“All that was ever told of Arthur, the man of the merry month of May, happened at Whitsun or at blossom-time in Spring.”
Artûs der meienbære man,
swaz man ie von dem gesprach,
zeinen pfinxten daz geschach,
odr in des meien bluomenzît.
Bk. 6, st. 281, line 16; p. 147.
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Artûs der meienbære man,<br/>swaz man ie von dem gesprach,<br/>zeinen pfinxten daz geschach,<br/>odr in des meien bluomenzît.
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German knight and poet 1170–1220Related quotes
Ode http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/128.html, l. 1. Alternately, Address to the Nightingale; historically misattributed to William Shakespeare.
Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
Context: As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;
Every thing did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone.
“What happens to one man may happen to all.”
Maxim 171
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms.”
Daffodil; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“For roses also blossom on the thorn,
And the fair lily springs from loathsome weed.”
Che de le spine ancor nascon le rose,
E d'una fetida erba nasce il giglio.
Canto XXVII, stanza 121 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom