Good Morning du! "Spring"

[Guava Jelly]

Anne Bradstreet:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Edna St. Vincent Millay:
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Matthew Arnold:
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...

Robert Frost:
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Sarah Ban Breathnach:
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Nadine Stair:
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

Robert H. Schuller:
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Albert Camus:
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Robin Williams:
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!

Therese of Lisieux
The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.

Zen Proverb
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself

Robert Frost
He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love


William Shakespeare
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

:popcorn:
:D

[marzipanni]

1. With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino

"IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS"
From "As You Like It"

It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
These pretty country folks would lie,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that life was but a flower
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

And, therefore, take the present time
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
For love is crowned with the prime
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

William Shakespeare <1564-1616>

[Guava Jelly]

2. Cool thank you for posting that!

And best of mornings to you :D

[marzipanni]

3. Here is a link to an mp3 of "It Was a Lover and His Lass"

I think my brother used to play a recording of it around 1966 when he played the lute, and I was trying to remember some of the words to go along with the tune, because a beautiful spring day reminded me of it!
(click on the highlighted title under Songs from the plays)
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/shakespeare.html

[Guava Jelly]

5. I am amazed this popped back up

it dropped like a stone :)
Thanks for the link

[wildhorses]

4. hey ding a ding;

and that is why shakespeare is fabulous:loveya:

thanks for these:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

6. I am glad you liked them Wyldhorseys

Hey Ding a ding sounds so Rat Pack-ish to me.
Happy easter

[wildhorses]

9. proof posititve that the shake man was WAY ahead of his time

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear GoPsUx!

You always have the nicest threads, sweetie!

I do think a poet is hiding somewhere inside you...

This is a lovely thread!

And I thank you for it, today and always...:hug: :loveya:

[Guava Jelly]

8. I always love your threads as well calpeg

I posted it yesterday and it dropped like a brick.
It is weird how things pop up around here.

I once wrote a poem in Junior High school and got a F on it because the teacher thought I plagiarized it.
I guess it must have been a good poem.
Coincidentally it was about spring.
:hug: :loveya:

[skygazer]

10. I had that happen with a 9th grade English paper

Soured me on really trying in that class for the rest of the year.

But at any rate, I love the quotes, too - particularly the Edna St. Vincent Millay. That's it in a nutshell.

[Guava Jelly]

11. It is in a weird way a compliment and a dog at the same time.

Like it's so good you couldn't have possibly wrote it.
:eyes: