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See spring is gone,
ah wail, ah wail in vain,
for spring is dead.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "White Rose.")
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I have no more patience for this Europe where Autumn wears the face of Spring and Spring reeks of misery.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Martha in The Misunderstanding, act 2, sc. 1, Pléiade (1962).)
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Ae spring brought off her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail:
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. Tam o' Shanter (l. 215-216). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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Spring is like a perhaps hand
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. Spring is like a perhaps hand (l. 1). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring,
(Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Italian poet. Aminta (l. 7-9). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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In spring, when woods are getting green,
I'll try and tell you what I mean:
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British poet. Through the Looking-Glass. . ;
pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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Spring is the Period
Express from God.
(Emily Dickinson (1831-1886), U.S. poet. "Spring is the Period": poem no. 844 in her Collected Poems, lines 1-2 (c. 1864).)
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to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. Since feeling is first (l. 5-7). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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A spring,
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 351-353). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Noiselessly as the spring-time
Her crown of verdure weaves,
(Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895), Irish poet. The Burial of Moses (l. 17-18). . .
Best Loved Religious Poems, The. James Gilchrist Lawson, comp. (1933) Fleming H. Revell Company.)
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