The age-old saying “April Showers Bring May Flowers” still holds true today. But just how did this fun saying originate?
The poem as we know it today originated all the way back to 1557, in the form of a short poem written by Thomas Tusser. The poem can be found in the April section of a collection of his writings titled, “A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry.” The poem goes as follows:
"Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers
At the end of the Fourteenth Century legendary poet Geoffrey Chaucer had his own saying on the month of April in his famous collection of stories titled, “The Canterbury Tales.” We can say he is the grandfather of the saying. Chaucer’s version goes as follows:
Original:
“Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;”
Translation:
“When in April the sweet showers fall
That pierce March’s drought to the root and all
And bathed every vein in liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;”
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