Spring

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Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer.

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• Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.
  • James Thomson, Spring in The Seasons

• The flowers anew returning seasons bring,
  But beauty faded has no second spring.
  • Ambrose Philips, Pastoral

• If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

• The year's at the spring,
  And day's at the morn;
  Morning's at seven;
  The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
  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's Song in Pippa Passes

• Is it so small a thing
  To have enjoy'd the sun,
  To have lived light in the spring,
  To have loved, to have thought, to have done;
  • Matthew Arnold, "From the Hymn of Empedocles"

• Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.
  • Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992

• O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 scene 3

• Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
  When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
  Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
  Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
  The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring"

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• An optimist is the human personification of spring.
  • Susan J. Bissonette

• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
  • Victor Hugo

• Love and flowers do not survive but one spring.
  • Pierre de Ronsard

• Spring is when life's alive in everything
  • Christina Rossetti

• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
  • George Santayana

• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
  • Henry van Dyke

• Spring is nature's way of saying "let's party!"
  • Robin Williams

• In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short.
  • Zen saying

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