“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.”
José Rizal
(1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
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?
“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."
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Walt Whitman
(1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Source: The Complete Poems
“The leafless orchard
Is alone day and night
With his pure and sad silence.”
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
(1928–1990) Iranian poet
Poem The Leafless Garden; Quoted in website devoted to the poet, 2013 http://www.mehdiakhavansales.com/the-leafless-garden/