Literary notes about spring bud (AI summary)
In literature, "spring bud" is often invoked as a vivid color that symbolizes new growth, hope, and youthful vitality. Authors use the image of a bursting green bud to evoke a sense of dynamic renewal—its sudden, vibrant intensity mirroring breakthroughs or fresh beginnings, as in the simile of speed being "like a spring bud hard in bursting" [1]. This lush green hue is also contrasted with decay or ripeness, such as when the delicate freshness of a spring bud is set against withered autumn leaves to illustrate everlasting youth [2] or juxtaposed with a "ripe sheaf" to underscore the interplay between maturity and nascent promise [3]. Moreover, the evocative quality of this color is woven into lyrical expressions that celebrate nature’s reinvention, its bright character mirroring the emotional uplift found in joyful songs and picturesque rural scenes [4, 5, 6].
- But, like a spring bud hard in bursting, the delay was compensated by after speed.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy - There is in him, like the spring buds among the withered leaves of autumn, one never-dying fountain of youth.
— from A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham - One fate had united these extremes of human life, the ripe sheaf and the spring bud.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade - The glad spring buds within your happy song.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol 7, No. 2, February 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various - All was fresh, restful, beautiful, and so intensely green as to be suggestive of early Spring buddings.
— from The Solitary Farm by Fergus Hume - The Spring Bud , or Rural Scenery, in Verse; with descriptive Notes for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons.
— from The Adopted Daughter: A Tale for Young Persons by Elizabeth Sandham
