April showers bring May flowers. [ Proverb ]
These children of the meadows, born
Of sunshine and of showers! [ Whittier ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow againe. [ Thos. Percy ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]
See, see what showers arise,
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. [ William Shakespeare ]
See daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth.
And bless the flowery buds succeeding birth. [ Prior ]
Upon her cheeks she wept, and from those showers
Sprang up a sweet nativity of flowers. [ Herrick ]
Welcome as kindly showers to long-parched earth. [ Dryden ]
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams. [ Shelley ]
Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]
Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers will never make grow again. [ Byron ]
Sorrows humanize our race; Tears are the showers that fertilize this world. [ Jean Ingelow ]
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. [ Bible ]
The April is in her eyes; it is love's spring, and these the showers to bring it on. [ William Shakespeare ]
The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful. [ Mme. Necker ]
Hushed as the falling dews, whose noiseless showers impearl the folded leaves of evening flowers. [ Congreve ]
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. [ Pope ]
O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. [ William Shakespeare ]
There may be as much courage displayed in enduring with resignation the sufferings of the soul, as in remaining firm under the showers of shot from a battery. [ Napoleon I ]
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]
Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]