“Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.”
James Thomson (poet) The Seasons
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1.
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“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.”
Lauren Weisberger book Un anello da Tiffany
Source: Chasing Harry Winston
“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?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley book Ode to the West Wind
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/