“Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid
A million buds but stay their blossoming
And trustful birds have built their nests amid
The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing
Till one soft shower from the south shall bid
And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.”
The Growth of Love http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=510395, Sonnet 6 (1876).
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British writer 1844–1930Related quotes

"A Little Longer".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)

“I sing as the bird sings
That lives in the boughs.”
Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt
Der in den Zweigen wohnet.
Bk. II, Ch. 11
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

A Birthday http://www.poetry-online.org/rossetti_christina_a_birthday.htm, st. 1 (1861).
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

(3rd March 1827) Birthday in Spring
The London Literary Gazette, 1827

Miss Mehitabel's Son; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567