“Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1.
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“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”
Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
“O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
St. V
Source: Ode to the West Wind (1819)
Context: Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”
“When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 17
“Buttercups and Daisies—
Oh, the pretty flowers,
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.”
"Buttercups and Daisies," http://books.google.com/books?id=jrwkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Buttercups+and+daisies+Oh+the+pretty+flowers+Coming+ere+the+Spring+time+To+tell+of+sunny+hours%22&pg=PA119#v=onepage The Christmas Library: Birds and flowers and other country things, Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=ezkGfAEACAAJ&q=%22Buttercups+and+daisies+Oh+the+pretty+flowers+Coming+ere+the+Spring+time+To+tell+of+sunny+hours%22 (1837).