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... month is the literary favourite , but the spring is certainly in the lead , though when it comes to apostrophizing a whole season rather than a month , autumn becomes a near rival to spring . It is remarkable that the first poet to ...
... month is the literary favourite , but the spring is certainly in the lead , though when it comes to apostrophizing a whole season rather than a month , autumn becomes a near rival to spring . It is remarkable that the first poet to ...
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... month and more before even winter began . They were , as an old don used to say , very proleptic . The poets , though most of them have seen spring before it arrived , wait for February ; and almost the best of all pre - vernal verses ...
... month and more before even winter began . They were , as an old don used to say , very proleptic . The poets , though most of them have seen spring before it arrived , wait for February ; and almost the best of all pre - vernal verses ...
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... month of the year ; but one American poet at any rate delighted in the month supremely . " The April winds are magical And thrill our tuneful frames ; The garden walks are passional To bachelors and dames . The hedge is gemmed with ...
... month of the year ; but one American poet at any rate delighted in the month supremely . " The April winds are magical And thrill our tuneful frames ; The garden walks are passional To bachelors and dames . The hedge is gemmed with ...
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A. C. Swinburne Alexander Pope autumn beauty bees birds bloom blossoms botanic boughs breath called century charming colour cultivated daisies delight dial earth England English eyes famous favourite field fountains fruit Garden of Eden Gilbert White golden grass green groves grow H. A. L. Fisher happy hath hedge herbs J. B. S. Haldane John Evelyn labour lawn leaves less lilies live look Lord meadow motto nature never orchard Paradise perhaps physic garden pink plants pleasant pleasure poets Queen romance roses round scent season seed seen shade sing smell soil sort spring summer sweet Sylvia Townsend Warner thee things thou thought Timothy trees tulips unto vegetable verse violet W. H. Davies W. H. Hudson walk wall weeds wild flowers wilderness William William Shakespeare wind winter wood