vernal (adj.)
- aestival
- arctic
- autumnal
- blue-green
- boreal
- brumal
- budding
- callow
- canicular
- chartreuse
- chlorotic
- dewy
- equinoctial
- evergreen
- firsthand
- fledgling
- foliaged
- fresh
- glaucous
- grassy
- green
- greenish
- greensick
- growing
- hibernal
- hiemal
- immature
- inexperienced
- ingenuous
- innocent
- intact
- ivy
- juicy
- leafy
- leaved
- maiden
- maidenly
- minor
- naive
- new
- olive
- original
- pristine
- raw
- ripening
- sappy
- seasonal
- springlike
- summery
- tender
- unbeaten
- underage
- undeveloped
- unfledged
- unformed
- unripe
- unseasoned
- untouched
- untried
- untrodden
- unused
- verdant
- vert
- virgin
- virginal
- wintery
- wintry
- young
Thus with the year
Seasons return; but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men
Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
Presented with a universal blank
Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd,
And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.