A weed is but an unloved flower.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox ↗

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Author or tradition: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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March winds and April showers Bring forth May flowers.

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Meaning: Unpleasant early weather is linked with a pleasing later display of flowers. The sequence can express hope that present conditions help prepare a later benefit.

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02Undated

April and May are the keys of the year.

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Meaning: The saying treats April and May as decisive months for what the rest of the year will yield. Keys picture their conditions as opening or closing later possibilities.

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03Undated

When April blows his horn, It's both good for hay and corn.

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Meaning: April’s wind is pictured as a horn announcing favourable conditions for hay and corn. The saying links an early-season sign with a hoped-for later yield.

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04Undated

April borrows three days of March, and they are ill.

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Meaning: A few unpleasant April days are imagined as borrowed from March. The months are personified to describe weather that seems out of place in the new season.

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