Spring May Quotes:

And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

topic: Dream, Spring, Flower, March Poems, Spring Day

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

- Hal Borland

topic: Spring, Winter, Forever, Spring Garden, Spring Inspirational

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

- George Herbert

topic: Sweet, Spring, Lying, May Flowers, Spring Day

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Spring, Calm, Spring Day, Spring Inspirational, Spring May

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

- John Galsworthy

topic: Spring, Men, May, Ineffable, Spring Day

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

topic: Spring, Rain, Fall, Spring Flowers, Spring Is Here

Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world

- Robert Browning

topic: Song, Morning, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Summer, Too Short, Lease, Love Poems, Spring May

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Kings, Spring, Insanity, March Poems, Spring Is Here

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Sweet, Flower, Moving, May Day, Spring May

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.

- Charles Kingsley

source: Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Children, Spring, Two, May Day, Spring May

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Spring Flowers, Spring May, Spring Season, Winter To Spring

When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Fire, Land, Purple, May Day, Punctual

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

- Robert Browning

topic: Heaven, World, March Poems, Spring Inspirational, Spring Is Here

All things seem possible in May.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

topic: May, Spring Garden, Spring Gardening, Spring May, Spring Poems

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

topic: Song, Sweet, Spring, Spring May, Twinkling

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Eagles, Wind, Bulls, May Day, Spring May

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Air, May, Honey, May Day, Spring May

Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.

- Denis Florence MacCarthy

source: Denis Florence MacCarthy “Poems”, Lulu.com

topic: Heart, Waiting, Scent, May Day, Spring May

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

- Rogers Hornsby

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Spring, Baseball Games, Great Sports

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

- Thomas Tusser

topic: Sweet, Spring, Flower, May Flowers, Spring Day

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Inspiring, Hope, Spring, May Flowers, Spring Day

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

- Robert Frost

topic: Spring, Wind, Sun, March Poems, Spring Day

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

- Hal Borland

topic: Spring, Promise, May, Spring Day, Spring Garden

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?

- Edward Giobbi

topic: Spring, Garden, Thinking, March Poems, May Flowers

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

- Hal Borland

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope, March Poems, Spring Garden

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

- Ellis Peters

source: Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.115, Head of Zeus

topic: Nature, Spring, Contentment, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Nature, Spring, Heart, March Poems, May Day

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Children, Spring, Earth, March Poems, Spring Awakening

May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.

- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

source: Edward Thurlow, “May”

topic: Queens, Flower, Giving, May Day, Spring May

O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

- Helen Hunt Jackson

topic: Sweet, Passion, Wine, May Day, Spring May

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Spring, World, Good Things, Spring May, Welcome Spring

From the end spring new beginnings.

- Pliny the Elder

topic: Spring, New Beginnings, Ends, Spring Day, Spring Inspirational

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Spring, Hoe, Matter, March Poems, May Day

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

topic: Spring, World, May, Spring Garden, Spring Gardening

Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Woods and groves are of thy dressing; Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

- John Milton

topic: Song, Morning, Stars, May Day, Spring May

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Spring, Symphony, Perfect, Spring Day, Spring May

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 18

topic: Summer, Spring, Wind, Love Poems, Spring May

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Spring, Real, Wind, Spring May, Spring Poems

The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

- Reginald Heber

source: Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.97

topic: Summer, Spring, Flower, Spring May, Lulls

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Spring, Judging, Causes, Spring May

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Spring, Feet, Rose, Spring May, Red Dawn

Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.27

topic: Summer, Spring, May, Spring May

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

- Thomas Moore

topic: Spring May, Vineyards