February

February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years. Quotes Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 270. Come when the rainsHave glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,While the slant sun of February poursInto the bowers a flood of light. Approach!The incrusted surface shall upbear thy stepsAnd the broad arching portals of the groveWelcome thy entering. William Cullen Bryant, A Winter Piece, line 60. The February sunshine steeps your boughsAnd tints the buds and swells the leaves within. William Cullen Bryant, Among the Trees, line 53. February makes a bridge, andMarch breaks it. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). February, fill the dykeWith what thou dost like. Thomas Tusser, Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, February's Husbandry (1577 Edition "With what ye like"). Other The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons, 1949, p. 169. External links Category:Months