FOUR SEASONS: SPRING

“In Spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful”
(opening of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon)

“Her face, delicate as jade, is desolate beneath the heavy tears.
Like a spray of pear blossom in Spring veiled in drops of rain”
(Po Chu-i- on Yang Kwei Fei)

Robert Browning: Home Thoughts from Abroad
“Oh, to be in England,
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the...