November

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November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning "nine") when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.

Quotes

• November's night is dark and drear,
  The dullest month of all the year.
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836), 'Frances Beaumont'

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 562.

• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.
  • William Cullen Bryant, The Third of November (1861).

• When shrieked
  The bleak November winds, and smote the woods,
  And the brown fields were herbless, and the shades
  That met above the merry rivulet
  Were spoiled, I sought, I loved them still; they seemed
  Like old companions in adversity.
  • William Cullen Bryant, A Winter Piece, line 22.

• The dusky waters shudder as they shine,
  The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way
  Of oozy brooks, which no deep banks define,
  And the gaunt woods, in ragged scant array,
  Wrap their old limbs with sombre ivy twine.
  • Hartley Coleridge, November.

• Dry leaves upon the wall,
  Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape,
  A single frosted cluster on the grape
  Still hangs—and that is all.
  • Susan Coolidge, November.

• Fie upon thee, November! thou dost ape
  The airs of thy young sisters, * * * thou hast stolen
  The witching smile of May to grace thy lip,
  And April's rare capricious loveliness
  Thou'rt trying to put on!
  • Julia C. R. Dorr, November.

• My sorrow when she's here with me,
  Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
  Are beautiful as days can be;
  She loves the bare, the withered tree;
  She walks the sodden pasture lane.
  • Robert Frost, My November Guest.

• No park—no ring—no afternoon gentility—
  No company—no nobility—
  No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease.
  No comfortable feel in any member—
  No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
  No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
  November!
  • Thomas Hood, November.

• The dead leaves their rich mosaics
  Of olive and gold and brown
  Had laid on the rain-wet pavements,
  Through all the embowered town.
  • Samuel Longfellow, November.

• Now Neptune's sullen month appears,
  The angry night cloud swells with tears,
  And savage storms infuriate driven,
  Fly howling in the face of heaven!
  Now, now, my friends, the gathering gloom
  With roseate rays of wine illume:
  And while our wreaths of parsley spread
  Their fadeless foliage round our head,
  We'll hymn th' almighty power of wine,
  And shed libations on his shrine!
  • Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon, Ode LXVIII.

• The wild November come at last
  Beneath a veil of rain;
  The night wind blows its folds aside,
  Her face is full of pain.
  
  The latest of her race, she takes
  The Autumn's vacant throne:
  She has but one short moon to live,
  And she must live alone.
  • Richard Henry Stoddard, November.

• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,—
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,—
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
  • Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, November. I.