APRIL QUOTES II

quotations about April

The uncertain glory of an April day!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Two Gentlemen of Verona


April warms the world anew.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

The Year of Love


April this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ago
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again, and butterflies.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

"Song of a Second April"


I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
Till April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom
Holiday tables under the trees
April in Paris, this is a feeling
That no one can ever reprise

ELLA FITZGERALD

"April in Paris"


The lyric sound of laughter
Fills all the April hills,
The joy-song of the crocus,
The mirth of daffodils.

CLINTON SCOLLARD

April Music


For April sobs while these are so glad
April weeps while these are so gay--
Weeps like a tired child who had,
Playing with flowers, lost its way.

HELEN HUNT JACKSON

"April", Verses


April comes in with his hack and his bill
And sets a flower on every hill.

JOHN DENHAM

Proverbs


Now the noisy winds are still;
April's coming up the hill!
All the spring is in her train,
Led by shining ranks of rain;
Pit, pat, patter, clatter,
Sudden sun and clatter patter!

MARY MAPES DODGE

Now the Noisy Winds are Still


Make me over, Mother April,
When the sap begins to stir!
Make me man or make me woman,
Make me oaf or ape or human,
Cup of flower or cone of fir;
Make me anything but neuter
When the sap begins to stir!

BLISS CARMAN

Spring Song


April. Month of dust and lies.

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

Adrift on the Nile


The April's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Antony and Cleopatra


Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.

REBECCA MCNUTT

Shadowed Skies


If you've forgotten how we met in April rain,
Wait till April comes again.

MEL TORMÉ

"When April Comes Again"


Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn
Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May
New blooming blossoms 'neath the sun are born,
And all poor April's charms are swept away.

JOHN CLARE

"The Last of April", The Village Minstrel and Other Poems


Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life


Snow in April is abominable ... like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.

L.M. MONTGOMERY

Anne of Ingleside


But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.

WILLIAM COWPER

letter to the Rev. Walter Bagot, June 3, 1787


April's rare capricious loveliness.

JULIA C.R. DORR

November


That particular April day was strange and foggy, blurring spaces between the trees and blanketing all of Ellingham in a milky mist.

MAUREEN JOHNSON

Truly Devious


I've got pieces of April, I keep them in a memory bouquet
I've got pieces of April, but it's a morning in May

THREE DOG NIGHT

"Pieces of April"