In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd…

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in…

— Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

— Winifred Mary Letts

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own,…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

— Robert Browning

The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, And quivers in the…

— Julian Grenfell

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

— A. E. Housman

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all…

— Ogden Nash

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in…

— Paul Fleischman

Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story…

— William Shakespeare

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

— William Browne

The shot heard round the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson