Ever since the Troubadours, the theme of spring and love go together in poetry/song. So here's the chorus from one the songs in the Gypsy Scholar's "The Troubadours & The Beloved" musical essay series,"You Must Believe In Spring:"

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"So in a world of snow, / Of things that come and go, / Where what you think you know, / You can't be certain of, / You must believe in Spring and love."

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Compare this modern love song with the Romantic poet Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (1819). The speaker invokes the "wild West Wind" of autumn, which scatters the dead leaves and spreads seeds so that they may be nurtured by the spring, and asks that the wind, a "destroyer and preserver," hear him. The speaker calls the wind the "dirge / Of the dying year," and describes how it stirs up violent storms, and again implores it to hear him. The speaker says that the wind stirs the Mediterranean from "his summer dreams," and cleaves the Atlantic into choppy chasms, making the "sapless foliage" of the ocean tremble, and asks for a third time that it hear him. Speaking both in regard to the season and in regard to the effect upon mankind that he hopes his words to have, the speaker asks:

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"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"