All things Quote by Mary Mapes Dodge

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

— Bayard Taylor

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“April comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds before the light comes across the heath. They…

— Ned Hayes

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are…

— John Clare

April is a promise of what's to come.

— Gladys Taber

When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I…

— Dallas Lore Sharp

When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill…

— John Keats

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May,…

— Christina Rossetti

The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be…

— Reginald Heber

The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the…

— William C. Bryant

“When April bends above me And finds me fast asleep, Dust need not keep the secret A live heart died to keep. When April…

— Sara Teasdale

But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson