Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, April 1850

A. E. Chalon, R.A. W. H. Egleton
GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE.
Vol. XXXVI. April, 1850. No. 4.
Table of Contents
Fiction, Literature and Articles
Poetry, Music, and Fashion
GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE.
Vol. XXXVI. PHILADELPHIA, April, 1850. No. 4.
“The shower is past, the birds renew their songs,
And sweetly through its tears the landscape smiles.”
“April,” says the author of the “Fairie Queene,” “is Spring—the juvenile of the months, and the most feminine—never knowing her own mind for a day together. Fickle as a fond maiden with her first lover; toying it with the young sun till he withdraws his beams from her, and then weeping till she gets them back again.” April is frequently a very sweet and genial month, partly because it ushers in the May, and partly for its own sake. It is to May and June what “sweet fifteen,” in the age of woman, is to the passion-stricken eighteen, and perfect two-and-twenty. It is to the confirmed Summer, what the previous hope of joy is to the full fruition—what the boyish dream of love is to love itself. It is, indeed, the month of promises—and what are twenty performances compared with one promise? April, then, is worth two Mays, because it tells tales of May in every sigh that it breathes, and every tear that it lets fall. It is the harbinger, the herald, the promise, the prophecy, the foretaste of all the beauties that are to follow it—of all and more—of all the delights of Summer, and all the “pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious Autumn.” It is fraught with beauties itself, which no other month can bring before us.
“When proud, pied April, dressed in all his trim,