NOVEMBERAncient Cornish name:Miz-dui, black month.Jewel for the month: Topaz. Fidelity.November 1st.(All Saints' Day.)On All Saints' Day hard is the grain.The leaves are dropping, the puddle is full,At setting off in the morningWoe to him that will trust a stranger.On All Saints' Day blustering is the weather,Unlike the beginning of the past fair season:Besides God there is none that knows the future.From the Welsh. 1792.Apples, peares, hawthorns, quicksetts, oakes. Sett them at All Hallow-tyde, and command them to grow; sett them at Candlemas-tide and entreat them to grow.Wilts.Who sets an apple tree may live to see it end,Who sets a pear tree may set it for a friend.Hereford.Their loveliness of life and leafAt last the waving trees have shed;The garden ground is sown with grief,The gay chrysanthemum is dead.But oh! remember this:There must be birth and blossoming;Nature will waken with a kissNext Spring!Clement Scott.Thorny balls, each three in one,The chestnuts throw in our path in showers!For the drop of the woodland fruit's begun,These early November hours.Browning.There never was a juster debtThan what the dry do pay for wet;Never a debt was paid more nighAs what the wet do pay for dry!A wet Sunday, a fine Monday, wet the rest of the week.Winchester.An early winter,A surly winter.St. Martin's Day.(November 11th.)If Martinmas ice can bear a duck,The winter will be all mire and muck.'Tween Martinmas and Yule,Water's wine in every pool.If it is cold, fair, and dry at Martinmas, the cold in winter will not last long.Old saying.Young and old must go warm at Martinmas.Italy.Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky.Dreary the leaf lieth low,All things must come to the earth by-and-by,Out of which all things grow.Owen Meredith.The year's on the wane,There is nothing adorning,The night has no eve,And the day has no morning;Cold winter gives warning.Hood.The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere;Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead,They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay,And from the wood-tops calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.W. Cullen Bryant.November 20th.(St. Edmund's Day.)Set garlike and peaseSt. Edmund to please.Tusser.If on Friday it rain,'Twill on Sunday again;If Friday be clear,Have for Sunday no fear.From twelve to twoSee what the day will do.November 23rd.(St. Clement's Day.)Catherine and Clement, be here, be here;Some of your apples, and some of your beer;Some for Peter, and some for Paul,And some for Him that made us all.Clement was a good old man,For his sake give us some;Not of the worst, but some of the best,And God will send your soul to rest.Worcestershire.November 30th.(St. Andrew's Day.)On St. Andrew's the night is twice as long as the day.Portugal.DECEMBERAncient Cornish name:Miz-kavardine, following black month.Jewel for the month: Turquoise. Prosperity.Though now no more the musing earDelights to listen to the breeze,That lingers o'er the green-wood shade,I love thee, Winter! well.Sweet are the harmonies of Spring,Sweet is the Summer's evening gale,And sweet the autumnal winds that shakeThe many-colour'd grove.And pleasant to the sober'd soulThe silence of the wintry scene,When Nature shrouds herself, entrancedIn deep tranquillity.Southey.December frost and January floodNever boded husbandman good.When there are three days cold, expect three days colder.Of Gardens.I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter, holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress trees, yew, pines, fir trees, rosemary, lavender, periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the blue; germander, flags, orange trees, lemon trees, and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set.Bacon.If frost do continue, take this for a law,The strawberries look to be covered with straw,Laid overly trim upon crotches and bows,And after uncovered, as weather allows.The gilliflower also, the skilful do know,Doth look to be covered in frost and in snow:The knot and the border, and rosemary gay,Do crave the like succour, for dying away.Tusser.December 5th.(St. Nicholas's Eve.)St. Nicholas, besides being the patron of children, was supposed to have provided marriage portions for portionless maidens.Saint Nicholas money used to give to maidens secretlie,Who, that he still may use his wonted liberalitie,The mothers all their children on the eve do cause to fast,And, when they every one at night in senseless sleepe are cast,Both apples, nuttes, and peares they bring, and other things beside,As caps, and shooes and petticotes, which secretlie they hide,And in the morning found, they say, that this Saint Nicholas brought:Thus tender mindes to worship Saints, and wicked things are taught.From "The Popish Kingdom," 1750.Barnaby Googe.St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra, patron saint of virgins, boys, sailors, and the worshipful company of parish clerks of the city of London.Hone.The drooping year is in the wane,No longer floats the thistle-down;The crimson heath is wan and sere;The sedge hangs withering by the mere,And the broad fern is rent and brown.The owl sits huddling by himself,The cold has pierced his body through;The patient cattle hang their head;The deer are 'neath their winter shed;The ruddy squirrel's in his bed,And each small thing within its burrow.Mary Howitt.December 21st.(St. Thomas's Day.)St. Thomas grey St. Thomas grey,The longest night and the shortest day.Look at the weathercock on St. Thomas's Day at twelve o'clock, and see which way the wind is, and there it will stick for the next three months.Warwickshire.There is never a Saturday in the yearBut what the sun it doth appear.If birds pipe afore Christmas they'll greet after.Scotland.Mystic mistletoe flaunted,Such as the Druids cut down with golden hatchets at Yuletide.Longfellow.William Stukeley, Arch Druid (1687-1765), says: "The Druids cut mistletoe off the trees with their upright hatchets of brass, called Celts, put upon the ends of their staffs, which they carried in their hands."Mistletoe is said to be the forbidden tree in the middle of the trees of Eden.If Christmas Day on Monday be,A great winter that year you'll see.What chyld on that day boorn be,Of gret worscheyp schall he be.MS. in Bodleian.If that Christmas Day should fallUpon Friday, know well allThat winter season shall be easy,Save great winds aloft shall fly.Easter in snow, Christmas in mud;Christmas in snow, Easter in mud.Germany.So now is come our joyful feast;Let every man be jolly;Each room with ivy leaves is drestAnd every post with holly.Though some churls at our mirth repine,Round your foreheads garlands twine;Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,And let us all be merry.George Wither.Carol of Queen Anne's Time, 1695.Thrice welcome Christmas,Which makes us good cheer,Mince pies and plum porridge,Good ale and strong beer,With pig, goose and capon,The best that may be,So well doth the weatherAnd our stomachs agree.Observe how the chimneysDo smoke all about—The cooks are providingFor dinner, no doubt!Kindle the Christmas brand, and thenTill sunrise let it burn;Which quenched, then lay it up agenTill Christmas next return.Part must be kept, wherewith to tendThe Christmas log next year;And when 'tis safely kept, the fiendCan do no mischief there.Warwickshire.December 26th.(St. Stephen's Day.)Blessed be St. Stephen,There's no fast upon his even.Old saying.Bishop Hall says: "On St. Stephen's Day blessings are implored upon pastures."December 28th.(Innocents' Day, or Childermas Day.)According to the monks, it was very unlucky to begin any work on Childermas Day, and what soever day that falls on, whether on the Monday, or Tuesday, or any other, nothing must be begun on that day through the year.Henry Bourne, 1725.Days lengthen a cock's stride each day after Christmas.Know the best season to laugh and to sing,Is winter, is summer, is autumn, is spring.Old Song.Hagman HeighOld Yorkshire custom for Hag-or Wood-man to go round to ask for money on New Year's Eve.New Year's Eve.Hark, the cock crows, and yon bright starTells us the day himself's not far;And see where, breaking from the night,He gilds the western hills with light.With him old Janus doth appear,Peeping into the future year,With such a look as seems to say,The prospect is not good that way.Charles Cotton.If New Year's Eve night wind blows southIt betokeneth warmth and growth;If west, much milk, and fish in the sea;If north, much cold and storms there will be;If east, the trees will bear much fruit;If north-east, flee it man and brute.The New Year, with its yet unacted history,Claims the homage of our last departing chime;Then we hush ourselves in awe before the mystery,Of the youngest and the freshest birth of Time.The good old year is with the past;Oh, be the new as kind!Pope.INDEXA BLOOM UPON,102A CALM JUNE,68A CAMOMILE BED,31A COLD JANUARY,10A DRIPPING JUNE,68A DRY MAY,62A FAIR DAY,10A FOG AND A SMALL MOON,81A FROSTY WINTER,26A GARDEN MUST BE LOOKED,97A HOAR FROST,21A JANUARY SPRING,15A KINDLY GOOD JANUARY,16ALL THE LAND,57ALL THE MONTHS,19ALL THINGS REJOICED,94ALL THROUGH THE SULTRY,84A LOVELY MORNING,56ALTHOUGH IT RAINS,43AMONG THE EAST COAST,61AN APRIL FROST,115AN EARLY WINTER,118ANY INDIVIDUAL,32APPLES, PEARES,116APPLE-TREE,12APRIL AND MAY,42APRIL COLD,43APRIL PRIDE OF,44APRIL! THE HAWTHORN,49A RAINBOW,81A SATURDAY'S RAINBOW,79A SHOWER OF RAIN,89AS MANY DAYS,35A SNOW YEAR,10A SUNSHINY SHOWER,79AS YET BUT SINGLE,44AT LATTER LAMMAS,94AT NEW YEAR'S TIDE,9A TUFT OF EVENING PRIMROSES,86A WET GOOD FRIDAY,38A WET JUNE,84A WET SUNDAY,118A WINDY MAY,59A YEAR OF SNOW,11BARNABY BRIGHT,73BEASTS DO TAKE COMFORT,79BEEF AND BACON,20BELOW THE HILL,70BESIDE THE GARDEN PATH,26BISHOP HALL,128BLANK EARTH-BALDNESS,27BLESSED BE ST. STEPHEN,128BLOSSOM OF THE ALMOND,48BLUE FLAGS,86BY FRAGRANT GALES,71CANDLEMAS SHINED,18CATHERINE AND CLEMENT,120CHILDERMAS DAY,128CLOUDS WITHOUT RAIN,81COME AWAY,68COME BUY,90COME GATHER,26COME LISTEN,54COME OUT OF DOORS,56COO-PI-COO,64COWS AND SHEEP,77CUCKOO,42CUT THISTLES IN MAY,60DARK WINTER IS WANING,57DAYS LENGTHEN,128DECAY, DECAY,114DECEMBER FROST,122DESCEND SWEET APRIL,39DID HE DO IT?,22DRY AUGUST,97EASTER IN SNOW,126FAIRE WAS THE DAWN,88FAIR RISING,17FEBRUARY FILL THE DITCH,19FIR CONES,77FIRST CUCKOO DAY,40FIRST SWALLOW DAY,42FLED ARE THE FROSTS,46FLOWERY MAY,55FOR MARCH,25FOR MORNING RAIN,96FOR THE LATTER PART,15FRESH HERRING,107FRIDAY'S A DAY,97FROM TWELVE TO TWO,120FROM WHATEVER QUARTER,35FULL MOON IN OCTOBER,114GEESE NOW,108GERVASE OF TILBURY,32GO AND LOOK AT OATS,59GOLDEN BILL,45GOOD GARDENER MINE,15GOOD HUSWIVES,98HAGMAN HEIGH,129HAIL BEAUTEOUS STRANGER,41HAIL ONCE AGAIN,33HAPPY BRITANNIA!,99HARK! THE COCK CROWS,129HARK! THE HOURS,44HAWTHORN BLOOM,62HE COMES, HE COMES!,42HERE'S A HEALTH,101HERE'S A PENNY-ROYAL,62HERE THE ROSEBUDS,70HE THAT WOULD LIVE,62HE THAT FREELY LOPS,25HOAR FROST AND GIPSIES,114HUSH! HUSH!,57I DO HOLD IT,122I DO NOT WANT CHANGE,92I EARLY ROSE,19IF APPLES BLOOM,35IF BEES STAY AT HOME,78IF BIRDS PIPE,125IF CANDLEMAS DAY,18IF CHRISTMAS DAY,126IF FEBRUARY,22IF FROSTS DO CONTINUE,122IF IT DOES NOT FREEZE,27IF IT IS COLD,118IF IT RAINETH,67IF IT THUNDERS,37IF JANIVEER CALENDS,9IF MARTINMAS,118IF MICHAELMAS DAY,107IF MIST'S IN THE NEW MOON,81IF NEW YEAR'S EVE,129IF NIGHTS THREE,78IF ON FRIDAY,120IF ST. BARTHOLOMEW,98IF ST. PAUL'S DAY,14IF SATURDAY'S MOON,82IF THAT CHRISTMAS,126IF THE DOWN,75IF THE FIRST OF JULY,85IF THE GRASS GROW,10IF THE ROBIN,16IF THE SAGE TREE,96IF THE WOODCOCK,100IF YOU EAT,108IF YOU SCARE,65IF YOU SWEEP,56I MET QUEEN SPRING,44IN APRIL,47IN AUGUST,95IN FORMER TIMES,41IN JULY,86IN MARCH AND IN APRIL,28IN MARCH IS GOOD GRAFFING,27IN MAY AND JUNE,55IN MY NOSTRILS,85IN OCTOBER AND BEGINNING,111IN OXFORDSHIRE,22IN SEPTEMBER,102I SOMETIMES THINK,85IN SPRING,36IN THE MORNING,32IN THE SARUM,107IN THE SOUTH,11IN WILD MOOR,39IT IS AFFIRMED,13IT IS ALWAYS,96IT IS UNLUCKY,53JANUARY THE FOURTEENTH,12JULY, TO WHOM,92KINDLE THE CHRISTMAS,127KNICK, KNOCK,20KNOW THE BEST SEASON,128LADY OF THE SPRINGE,48LAZY CATTLE,63LEAVE CROPPING FROM MAY,53LOAF-MASS DAY,94LOOK AT THE WEATHERCOCK,125LO, THE YOUNG MONTH,52LOVE ON A DAY,40MAARYES TAAILES,80MANY HAWS,103MARCH DOES FROM APRIL GAIN,31MARCH IN JANIVEER,11MARCH SEARCH,31MARCH WIND,31MAY'S WARM,61MAY, THOU MONTH,65MISTLETOE IS SAID,125MOAN, OH YE AUTUMN,112MOONWORT,64MOUSE EAR,87MY ONE MAN,75MYSTIC MISTLETOE, 125NEVER A FISHERMAN,96NIPCAKE, NIPCAKE,95NO SUMMER FLOWER,30NOTHING STIRS,106NO TEMPEST,90NO WEATHER IS ILL,84NOT REND-OFF,89NOW SET FOR THY POT,22NOW THE GLORIES,86NOW YELLOW HARVESTS,97OCTOBER BRINGS THE COLD,114OCTOBER'S GOLD,111OH! COME QUICKLY,66OH! FAINT DELICIOUS,38OH! GOLDEN, GOLDEN,92OH! THE ROSY MONTH,69OH! WHAT A DAWN,29OH! WHAT A MAY DAY,58OH! WINTER,16OH! LOVE-STAR,28OLD MAY DAY,58OLD YORKSHIRE CUSTOM,12ON ALL SAINT'S DAY,116ONE FOR THE MOUSE,21ONE MONTH IS PAST,17ONION SKIN,103ON ONE SIDE IS A FIELD,98ON ST. ANDREW'S,120ON SHROVE TUESDAY,20ON THE FIRST OF MARCH,24ON THURSDAY AT THREE,96ON TWELVE-EVE,11OUR VERNAL SIGNS,34OVER THE MEADOW,67PALE MOON,32PANSIES! PANSIES,69PARSLEY SOWN,38PIMPERNEL,79PLANT YOUR 'TATURS,43PLUCK BROOM,15PONDWEED SINKS,77PUT IN THE SICKLE,97RAINBOW TO WINDWARD,80REMEMBER IN ST. VINCENT'S,13ST. BARNABAS,73ST. FRANCIS,109ST. MATTHEW,104ST. NICHOLAS, ARCHBISHOP,124ST. NICHOLAS,123ST. ROCHE,98ST. SWITHUN IS CHRISTENING,89ST. SWITHUN'S DAY,89ST. THOMAS,124SATURDAY CHANGE,81SATURDAY'S MOON,81SEA-GULL,78SEPTEMBER BLOW SOFT,102SEPTEMBER DRIES,102SEPTEMBER THE FIFTEENTH,103SET GARLIKE,103SET STRAWBERRIES,119SHIVERING, QUIVERING,112SLEEP WITH YOUR HEAD,36SO NOW IS COME,126SOON WILL HIGH,75SOW PEASON,21SPRING IS HERE,34SPRING IS STRONG, 39SPRING'S AN EXPANSIVE,27SPRING WAS O'ER HAPPY,102SUMMER IN THE PENNILESS,88SUMMER IS GONE,105SUMMER IS NEAR,55SUMMER IS PURPLE,97SUNSET IN A CLEAR,31SWEET APRIL,51SWEET IS THE ROSE,87SWELLING DOWNS,87THAT MELLOW SEASON,104THE AUGUST GOLD,94THE BADGER PEEPS,18THE BALLAD SINGERS,50THE BARBERRY,103THE BLACKEST MONTH,10THE BROOM,68THE DIM DROOP,19THE DROOPING YEAR,124THE EMPTY PASTURES,10THE FAIR MAID,52THE FEATHERS OF THE WILLOW,105THE FIRST MONDAY,37THE FIRST SUNDAY,43THE FIRST THUNDER,37THE FLOWER BEDS,69THE FLUSH OF THE LANDSCAPE,105THE GOOD OLD YEAR,130THE GROUND IS CLEAR,100THE HOLLOW WINDS,75THE HOUSEKEEPER,21THE IGNORANT,73THE IRISH,52THEIR LOVELINESS,117THE LARK,50THE LAST YEAR'S LEAF,53THE LEEKE IS WHITE,24THE LINNET,61THE MELANCHOLY DAYS,119THE MICHAELMAS MOON,108THE MOON AND THE WEATHER,82THE MOON IN THE WANE,108THE NEARER TO TWELVE,82THE NEW YEAR,130THE NIGHTINGALE,89THE OAK BEFORE THE ASH,59THE PASTORAL COWSLIPS,83THE PIGEON NEVER,64THE PRETTY LARK,22THE RIPPLING SMILE,43THE SIXTH MONTH,70THE SOFTEST TURF,29THE STARLINGS ARE COME,62THE SUN HAS LONG,83THE SWEET WEST WIND,71THE WIND OF THE SOUTH,9THE YEAR'S ON THE WANE,119THEN DOTH THE JOYFUL,74THERE ARE ALWAYS,114THERE ARE TWELVE,54THERE IS AN OLD PROVERB,19THERE IS AN OLD,41THERE IS A RAPTUROUS,49THERE IS A SAYING,36THERE IS A TRADITION,34THERE IS NEVER A SATURDAY,125THERE IS STRANGE MUSIC,110THERE NEVER WAS,117THEY WHO BATHE IN MAY,54THORNY BALLS,117THOUGH NOW NO MORE,121THOU WILT REMEMBER,35THREE ICEMEN,58THRICE WELCOME CHRISTMAS,127THROUGH ALL THE SAD,10THUNDER IN SPRING,31TILL ST. JAMES'S,92TO SMELL WILD THYME,97TOSSING HIS MANE,25TO TALK OF THE WEATHER,80TRAMPING AFTER GROUSE,101'TWAS MIDSUMMER,74'TWAS ONE OF THE CHARMED,72'TWEEN MARTINMAS,118TWELFTH DAY,12TWIGHEE, TWIGHEE,51UNDER THE FURZE,30UNDER WATER,11UPON ST. DAVID'S DAY,24USE MAKETH MAISTRY,41WARWICKSHIRE COUNTRYMEN,10WEARY THE CLOUD,118WE HAVE PLOUGHED,101WELCOME, O MARCH,25WHAT AFFECTIONS,38WHAT CHILD,126WHAT WONDROUS LIFE,106WHEAT SWAYS HEAVY,95WHEN A COCK DRINKS,78WHEN A DAFFODIL,32WHEN AFTER A ROUGH,23WHEN A MOORLAND,23WHEN AUTUMN SAD,110WHEN CLAMOUR,65WHEN COUNTRY ROADS,29WHEN IN SPRING,47WHEN MACK'REL,73WHEN ON THE PURIFICATION,18WHEN OUR LORD,34WHEN OXEN,79WHEN PASSING O'ER,60WHEN RAIN CAUSES BUBBLES,79WHEN SEPTEMBER,103WHEN SHEEP BEGIN,78WHEN SHEEP DO HUDDLE,80WHEN THE CLOUDS,77WHEN THE CORN,59WHEN THE DIMPLED,63WHEN THE FALLING,104WHEN THE MOON,82WHEN THE NEW MOON,81WHEN THE SLOE TREE,44WHEN THE TENANTS,107WHEN THE WHITE PINKS,67WHEN THE WIND BLOWS,33WHEN THE WIND'S IN THE EAST,18WHEN THE WIND'S IN THE SOUTH,84WHEN THE WIND VEERS,80WHEN THERE ARE MANY,43WHEN THERE ARE THREE,122WHEN WINTRY WEATHER,30WHERE THE COPSE,88WHERE THE WIND IS,33WHERE WOODBINES,72WHILE WORMWOOD,90WHO EATS OYSTERS,95WHOEVER IS ILL,53WHO KNOWS WHAT,113WHO SETS AN APPLE,117WHO SHEARS HIS SHEEP,59WHO SOWETH IN RAIN,110WHY VALENTINE,19WILD WITH THE WINDS,103WILL YOU BUY,91WINTER IS SO,47WINTER'S THUNDER,13WINTER'S WHITE SHROUD,13WINTER TIME,11YACK-BOB DAY,65YELLOW, MELLOW,112YE WHO HAVE FELT,46YOUNG AND OLD,118
NOVEMBERAncient Cornish name:Miz-dui, black month.Jewel for the month: Topaz. Fidelity.November 1st.(All Saints' Day.)On All Saints' Day hard is the grain.The leaves are dropping, the puddle is full,At setting off in the morningWoe to him that will trust a stranger.On All Saints' Day blustering is the weather,Unlike the beginning of the past fair season:Besides God there is none that knows the future.From the Welsh. 1792.Apples, peares, hawthorns, quicksetts, oakes. Sett them at All Hallow-tyde, and command them to grow; sett them at Candlemas-tide and entreat them to grow.Wilts.Who sets an apple tree may live to see it end,Who sets a pear tree may set it for a friend.Hereford.Their loveliness of life and leafAt last the waving trees have shed;The garden ground is sown with grief,The gay chrysanthemum is dead.But oh! remember this:There must be birth and blossoming;Nature will waken with a kissNext Spring!Clement Scott.Thorny balls, each three in one,The chestnuts throw in our path in showers!For the drop of the woodland fruit's begun,These early November hours.Browning.There never was a juster debtThan what the dry do pay for wet;Never a debt was paid more nighAs what the wet do pay for dry!A wet Sunday, a fine Monday, wet the rest of the week.Winchester.An early winter,A surly winter.St. Martin's Day.(November 11th.)If Martinmas ice can bear a duck,The winter will be all mire and muck.'Tween Martinmas and Yule,Water's wine in every pool.If it is cold, fair, and dry at Martinmas, the cold in winter will not last long.Old saying.Young and old must go warm at Martinmas.Italy.Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky.Dreary the leaf lieth low,All things must come to the earth by-and-by,Out of which all things grow.Owen Meredith.The year's on the wane,There is nothing adorning,The night has no eve,And the day has no morning;Cold winter gives warning.Hood.The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere;Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead,They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay,And from the wood-tops calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.W. Cullen Bryant.November 20th.(St. Edmund's Day.)Set garlike and peaseSt. Edmund to please.Tusser.If on Friday it rain,'Twill on Sunday again;If Friday be clear,Have for Sunday no fear.From twelve to twoSee what the day will do.November 23rd.(St. Clement's Day.)Catherine and Clement, be here, be here;Some of your apples, and some of your beer;Some for Peter, and some for Paul,And some for Him that made us all.Clement was a good old man,For his sake give us some;Not of the worst, but some of the best,And God will send your soul to rest.Worcestershire.November 30th.(St. Andrew's Day.)On St. Andrew's the night is twice as long as the day.Portugal.
Ancient Cornish name:Miz-dui, black month.
Jewel for the month: Topaz. Fidelity.
November 1st.(All Saints' Day.)
On All Saints' Day hard is the grain.The leaves are dropping, the puddle is full,At setting off in the morningWoe to him that will trust a stranger.On All Saints' Day blustering is the weather,Unlike the beginning of the past fair season:Besides God there is none that knows the future.
From the Welsh. 1792.
Apples, peares, hawthorns, quicksetts, oakes. Sett them at All Hallow-tyde, and command them to grow; sett them at Candlemas-tide and entreat them to grow.
Wilts.
Who sets an apple tree may live to see it end,Who sets a pear tree may set it for a friend.
Hereford.
Their loveliness of life and leafAt last the waving trees have shed;The garden ground is sown with grief,The gay chrysanthemum is dead.But oh! remember this:There must be birth and blossoming;Nature will waken with a kiss
Next Spring!
Clement Scott.
Thorny balls, each three in one,
The chestnuts throw in our path in showers!
For the drop of the woodland fruit's begun,
These early November hours.
Browning.
There never was a juster debtThan what the dry do pay for wet;Never a debt was paid more nighAs what the wet do pay for dry!
A wet Sunday, a fine Monday, wet the rest of the week.
Winchester.
An early winter,A surly winter.
St. Martin's Day.(November 11th.)
If Martinmas ice can bear a duck,The winter will be all mire and muck.
'Tween Martinmas and Yule,Water's wine in every pool.
If it is cold, fair, and dry at Martinmas, the cold in winter will not last long.
Old saying.
Young and old must go warm at Martinmas.
Italy.
Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky.
Dreary the leaf lieth low,
All things must come to the earth by-and-by,
Out of which all things grow.
Owen Meredith.
The year's on the wane,There is nothing adorning,The night has no eve,And the day has no morning;Cold winter gives warning.
Hood.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere;
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead,
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay,
And from the wood-tops calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.
W. Cullen Bryant.
November 20th.(St. Edmund's Day.)
Set garlike and peaseSt. Edmund to please.
Tusser.
If on Friday it rain,'Twill on Sunday again;If Friday be clear,Have for Sunday no fear.
From twelve to twoSee what the day will do.
November 23rd.(St. Clement's Day.)
Catherine and Clement, be here, be here;Some of your apples, and some of your beer;Some for Peter, and some for Paul,And some for Him that made us all.Clement was a good old man,For his sake give us some;Not of the worst, but some of the best,And God will send your soul to rest.
Worcestershire.
November 30th.(St. Andrew's Day.)
On St. Andrew's the night is twice as long as the day.
Portugal.
DECEMBERAncient Cornish name:Miz-kavardine, following black month.Jewel for the month: Turquoise. Prosperity.Though now no more the musing earDelights to listen to the breeze,That lingers o'er the green-wood shade,I love thee, Winter! well.Sweet are the harmonies of Spring,Sweet is the Summer's evening gale,And sweet the autumnal winds that shakeThe many-colour'd grove.And pleasant to the sober'd soulThe silence of the wintry scene,When Nature shrouds herself, entrancedIn deep tranquillity.Southey.December frost and January floodNever boded husbandman good.When there are three days cold, expect three days colder.Of Gardens.I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter, holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress trees, yew, pines, fir trees, rosemary, lavender, periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the blue; germander, flags, orange trees, lemon trees, and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set.Bacon.If frost do continue, take this for a law,The strawberries look to be covered with straw,Laid overly trim upon crotches and bows,And after uncovered, as weather allows.The gilliflower also, the skilful do know,Doth look to be covered in frost and in snow:The knot and the border, and rosemary gay,Do crave the like succour, for dying away.Tusser.December 5th.(St. Nicholas's Eve.)St. Nicholas, besides being the patron of children, was supposed to have provided marriage portions for portionless maidens.Saint Nicholas money used to give to maidens secretlie,Who, that he still may use his wonted liberalitie,The mothers all their children on the eve do cause to fast,And, when they every one at night in senseless sleepe are cast,Both apples, nuttes, and peares they bring, and other things beside,As caps, and shooes and petticotes, which secretlie they hide,And in the morning found, they say, that this Saint Nicholas brought:Thus tender mindes to worship Saints, and wicked things are taught.From "The Popish Kingdom," 1750.Barnaby Googe.St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra, patron saint of virgins, boys, sailors, and the worshipful company of parish clerks of the city of London.Hone.The drooping year is in the wane,No longer floats the thistle-down;The crimson heath is wan and sere;The sedge hangs withering by the mere,And the broad fern is rent and brown.The owl sits huddling by himself,The cold has pierced his body through;The patient cattle hang their head;The deer are 'neath their winter shed;The ruddy squirrel's in his bed,And each small thing within its burrow.Mary Howitt.December 21st.(St. Thomas's Day.)St. Thomas grey St. Thomas grey,The longest night and the shortest day.Look at the weathercock on St. Thomas's Day at twelve o'clock, and see which way the wind is, and there it will stick for the next three months.Warwickshire.There is never a Saturday in the yearBut what the sun it doth appear.If birds pipe afore Christmas they'll greet after.Scotland.Mystic mistletoe flaunted,Such as the Druids cut down with golden hatchets at Yuletide.Longfellow.William Stukeley, Arch Druid (1687-1765), says: "The Druids cut mistletoe off the trees with their upright hatchets of brass, called Celts, put upon the ends of their staffs, which they carried in their hands."Mistletoe is said to be the forbidden tree in the middle of the trees of Eden.If Christmas Day on Monday be,A great winter that year you'll see.What chyld on that day boorn be,Of gret worscheyp schall he be.MS. in Bodleian.If that Christmas Day should fallUpon Friday, know well allThat winter season shall be easy,Save great winds aloft shall fly.Easter in snow, Christmas in mud;Christmas in snow, Easter in mud.Germany.So now is come our joyful feast;Let every man be jolly;Each room with ivy leaves is drestAnd every post with holly.Though some churls at our mirth repine,Round your foreheads garlands twine;Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,And let us all be merry.George Wither.Carol of Queen Anne's Time, 1695.Thrice welcome Christmas,Which makes us good cheer,Mince pies and plum porridge,Good ale and strong beer,With pig, goose and capon,The best that may be,So well doth the weatherAnd our stomachs agree.Observe how the chimneysDo smoke all about—The cooks are providingFor dinner, no doubt!Kindle the Christmas brand, and thenTill sunrise let it burn;Which quenched, then lay it up agenTill Christmas next return.Part must be kept, wherewith to tendThe Christmas log next year;And when 'tis safely kept, the fiendCan do no mischief there.Warwickshire.December 26th.(St. Stephen's Day.)Blessed be St. Stephen,There's no fast upon his even.Old saying.Bishop Hall says: "On St. Stephen's Day blessings are implored upon pastures."December 28th.(Innocents' Day, or Childermas Day.)According to the monks, it was very unlucky to begin any work on Childermas Day, and what soever day that falls on, whether on the Monday, or Tuesday, or any other, nothing must be begun on that day through the year.Henry Bourne, 1725.Days lengthen a cock's stride each day after Christmas.Know the best season to laugh and to sing,Is winter, is summer, is autumn, is spring.Old Song.Hagman HeighOld Yorkshire custom for Hag-or Wood-man to go round to ask for money on New Year's Eve.New Year's Eve.Hark, the cock crows, and yon bright starTells us the day himself's not far;And see where, breaking from the night,He gilds the western hills with light.With him old Janus doth appear,Peeping into the future year,With such a look as seems to say,The prospect is not good that way.Charles Cotton.If New Year's Eve night wind blows southIt betokeneth warmth and growth;If west, much milk, and fish in the sea;If north, much cold and storms there will be;If east, the trees will bear much fruit;If north-east, flee it man and brute.The New Year, with its yet unacted history,Claims the homage of our last departing chime;Then we hush ourselves in awe before the mystery,Of the youngest and the freshest birth of Time.The good old year is with the past;Oh, be the new as kind!Pope.
