Spring. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Spring


So forth issued the seasons of the year: First, lusty Spring all dight in leaves of flowers, That freshly budded and new blooms did bear, In which a thousand birds had built their bowers, That sweetly sung to call forth paramours. Spenser.—The Fairy Queen, Book VI. On Mutability, Canto VII. Stanza 28.	1
Next came the loveliest pair in all the ring, Sweet female Beauty hand in hand with Spring. Burns.—Brigs of Ayr.	2
The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries. Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II. Scene 1. (Titania to Oberon.)	3
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze. Cowper.—Tirocinium, Line 43.	4
But when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn? O when shall it dawn on the night of the grave? Beattie.—The Hermit, Verse 4.	5