• Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.

    Dinah Maria Murlock Craik: Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! 
Year after year returning, with a brow 
Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, 
And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys 
Of vanished springs, like flowers.
    "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.