“All the woodland path is broken
By warm tints along the way,
And the low and sunny slope
Is alive with sudden hope
When there comes the silent token
Of an April day,—
Blue hepatica!”
Hepatica, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 365.
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U.S. poet 1866–1953Related quotes

Quotes, 1881 - 1890, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg', August 1890
Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) First lines

The Hospital Window (l. 1–4).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“The way of truth is along the path of intellectual sincerity.”
Address to students, quoted in Abraham Flexner, Henry S. Pritchett: A Biography (Columbia University Press, 1943; University of Virginia digitization, May 2, 2008, 211 pages), p. 192

“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”