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• Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

  John Denver

  Sweet, Song, Sleep

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• No days such honored days as these! While yet
  Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
  For some fair thing which should forever bide
  On earth, her beauteous memory to set
  In fitting frame that no age could forget,
  Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
  And leave it there, eternally allied
  To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Memories, Flower, Men

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Calendar Of Sonnets: April”

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• 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!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beautiful, Song, Children

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “New Poems and Variant Readings”, p.87, Read Books Ltd

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Flower, Rain

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Hope, Rain, Expectations

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, June, July

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

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• Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
  With sudden passion languishing,
  Teaching barren moors to smile,
  Painting pictures mile on mile,
  Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
  Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Teaching, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.163

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  Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Summer, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 16, 2015

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Rain, Land

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Clothes, Brilliant, Eternal

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• Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Fall, Rain, Sunshine

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.94, Xist Publishing

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• Spring slattern of seasons
  you have soggy legs
  and a muddy petticoat
  drowsy
  
  is your hair your
  eyes are sticky with
  dream and you have a sloppy body from
  
  being brought to bed of crocuses
  when you sing in your whisky voice
  the grass rises on the head of the earth
  and all the trees are put on edge
  
  spring
  of the excellent jostle of
  thy hips
  and the superior

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Eye, Voice

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• An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Twilight, Purple

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth, Uprising, Desert

  "The Vision". Book by Kahlil Gibran, October 1, 1994.

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wind, Sun

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• All things seem possible in May.

  Edwin Way Teale

  May, Seems, All Things

  Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

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• In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

  e. e. cummings

  Lame, World, May

  "Chansons Innocentes: I" l. 1 (1923)

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• Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Flower, Cutting, Hands

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• I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

  Virginia Woolf

  Autumn, Thinking, Doe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Fall

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

  Bill Veeck

  Sound, Bats, Balls

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• Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Moving, Dark, Air

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.1

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Insanity, Littles

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Long

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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