April Quotes

“Spongy April.”

“Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!”

“Sweet April showers
Do bring May flowers.”

“Sweet April's tears,
Dead on the hem of May”

“When well apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”

“Wikipedia: April”

“If April showers
Should come your way,
They bring the flowers
That bloom in May.”

“When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

“Wiktionary: April”

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

“The April winds are magical,
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden-walks are passional
To bachelors and dames.”

“Of all the months that fill the year
Give April's month to me,
For earth and sky are then so filled
With sweet variety !”

“The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fools' Day;
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.”

“I love the season well
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
The coming on of storms.”

“A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew,
A cloud, and a rainbow's warning,
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue—
An April day in the morning.”

“Again the blackbirds sing; the streams
Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,
And tremble in the April showers
The tassels of the maple flowers.”

“Sweet April! many a thought
Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;
Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought,
Life's golden fruit is shed.”

“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.”

“The children with the streamlets sing,
When April stops at last her weeping;
And every happy growing thing
Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.”

“Every tear is answered by a blossom,
Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,
Apple-blooms upon the breezes toss them.
April knows her own, and is content.”