Winter is gone and spring is come [duplicate]

I understand "He is gone" or "Winter is gone" is the common usage. But is "She is come" or "Spring is come" as common?

Solution 1:

No, it isn't common in modern English: "is come" is archaic. "is gone" is also archaic when used as a present perfect verb form, but it is perfectly acceptable as the verb "is" (i.e. "be") with an adjective - "gone" made the leap from a participle to an adjective (meaning "not present any more", even if there was no "going" action) whereas "come" didn't really stick.

To demonstrate, consider:

He is suddenly gone...

The adverb "suddenly" makes it clear that "gone" is a verb, so in this case modern English would expect

He has suddenly gone...

Likewise modern English would expect

She has suddenly come...

Solution 2:

As user52889 has mentioned, "is come" is not current usage and sounds clumsy. We still see it in poetry and song lyrics, religious quotes ("Christ is come"), and old texts ("The time is come"), though. "Is gone", on the other hand, remains current usage.

The ngram below finds "is come" progressively declining but still being used (in books) in the 21st century.