Ancient Cornish name:Miz-kavardine, following black month.
Jewel for the month: Turquoise. Prosperity.
Though now no more the musing earDelights to listen to the breeze,That lingers o'er the green-wood shade,
I love thee, Winter! well.
Sweet are the harmonies of Spring,Sweet is the Summer's evening gale,And sweet the autumnal winds that shake
The many-colour'd grove.
And pleasant to the sober'd soulThe silence of the wintry scene,When Nature shrouds herself, entranced
In deep tranquillity.
Southey.
December frost and January floodNever boded husbandman good.
When there are three days cold, expect three days colder.
Of Gardens.
I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter, holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress trees, yew, pines, fir trees, rosemary, lavender, periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the blue; germander, flags, orange trees, lemon trees, and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set.
Bacon.
If frost do continue, take this for a law,
The strawberries look to be covered with straw,
Laid overly trim upon crotches and bows,
And after uncovered, as weather allows.
The gilliflower also, the skilful do know,
Doth look to be covered in frost and in snow:
The knot and the border, and rosemary gay,
Do crave the like succour, for dying away.
Tusser.
December 5th.(St. Nicholas's Eve.)
St. Nicholas, besides being the patron of children, was supposed to have provided marriage portions for portionless maidens.
Saint Nicholas money used to give to maidens secretlie,
Who, that he still may use his wonted liberalitie,
The mothers all their children on the eve do cause to fast,
And, when they every one at night in senseless sleepe are cast,
Both apples, nuttes, and peares they bring, and other things beside,
As caps, and shooes and petticotes, which secretlie they hide,
And in the morning found, they say, that this Saint Nicholas brought:
Thus tender mindes to worship Saints, and wicked things are taught.
From "The Popish Kingdom," 1750.
Barnaby Googe.
St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra, patron saint of virgins, boys, sailors, and the worshipful company of parish clerks of the city of London.
Hone.
The drooping year is in the wane,No longer floats the thistle-down;The crimson heath is wan and sere;The sedge hangs withering by the mere,And the broad fern is rent and brown.The owl sits huddling by himself,The cold has pierced his body through;The patient cattle hang their head;The deer are 'neath their winter shed;The ruddy squirrel's in his bed,And each small thing within its burrow.
Mary Howitt.
December 21st.(St. Thomas's Day.)
St. Thomas grey St. Thomas grey,The longest night and the shortest day.
Look at the weathercock on St. Thomas's Day at twelve o'clock, and see which way the wind is, and there it will stick for the next three months.
Warwickshire.
There is never a Saturday in the yearBut what the sun it doth appear.
If birds pipe afore Christmas they'll greet after.
Scotland.
Mystic mistletoe flaunted,
Such as the Druids cut down with golden hatchets at Yuletide.
Longfellow.
William Stukeley, Arch Druid (1687-1765), says: "The Druids cut mistletoe off the trees with their upright hatchets of brass, called Celts, put upon the ends of their staffs, which they carried in their hands."
Mistletoe is said to be the forbidden tree in the middle of the trees of Eden.
If Christmas Day on Monday be,A great winter that year you'll see.
What chyld on that day boorn be,Of gret worscheyp schall he be.
MS. in Bodleian.
If that Christmas Day should fallUpon Friday, know well allThat winter season shall be easy,Save great winds aloft shall fly.
Easter in snow, Christmas in mud;Christmas in snow, Easter in mud.
Germany.
So now is come our joyful feast;Let every man be jolly;Each room with ivy leaves is drestAnd every post with holly.Though some churls at our mirth repine,Round your foreheads garlands twine;Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,And let us all be merry.
George Wither.
Carol of Queen Anne's Time, 1695.
Thrice welcome Christmas,Which makes us good cheer,Mince pies and plum porridge,Good ale and strong beer,With pig, goose and capon,The best that may be,So well doth the weatherAnd our stomachs agree.Observe how the chimneysDo smoke all about—The cooks are providingFor dinner, no doubt!
Kindle the Christmas brand, and then
Till sunrise let it burn;
Which quenched, then lay it up agen
Till Christmas next return.
Part must be kept, wherewith to tend
The Christmas log next year;
And when 'tis safely kept, the fiend
Can do no mischief there.
Warwickshire.
December 26th.(St. Stephen's Day.)
Blessed be St. Stephen,There's no fast upon his even.
Old saying.
Bishop Hall says: "On St. Stephen's Day blessings are implored upon pastures."
December 28th.(Innocents' Day, or Childermas Day.)
According to the monks, it was very unlucky to begin any work on Childermas Day, and what soever day that falls on, whether on the Monday, or Tuesday, or any other, nothing must be begun on that day through the year.
Henry Bourne, 1725.
Days lengthen a cock's stride each day after Christmas.
Know the best season to laugh and to sing,Is winter, is summer, is autumn, is spring.
Old Song.
Hagman Heigh
Old Yorkshire custom for Hag-or Wood-man to go round to ask for money on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve.
Hark, the cock crows, and yon bright starTells us the day himself's not far;And see where, breaking from the night,He gilds the western hills with light.With him old Janus doth appear,Peeping into the future year,With such a look as seems to say,The prospect is not good that way.
Charles Cotton.
If New Year's Eve night wind blows southIt betokeneth warmth and growth;If west, much milk, and fish in the sea;If north, much cold and storms there will be;If east, the trees will bear much fruit;If north-east, flee it man and brute.
The New Year, with its yet unacted history,
Claims the homage of our last departing chime;
Then we hush ourselves in awe before the mystery,
Of the youngest and the freshest birth of Time.
The good old year is with the past;Oh, be the new as kind!
Pope.
INDEXA BLOOM UPON,102A CALM JUNE,68A CAMOMILE BED,31A COLD JANUARY,10A DRIPPING JUNE,68A DRY MAY,62A FAIR DAY,10A FOG AND A SMALL MOON,81A FROSTY WINTER,26A GARDEN MUST BE LOOKED,97A HOAR FROST,21A JANUARY SPRING,15A KINDLY GOOD JANUARY,16ALL THE LAND,57ALL THE MONTHS,19ALL THINGS REJOICED,94ALL THROUGH THE SULTRY,84A LOVELY MORNING,56ALTHOUGH IT RAINS,43AMONG THE EAST COAST,61AN APRIL FROST,115AN EARLY WINTER,118ANY INDIVIDUAL,32APPLES, PEARES,116APPLE-TREE,12APRIL AND MAY,42APRIL COLD,43APRIL PRIDE OF,44APRIL! THE HAWTHORN,49A RAINBOW,81A SATURDAY'S RAINBOW,79A SHOWER OF RAIN,89AS MANY DAYS,35A SNOW YEAR,10A SUNSHINY SHOWER,79AS YET BUT SINGLE,44AT LATTER LAMMAS,94AT NEW YEAR'S TIDE,9A TUFT OF EVENING PRIMROSES,86A WET GOOD FRIDAY,38A WET JUNE,84A WET SUNDAY,118A WINDY MAY,59A YEAR OF SNOW,11BARNABY BRIGHT,73BEASTS DO TAKE COMFORT,79BEEF AND BACON,20BELOW THE HILL,70BESIDE THE GARDEN PATH,26BISHOP HALL,128BLANK EARTH-BALDNESS,27BLESSED BE ST. STEPHEN,128BLOSSOM OF THE ALMOND,48BLUE FLAGS,86BY FRAGRANT GALES,71CANDLEMAS SHINED,18CATHERINE AND CLEMENT,120CHILDERMAS DAY,128CLOUDS WITHOUT RAIN,81COME AWAY,68COME BUY,90COME GATHER,26COME LISTEN,54COME OUT OF DOORS,56COO-PI-COO,64COWS AND SHEEP,77CUCKOO,42CUT THISTLES IN MAY,60DARK WINTER IS WANING,57DAYS LENGTHEN,128DECAY, DECAY,114DECEMBER FROST,122DESCEND SWEET APRIL,39DID HE DO IT?,22DRY AUGUST,97EASTER IN SNOW,126FAIRE WAS THE DAWN,88FAIR RISING,17FEBRUARY FILL THE DITCH,19FIR CONES,77FIRST CUCKOO DAY,40FIRST SWALLOW DAY,42FLED ARE THE FROSTS,46FLOWERY MAY,55FOR MARCH,25FOR MORNING RAIN,96FOR THE LATTER PART,15FRESH HERRING,107FRIDAY'S A DAY,97FROM TWELVE TO TWO,120FROM WHATEVER QUARTER,35FULL MOON IN OCTOBER,114GEESE NOW,108GERVASE OF TILBURY,32GO AND LOOK AT OATS,59GOLDEN BILL,45GOOD GARDENER MINE,15GOOD HUSWIVES,98HAGMAN HEIGH,129HAIL BEAUTEOUS STRANGER,41HAIL ONCE AGAIN,33HAPPY BRITANNIA!,99HARK! THE COCK CROWS,129HARK! THE HOURS,44HAWTHORN BLOOM,62HE COMES, HE COMES!,42HERE'S A HEALTH,101HERE'S A PENNY-ROYAL,62HERE THE ROSEBUDS,70HE THAT WOULD LIVE,62HE THAT FREELY LOPS,25HOAR FROST AND GIPSIES,114HUSH! HUSH!,57I DO HOLD IT,122I DO NOT WANT CHANGE,92I EARLY ROSE,19IF APPLES BLOOM,35IF BEES STAY AT HOME,78IF BIRDS PIPE,125IF CANDLEMAS DAY,18IF CHRISTMAS DAY,126IF FEBRUARY,22IF FROSTS DO CONTINUE,122IF IT DOES NOT FREEZE,27IF IT IS COLD,118IF IT RAINETH,67IF IT THUNDERS,37IF JANIVEER CALENDS,9IF MARTINMAS,118IF MICHAELMAS DAY,107IF MIST'S IN THE NEW MOON,81IF NEW YEAR'S EVE,129IF NIGHTS THREE,78IF ON FRIDAY,120IF ST. BARTHOLOMEW,98IF ST. PAUL'S DAY,14IF SATURDAY'S MOON,82IF THAT CHRISTMAS,126IF THE DOWN,75IF THE FIRST OF JULY,85IF THE GRASS GROW,10IF THE ROBIN,16IF THE SAGE TREE,96IF THE WOODCOCK,100IF YOU EAT,108IF YOU SCARE,65IF YOU SWEEP,56I MET QUEEN SPRING,44IN APRIL,47IN AUGUST,95IN FORMER TIMES,41IN JULY,86IN MARCH AND IN APRIL,28IN MARCH IS GOOD GRAFFING,27IN MAY AND JUNE,55IN MY NOSTRILS,85IN OCTOBER AND BEGINNING,111IN OXFORDSHIRE,22IN SEPTEMBER,102I SOMETIMES THINK,85IN SPRING,36IN THE MORNING,32IN THE SARUM,107IN THE SOUTH,11IN WILD MOOR,39IT IS AFFIRMED,13IT IS ALWAYS,96IT IS UNLUCKY,53JANUARY THE FOURTEENTH,12JULY, TO WHOM,92KINDLE THE CHRISTMAS,127KNICK, KNOCK,20KNOW THE BEST SEASON,128LADY OF THE SPRINGE,48LAZY CATTLE,63LEAVE CROPPING FROM MAY,53LOAF-MASS DAY,94LOOK AT THE WEATHERCOCK,125LO, THE YOUNG MONTH,52LOVE ON A DAY,40MAARYES TAAILES,80MANY HAWS,103MARCH DOES FROM APRIL GAIN,31MARCH IN JANIVEER,11MARCH SEARCH,31MARCH WIND,31MAY'S WARM,61MAY, THOU MONTH,65MISTLETOE IS SAID,125MOAN, OH YE AUTUMN,112MOONWORT,64MOUSE EAR,87MY ONE MAN,75MYSTIC MISTLETOE, 125NEVER A FISHERMAN,96NIPCAKE, NIPCAKE,95NO SUMMER FLOWER,30NOTHING STIRS,106NO TEMPEST,90NO WEATHER IS ILL,84NOT REND-OFF,89NOW SET FOR THY POT,22NOW THE GLORIES,86NOW YELLOW HARVESTS,97OCTOBER BRINGS THE COLD,114OCTOBER'S GOLD,111OH! COME QUICKLY,66OH! FAINT DELICIOUS,38OH! GOLDEN, GOLDEN,92OH! THE ROSY MONTH,69OH! WHAT A DAWN,29OH! WHAT A MAY DAY,58OH! WINTER,16OH! LOVE-STAR,28OLD MAY DAY,58OLD YORKSHIRE CUSTOM,12ON ALL SAINT'S DAY,116ONE FOR THE MOUSE,21ONE MONTH IS PAST,17ONION SKIN,103ON ONE SIDE IS A FIELD,98ON ST. ANDREW'S,120ON SHROVE TUESDAY,20ON THE FIRST OF MARCH,24ON THURSDAY AT THREE,96ON TWELVE-EVE,11OUR VERNAL SIGNS,34OVER THE MEADOW,67PALE MOON,32PANSIES! PANSIES,69PARSLEY SOWN,38PIMPERNEL,79PLANT YOUR 'TATURS,43PLUCK BROOM,15PONDWEED SINKS,77PUT IN THE SICKLE,97RAINBOW TO WINDWARD,80REMEMBER IN ST. VINCENT'S,13ST. BARNABAS,73ST. FRANCIS,109ST. MATTHEW,104ST. NICHOLAS, ARCHBISHOP,124ST. NICHOLAS,123ST. ROCHE,98ST. SWITHUN IS CHRISTENING,89ST. SWITHUN'S DAY,89ST. THOMAS,124SATURDAY CHANGE,81SATURDAY'S MOON,81SEA-GULL,78SEPTEMBER BLOW SOFT,102SEPTEMBER DRIES,102SEPTEMBER THE FIFTEENTH,103SET GARLIKE,103SET STRAWBERRIES,119SHIVERING, QUIVERING,112SLEEP WITH YOUR HEAD,36SO NOW IS COME,126SOON WILL HIGH,75SOW PEASON,21SPRING IS HERE,34SPRING IS STRONG, 39SPRING'S AN EXPANSIVE,27SPRING WAS O'ER HAPPY,102SUMMER IN THE PENNILESS,88SUMMER IS GONE,105SUMMER IS NEAR,55SUMMER IS PURPLE,97SUNSET IN A CLEAR,31SWEET APRIL,51SWEET IS THE ROSE,87SWELLING DOWNS,87THAT MELLOW SEASON,104THE AUGUST GOLD,94THE BADGER PEEPS,18THE BALLAD SINGERS,50THE BARBERRY,103THE BLACKEST MONTH,10THE BROOM,68THE DIM DROOP,19THE DROOPING YEAR,124THE EMPTY PASTURES,10THE FAIR MAID,52THE FEATHERS OF THE WILLOW,105THE FIRST MONDAY,37THE FIRST SUNDAY,43THE FIRST THUNDER,37THE FLOWER BEDS,69THE FLUSH OF THE LANDSCAPE,105THE GOOD OLD YEAR,130THE GROUND IS CLEAR,100THE HOLLOW WINDS,75THE HOUSEKEEPER,21THE IGNORANT,73THE IRISH,52THEIR LOVELINESS,117THE LARK,50THE LAST YEAR'S LEAF,53THE LEEKE IS WHITE,24THE LINNET,61THE MELANCHOLY DAYS,119THE MICHAELMAS MOON,108THE MOON AND THE WEATHER,82THE MOON IN THE WANE,108THE NEARER TO TWELVE,82THE NEW YEAR,130THE NIGHTINGALE,89THE OAK BEFORE THE ASH,59THE PASTORAL COWSLIPS,83THE PIGEON NEVER,64THE PRETTY LARK,22THE RIPPLING SMILE,43THE SIXTH MONTH,70THE SOFTEST TURF,29THE STARLINGS ARE COME,62THE SUN HAS LONG,83THE SWEET WEST WIND,71THE WIND OF THE SOUTH,9THE YEAR'S ON THE WANE,119THEN DOTH THE JOYFUL,74THERE ARE ALWAYS,114THERE ARE TWELVE,54THERE IS AN OLD PROVERB,19THERE IS AN OLD,41THERE IS A RAPTUROUS,49THERE IS A SAYING,36THERE IS A TRADITION,34THERE IS NEVER A SATURDAY,125THERE IS STRANGE MUSIC,110THERE NEVER WAS,117THEY WHO BATHE IN MAY,54THORNY BALLS,117THOUGH NOW NO MORE,121THOU WILT REMEMBER,35THREE ICEMEN,58THRICE WELCOME CHRISTMAS,127THROUGH ALL THE SAD,10THUNDER IN SPRING,31TILL ST. JAMES'S,92TO SMELL WILD THYME,97TOSSING HIS MANE,25TO TALK OF THE WEATHER,80TRAMPING AFTER GROUSE,101'TWAS MIDSUMMER,74'TWAS ONE OF THE CHARMED,72'TWEEN MARTINMAS,118TWELFTH DAY,12TWIGHEE, TWIGHEE,51UNDER THE FURZE,30UNDER WATER,11UPON ST. DAVID'S DAY,24USE MAKETH MAISTRY,41WARWICKSHIRE COUNTRYMEN,10WEARY THE CLOUD,118WE HAVE PLOUGHED,101WELCOME, O MARCH,25WHAT AFFECTIONS,38WHAT CHILD,126WHAT WONDROUS LIFE,106WHEAT SWAYS HEAVY,95WHEN A COCK DRINKS,78WHEN A DAFFODIL,32WHEN AFTER A ROUGH,23WHEN A MOORLAND,23WHEN AUTUMN SAD,110WHEN CLAMOUR,65WHEN COUNTRY ROADS,29WHEN IN SPRING,47WHEN MACK'REL,73WHEN ON THE PURIFICATION,18WHEN OUR LORD,34WHEN OXEN,79WHEN PASSING O'ER,60WHEN RAIN CAUSES BUBBLES,79WHEN SEPTEMBER,103WHEN SHEEP BEGIN,78WHEN SHEEP DO HUDDLE,80WHEN THE CLOUDS,77WHEN THE CORN,59WHEN THE DIMPLED,63WHEN THE FALLING,104WHEN THE MOON,82WHEN THE NEW MOON,81WHEN THE SLOE TREE,44WHEN THE TENANTS,107WHEN THE WHITE PINKS,67WHEN THE WIND BLOWS,33WHEN THE WIND'S IN THE EAST,18WHEN THE WIND'S IN THE SOUTH,84WHEN THE WIND VEERS,80WHEN THERE ARE MANY,43WHEN THERE ARE THREE,122WHEN WINTRY WEATHER,30WHERE THE COPSE,88WHERE THE WIND IS,33WHERE WOODBINES,72WHILE WORMWOOD,90WHO EATS OYSTERS,95WHOEVER IS ILL,53WHO KNOWS WHAT,113WHO SETS AN APPLE,117WHO SHEARS HIS SHEEP,59WHO SOWETH IN RAIN,110WHY VALENTINE,19WILD WITH THE WINDS,103WILL YOU BUY,91WINTER IS SO,47WINTER'S THUNDER,13WINTER'S WHITE SHROUD,13WINTER TIME,11YACK-BOB DAY,65YELLOW, MELLOW,112YE WHO HAVE FELT,46YOUNG AND OLD,118
A BLOOM UPON,102A CALM JUNE,68A CAMOMILE BED,31A COLD JANUARY,10A DRIPPING JUNE,68A DRY MAY,62A FAIR DAY,10A FOG AND A SMALL MOON,81A FROSTY WINTER,26A GARDEN MUST BE LOOKED,97A HOAR FROST,21A JANUARY SPRING,15A KINDLY GOOD JANUARY,16ALL THE LAND,57ALL THE MONTHS,19ALL THINGS REJOICED,94ALL THROUGH THE SULTRY,84A LOVELY MORNING,56ALTHOUGH IT RAINS,43AMONG THE EAST COAST,61AN APRIL FROST,115AN EARLY WINTER,118ANY INDIVIDUAL,32APPLES, PEARES,116APPLE-TREE,12APRIL AND MAY,42APRIL COLD,43APRIL PRIDE OF,44APRIL! THE HAWTHORN,49A RAINBOW,81A SATURDAY'S RAINBOW,79A SHOWER OF RAIN,89AS MANY DAYS,35A SNOW YEAR,10A SUNSHINY SHOWER,79AS YET BUT SINGLE,44AT LATTER LAMMAS,94AT NEW YEAR'S TIDE,9A TUFT OF EVENING PRIMROSES,86A WET GOOD FRIDAY,38A WET JUNE,84A WET SUNDAY,118A WINDY MAY,59A YEAR OF SNOW,11BARNABY BRIGHT,73BEASTS DO TAKE COMFORT,79BEEF AND BACON,20BELOW THE HILL,70BESIDE THE GARDEN PATH,26BISHOP HALL,128BLANK