2 quotations linked to Spring — Christina Rossetti by or associated with Christina Rossetti, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Spring, living growth, birds, plants, transience, present beauty and the fact that renewed life also passes.
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“There is no life like Spring-life born to die.”
Rossetti places renewal beside mortality in the same phrase, making seasonal beauty meaningful partly because its new life is temporary.
Source note: “Spring,” Project Gutenberg #16950. This is a lyric reflection on transience, not a literal biological generalization about all life.
“There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything.”
Spring is praised as a concentrated moment of visible renewal, when growth in plants and birds makes seasonal change feel immediate and abundant.
Source note: “Spring,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems; Project Gutenberg #16950. The surrounding poem also stresses that spring passes and that spring-life is born to die.