Seasonal Quotes

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
BIBLE, Song of Solomon 2:10­12
"Turtle" here refers to a turtledove."

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven_
All's right with the world!
ROBERT BROWNING, "Pippa Passes"

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S. ELIOT, "The Waste Land"

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
ROBERT FROST, "Two Tramps in Mud Time"

Hard is the heart that loveth nought
In May.
GUILLAUME DE LORRIS AND JEAN DE MEUN, "The Romaunt of the Rose" translated by Chaucer, c. 1370

April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, "Spring"

Spring makes everything young again, save man.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER, "Hesperus"

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, "Locks- ley Hall"