“When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.”
First chorus, line 65.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
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Algernon Charles Swinburne 87
English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic 1837–1909Related quotes
"Carric-thura". Compare:
Τὼ δ᾽ ἄνεῳ καὶ ἄναυδοι ἐφέστασαν ἀλλήλοισιν,
ἢ δρυσίν, ἢ μακρῇσιν ἐειδόμενοι ἐλάτῃσιν,
τε παρᾶσσον ἕκηλοι ἐν οὔρεσιν ἐρρίζωνται,
νηνεμίῃ· μετὰ δ᾽ αὖτις ὑπὸ ῥιπῆς ἀνέμοιο
κινύμεναι ὁμάδησαν ἀπείριτον.
The pair then faced each other, silent, unable to speak, like oaks or tall firs, which at first when there is no wind stand quiet and firmly rooted on the mountains, but afterwards stir in the wind and rustle together ceaselessly.
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III, lines 967–971 (tr. Richard Hunter)
The Poems of Ossian
“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
A Dream of Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A slow autumn rain:
The sad eyes of my mother
Fill a lonely night.”
Haiku: This Other World (1998)
Canto 8, stanza 11
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“and so the shadows ripple on
until it's time to part”
Shallows- a poem in the anthology Bog Myrtle & Peat (1921)
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