springtide
nounEtymology From spring + -tide.
- The hawthorn is bursting in blossom, / The flowerets flush under our feet, / All round us life's pulses are throbbing;— / Sing, birdies, the Springtide to greet!1883, “Springtide”, in John Linwood Pitts, editor, The Patois Poems of the Channel Islands, second series, Guernsey: Guille-Allès Library, →OCLC, page 39:
- 'T is warbled by the bird / Whose springtide voice is heard; / 'T is told throughout the vale / By fragrance we inhale; / While every verdant lawn / Reveals it to the dawn.1895, Edward Octavus Flagg, “The Easter Song”, in Poems, second edition, and later poems, New York: Thomas Whittaker, page 236:
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- Fair now is the springtide, now earth lies beholding / With the eyes of a lover, the face of the sun; / Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding / The green-growing acres with increase begun.1900, William Morris, “The Message of the March Wind”, in Poems By the Way, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., →OCLC, page 33:
- Have ye no springtide, and no burst of May / In flowers and leafy trees, when solemn night / Pants with love-music, and the holy day / Breaks on the ear with songs of heavenly light?1953, Robert Bridges, “The Growth of Love”, in Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, 2nd edition, London: Oxford University Press, page 219: