"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
- William Wordsworth, Daffodils
"Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and
fell,
and the splendor of winter had passed out
of sight,
The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger
than dreams that fulfill us in sleep with
delight;
The breath of the mouths of the winds had hardened on tree-tops
and branches that glittered and swayed
Such wonders and glories of blossom like snow
or of frost that outlightens all flowers
till it fade
That the sea was not lovelier than here was the land,
nor the night than the day, nor the day
than the night,
Nor the winter sublimer with storm than the spring:
such mirth had the madness and might in
thee made,
March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms
that enkindle the season they smite."
- Algernon C. Swinburne, March:
An Ode
March: Quotations, Poems, Sayings, Lore
The Spirit of Gardening
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