April Quote by A. E. Housman

“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted with pale…

— Sarah Bower

On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk…

— John Townsend Trowbridge

“A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down came April…

— Walter de la Mare

Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there…

— Emma Lazarus

Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire…

— William Wordsworth

The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of SS Andrew…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

— Bertran de Born

“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots. Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots. Blue morning-glories climb trellises high. Powder-white asters like stars in the sky. Thick,…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Pedaling down the maple lined drive, quicksilver temper ebbed, her resilient spirits were lifted with the beauty of the day. The valley was stirring…

— Nora Roberts

“MOTHER – By Ted Kooser Mid April already, and the wild plums bloom at the roadside, a lacy white against the exuberant, jubilant green…

— Ted Kooser