Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.

—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

The meadow your walks have left so sweet

That wherever a March wind sighs,

He sets the jewel-print of your feet

In violets blue as your eyes.

—ALFRED TENNYSON.

The warring hosts of Winter and of Spring

Are hurtling o’er the plains.

All night I heard their battle clarions ring