August

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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 stride
  Down 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 street
  By captive leopards, black and burning pied.
  Are there no water-lilies, smooth as cream,
  With long stems dripping crystal? Are there none
  Like those white lilies, luminous and cool,
  Plucked from some hemlock-darkened northern stream
  By fair-haired swimmers, diving where the sun
  Scarce 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 * * * suddenly
  Melts 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 walnut
  Lazily hang from the boughs, inlaying their intricate outlines
  Rather on space than the sky
  -on a tideless expansion of slumber.
  • Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, August.