Who Said Spring

You may recognize these famous quotations that include the word, spring. But do you know who authored them? To test your knowledge (and make your literature teacher proud) match the sayings to their authors.

1. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

2. In the spring time, the only pretty ring time…

3. There’s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime, (from a song)

4. A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

5. In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

6. In just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

7. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

8. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!

9. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.

10. Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

AUTHORS

• Alexander Pope
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• E.E. Cummings
• Emily Dickinson
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• James A. Bland
• Margaret Atwood
• Nadine Stair
• Victor Hugo
• William Shakespeare

ANSWERS

Quote            Author

1.            A

2.            J

3.            F

4.            D

5.            B

6.            C

7.            G

8.            E

9.            H

10.             I