When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain . . .
Source: Atlanta in Calydon.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, (Apr 5 1837-1909), English poet, critic; He was the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt due to his outstanding prosodic innovations, e.g., insistent alliteration and sheer melodiousness.