| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47220 |
| QUOTATION: | Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894), British poet. Winter: My Secret (l. 23–27). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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