Have You Heard This Before?
“March comes in with an adder’s head, and goes out with a peacock’s tail.”
– Richard Lawson Gales
“Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing under the sky’s gray arch; Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.”
– William Wordsworth
“Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise; In days of peril firm and brave, And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.”
– Unattributed Author
“Ah, March! We know thou art Kind-hearteli, spite of ugly looks and threats. And, out of sight, art nursing April’s violets!”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? 0 welcome, thou that bring’st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.”
– William Morris
“March: Its motto, ‘Courage and strength in times of danger.’”
– William Morris
“Beware the ides of March.”
– William Shakespeare
“In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.”
– Algernon Charles Swinbume
“With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!”
– Bayard Taylor
“All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; it was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March.. morning I heard them call my soul.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson