

Lasts Beautiful Clear Sky Fine Spring Blue Woods Riding Last Words Your Beautiful Spring Day Stallions Bluebells

Author:Paul McCartney

“Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.”

Source: A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“You cannot force things to happen before their time. The Spring Will come and the flowers will blossom, but you cannot force the Spring. The Rain will come, the clouds will cover the sky, the whole thirst of the earth will be gone- but you cannot force it. And this is the beauty... that the more patient you are, the quicker is the coming of Spring.”

Whole Happens Earth Force Gone Sky Flower Spring Yoga Rain Patient Clouds Thirst

Author:Rajneesh

“Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!”

Source: New Poems and Variant Readings

“Winter's done, and April's in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!”

Looks Done Eye Earth Sky Spring Laughter Winter Look Up April Springtime

Author:Charles G.D. Roberts

“I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.”

Should Hands Lying Sound Break Rich Sky Mountain Spring Green Rounds Graves Pleasant Glorious Tunes Cheerful June Joyous Brooks Grove Turf

Author:William C. Bryant

“The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.”

Art Earth Air Feet Sky Spring Reflection Red Blue Warm Smell Dust Grass Soil Sunlight Springtime Blue Sky Saturated Spring Is Here

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.”

World Way Want Half Sky Color Moon Spring Bird Clouds Quarters Obscure Never Quit Brighter Lighting Melting

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?”

People Way Should Doe Stills Hard Play Light Seems Past Night Clear Tree Feet Sky Streets Bed Summer Spring Bird Dresses Blue Winter Get Up Yellow Candle June July Hopping Candle Lights

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“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.”

“Today is the day when bold kites fly, When cumulus clouds roar across the sky. When robins return, when children cheer, When light rain beckons spring to appear. Today is the day when daffodils bloom, Which children pick to fill the room, Today is the day when grasses green, When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.”

Children Light Today Rooms Sky Return Spring Picks Rain Green Clouds Grass Cheer Robins Kites Daffodil Today Is The Day

Author:Robert McCracken

“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

“In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew.”

Night Clear Sky Summer Spring Rain Breaths Refuse Grass Dry Blades July Dew

Author:James Ballantine

“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?”