Spring

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Spring(s) may refer to:

• Spring (season), a season of the year
• Spring (hydrosphere), a natural source of water
• Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy

Art

• Primavera (painting) ("Spring"), a painting by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482.
• Spring (painting), an oil by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Spring, a painting by Christopher Williams

Business

• Spring!, a brand of bottled water
• Spring Airlines, a Chinese airline
• Spring (store), a Canada-based shoe retailer

Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer.

Sourced

• Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.
  • James Thomson, Spring in The Seasons

• The flowers anew returning seasons bring, But beauty faded has no second spring.
  • Ambrose Philips, Pastoral

• If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

• The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven-- All's right with the world !　
  • Robert Browning, Pippa's Song in Pippa Passes

• Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done;
  • Matthew Arnold, "From the Hymn of Empedocles"

• Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.
  • Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992

• O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 scene 3

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