August

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is a summer month in the Northern Hemisphere, and a winter month in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere. Quotes Why should this Negro insolently strideDown the red noonday on such noiseless feet?Piled in his barrow, tawnier than wheat,Lie heaps of smouldering daisies, sombre-eyed,Their copper petals shriveled up with pride,Hot with a superfluity of heat,Like a great brazier borne along the streetBy captive leopards, black and burning pied.Are there no water-lilies, smooth as cream,With long stems dripping crystal? Are there noneLike those white lilies, luminous and cool,Plucked from some hemlock-darkened northern streamBy fair-haired swimmers, diving where the sunScarce warms the surface of the deepest pool? Elinor Wylie, "August" in Nets to Catch the Wind (1921) Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46. The August cloud * * * suddenlyMelts into streams of rain. William Cullen Bryant, Sella. In the parching August wind, Cornfields bow the head,Sheltered in round valley depths, On low hills outspread. Christina G. Rossetti, A Year's Windfalls, Stanza 8. Dead is the air, and still! the leaves of the locust and walnutLazily hang from the boughs, inlaying their intricate outlinesRather on space than the sky-on a tideless expansion of slumber. Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, August. External links Category:Months