APRIL

Related Subjects: Month, Spring

1. April hieth, April spieth
   Everywhere. a lover lieth,
   Bringeth sweetness, bringeth fever,
   Will not stop at "I would liever,"
   Will not heed, "Now God a mercy!"
   Turneth Moral topsy-versy,
   Bringeth he and she to bed,
   Bringeth ill to maidenhead,
   Bringeth joyance in its stead.—STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, For City Spring

2. In April Rome was founded; Shakespeare died;
   The shot whose sound rang out from Concord town
   And brought an avalanche of echoes down,
   Shaking all thrones of tyranny and pride,
   Was fired in April; Sumter far and wide
   Lifted a voice the years will never drown;
   'Twas April when they laid the martyr's crown
   On Lincoln's brow.—SAMUEL V. COLE, In April
   

3. And not a girl goes walking
   Along the Cotswold lanes
   But knows men's eyes in April
   Are quicker than their brains.—JOHN DRINKWATER, Cotswold Love

4. The first day of April, you may send a fool whither you will.—Proverb
   

5. April borrows three days of March, and they are ill.—Proverb

6. O! how this spring of love resembleth
   The uncertain glory of an April day!—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
   

7. May never was the month of love,
   For May is full of flowers;
   But rather April, wet by kind,
   For love is full of showers.—ROBERT SOUTHWELL, Love's Servile Lot
   

8. April, April,
   Laugh thy girlish laughter;
   Then, the moment after,
   Weep thy girlish tears.—WILLIAM WATSON, Song