Spring In Words and Song

Early Signs of Spring

Now that the winter's gone, the earth has lost

Her snow-white robes; and now no more the frost

Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream

Upon the silver lake or crystal stream

Thomas Carew

A light exists in spring
Not present in the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here

Emily Dickinson

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.

Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents.

Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;

Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring.

Thomas Nashe

Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father,

There is no shadow of turning with thee;

There is a garden in her face

Where roses and white lilies grow;

When morning gilds the skies,

My heart awaking cries;

May Jesus Christ be praised. 

When you begin the day,

O never fail to say,

May Jesus Christ be praised!

Every day He comes to me with new assurance,

More and more I understand His words of love;

But I'll never know just why He came to save me

Till some day I see His blessed face above. 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow,

Praise Him all creatures here below.

Linking to:
Amaze Me Monday