quotations about April
The uncertain glory of an April day!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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"
Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
REBECCA MCNUTT
Shadowed Skies
April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
Adrift on the Nile
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"
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
The lyric sound of laughter
Fills all the April hills,
The joy-song of the crocus,
The mirth of daffodils.
CLINTON SCOLLARD
April Music
April warms the world anew.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
The Year of Love
April's rare capricious loveliness.
JULIA C.R. DORR
November
If you've forgotten how we met in April rain,
Wait till April comes again.
MEL TORMÉ
"When April Comes Again"
The April's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
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
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
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
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"
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 comes in with his hack and his bill
And sets a flower on every hill.
JOHN DENHAM
Proverbs
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
O sweet wild April came over the hills.
He skipped with the winds and he tripped with the rills;
His raimant was all of daffodils.
Sing hi, sing hey, sing ho!
WILLIAM FORCE STEAD
Sweet Wild April
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