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• There is not any haunt of prophecy,
  Nor any old chimera of the grave,
  Neither the golden underground, nor isle
  Melodious, where spirits gat them home,
  Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm
  Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured
  As April's green endures; or will endure
  Like her remembrance of awakened birds,
  Or her desire for June and evening, tipped
  By the consummation of the swallow's wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Home, June

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.22, Vintage

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• Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

  Robert Browning

  Morning, England

  'Home-Thoughts, from the Sea' (1845)

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• It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job.

  Jeff Randall

  Monday, Jobs, New Job

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• Late April and you are three; today
  We dug your garden in the yard.
  To curb the damage of your play,
  Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling,
  Four slender sticks of lath stand guard
  Uplifting their thin string.
  
  So you were the first to tramp it down.
  And after the earth was sifted close
  You brought your watering can to drown
  All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed
  With light loam in their steadfast rows.
  Child, we've done our best.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Uplifting, Dog, Children

  W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”

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• To what purpose, April, do you return again?
  Beauty is not enough.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Purpose, Return

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Spring, Earth Day

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• I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.

  Michael Flanders

  Sweet, Spring, Ice

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• My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

  Aldrich Ames

  Names, People, Giving

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• After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Soul, Stuff, Found

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

  Thomas Otway

  Clouds, Shining, Tears

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• So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not strange we thought that love could never change.

  Robert Bridges

  Sweet, Firsts, Strange

  'So sweet love seemed' (1894)

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Heart, Autumn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

  Graham Nelson

  Ends, Curse

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Clouds, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

  George Orwell

  Humility, Fools Day, Aggravation

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• IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

  Edward Carpenter

  Dream, Father, Land

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I shine in tears like the sun in April.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Shining, Tears, Sun

  Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.127, Manchester University Press

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  Yip Harburg

  Holiday, Paris, Tree

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Maids, December

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Sleep, Wish

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.74, Grove Press

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• In spring when maple buds are red,
  We turn the clock an hour ahead;
  Which means, each April that arrives,
  We lose an hour out of our lives.
  
  Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks
  Fly southward, back we turn the clocks,
  And so regain a lovely thing
  That missing hour we lost in spring.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Spring, Mean, Autumn

  Phyllis McGinley, “Daylight Savings Time”

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• The wind is tossing the lilacs,
  The new leaves laugh in the sun,
  And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
  But for me the spring is done.
  Beneath the apple blossoms
  I go a wintry way,
  For love that smiled in April
  Is false to me in May.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wall, Spring, Fall

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now

  Sara Teasdale

  Suicide, Rain, Suicidal

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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