Christina Rossetti Quotes

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Spring time is the land awakening.

Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Spring is very energising to me.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.