EARTH-BALDNESS,27BLESSED BE ST. STEPHEN,128BLOSSOM OF THE ALMOND,48BLUE FLAGS,86BY FRAGRANT GALES,71CANDLEMAS SHINED,18CATHERINE AND CLEMENT,120CHILDERMAS DAY,128CLOUDS WITHOUT RAIN,81COME AWAY,68COME BUY,90COME GATHER,26COME LISTEN,54COME OUT OF DOORS,56COO-PI-COO,64COWS AND SHEEP,77CUCKOO,42CUT THISTLES IN MAY,60DARK WINTER IS WANING,57DAYS LENGTHEN,128DECAY, DECAY,114DECEMBER FROST,122DESCEND SWEET APRIL,39DID HE DO IT?,22DRY AUGUST,97EASTER IN SNOW,126FAIRE WAS THE DAWN,88FAIR RISING,17FEBRUARY FILL THE DITCH,19FIR CONES,77FIRST CUCKOO DAY,40FIRST SWALLOW DAY,42FLED ARE THE FROSTS,46FLOWERY MAY,55FOR MARCH,25FOR MORNING RAIN,96FOR THE LATTER PART,15FRESH HERRING,107FRIDAY'S A DAY,97FROM TWELVE TO TWO,120FROM WHATEVER QUARTER,35FULL MOON IN OCTOBER,114GEESE NOW,108GERVASE OF TILBURY,32GO AND LOOK AT OATS,59GOLDEN BILL,45GOOD GARDENER MINE,15GOOD HUSWIVES,98HAGMAN HEIGH,129HAIL BEAUTEOUS STRANGER,41HAIL ONCE AGAIN,33HAPPY BRITANNIA!,99HARK! THE COCK CROWS,129HARK! THE HOURS,44HAWTHORN BLOOM,62HE COMES, HE COMES!,42HERE'S A HEALTH,101HERE'S A PENNY-ROYAL,62HERE THE ROSEBUDS,70HE THAT WOULD LIVE,62HE THAT FREELY LOPS,25HOAR FROST AND GIPSIES,114HUSH! HUSH!,57I DO HOLD IT,122I DO NOT WANT CHANGE,92I EARLY ROSE,19IF APPLES BLOOM,35IF BEES STAY AT HOME,78IF BIRDS PIPE,125IF CANDLEMAS DAY,18IF CHRISTMAS DAY,126IF FEBRUARY,22IF FROSTS DO CONTINUE,122IF IT DOES NOT FREEZE,27IF IT IS COLD,118IF IT RAINETH,67IF IT THUNDERS,37IF JANIVEER CALENDS,9IF MARTINMAS,118IF MICHAELMAS DAY,107IF MIST'S IN THE NEW MOON,81IF NEW YEAR'S EVE,129IF NIGHTS THREE,78IF ON FRIDAY,120IF ST. BARTHOLOMEW,98IF ST. PAUL'S DAY,14IF SATURDAY'S MOON,82IF THAT CHRISTMAS,126IF THE DOWN,75IF THE FIRST OF JULY,85IF THE GRASS GROW,10IF THE ROBIN,16IF THE SAGE TREE,96IF THE WOODCOCK,100IF YOU EAT,108IF YOU SCARE,65IF YOU SWEEP,56I MET QUEEN SPRING,44IN APRIL,47IN AUGUST,95IN FORMER TIMES,41IN JULY,86IN MARCH AND IN APRIL,28IN MARCH IS GOOD GRAFFING,27IN MAY AND JUNE,55IN MY NOSTRILS,85IN OCTOBER AND BEGINNING,111IN OXFORDSHIRE,22IN SEPTEMBER,102I SOMETIMES THINK,85IN SPRING,36IN THE MORNING,32IN THE SARUM,107IN THE SOUTH,11IN WILD MOOR,39IT IS AFFIRMED,13IT IS ALWAYS,96IT IS UNLUCKY,53JANUARY THE FOURTEENTH,12JULY, TO WHOM,92KINDLE THE CHRISTMAS,127KNICK, KNOCK,20KNOW THE BEST SEASON,128LADY OF THE SPRINGE,48LAZY CATTLE,63LEAVE CROPPING FROM MAY,53LOAF-MASS DAY,94LOOK AT THE WEATHERCOCK,125LO, THE YOUNG MONTH,52LOVE ON A DAY,40MAARYES TAAILES,80MANY HAWS,103MARCH DOES FROM APRIL GAIN,31MARCH IN JANIVEER,11MARCH SEARCH,31MARCH WIND,31MAY'S WARM,61MAY, THOU MONTH,65MISTLETOE IS SAID,125MOAN, OH YE AUTUMN,112MOONWORT,64MOUSE EAR,87MY ONE MAN,75MYSTIC MISTLETOE, 125NEVER A FISHERMAN,96NIPCAKE, NIPCAKE,95NO SUMMER FLOWER,30NOTHING STIRS,106NO TEMPEST,90NO WEATHER IS ILL,84NOT REND-OFF,89NOW SET FOR THY POT,22NOW THE GLORIES,86NOW YELLOW HARVESTS,97OCTOBER BRINGS THE COLD,114OCTOBER'S GOLD,111OH! COME QUICKLY,66OH! FAINT DELICIOUS,38OH! GOLDEN, GOLDEN,92OH! THE ROSY MONTH,69OH! WHAT A DAWN,29OH! WHAT A MAY DAY,58OH! WINTER,16OH! LOVE-STAR,28OLD MAY DAY,58OLD YORKSHIRE CUSTOM,12ON ALL SAINT'S DAY,116ONE FOR THE MOUSE,21ONE MONTH IS PAST,17ONION SKIN,103ON ONE SIDE IS A FIELD,98ON ST. ANDREW'S,120ON SHROVE TUESDAY,20ON THE FIRST OF MARCH,24ON THURSDAY AT THREE,96ON TWELVE-EVE,11OUR VERNAL SIGNS,34OVER THE MEADOW,67PALE MOON,32PANSIES! PANSIES,69PARSLEY SOWN,38PIMPERNEL,79PLANT YOUR 'TATURS,43PLUCK BROOM,15PONDWEED SINKS,77PUT IN THE SICKLE,97RAINBOW TO WINDWARD,80REMEMBER IN ST. VINCENT'S,13ST. BARNABAS,73ST. FRANCIS,109ST. MATTHEW,104ST. NICHOLAS, ARCHBISHOP,124ST. NICHOLAS,123ST. ROCHE,98ST. SWITHUN IS CHRISTENING,89ST. SWITHUN'S DAY,89ST. THOMAS,124SATURDAY CHANGE,81SATURDAY'S MOON,81SEA-GULL,78SEPTEMBER BLOW SOFT,102SEPTEMBER DRIES,102SEPTEMBER THE FIFTEENTH,103SET GARLIKE,103SET STRAWBERRIES,119SHIVERING, QUIVERING,112SLEEP WITH YOUR HEAD,36SO NOW IS COME,126SOON WILL HIGH,75SOW PEASON,21SPRING IS HERE,34SPRING IS STRONG, 39SPRING'S AN EXPANSIVE,27SPRING WAS O'ER HAPPY,102SUMMER IN THE PENNILESS,88SUMMER IS GONE,105SUMMER IS NEAR,55SUMMER IS PURPLE,97SUNSET IN A CLEAR,31SWEET APRIL,51SWEET IS THE ROSE,87SWELLING DOWNS,87THAT MELLOW SEASON,104THE AUGUST GOLD,94THE BADGER PEEPS,18THE BALLAD SINGERS,50THE BARBERRY,103THE BLACKEST MONTH,10THE BROOM,68THE DIM DROOP,19THE DROOPING YEAR,124THE EMPTY PASTURES,10THE FAIR MAID,52THE FEATHERS OF THE WILLOW,105THE FIRST MONDAY,37THE FIRST SUNDAY,43THE FIRST THUNDER,37THE FLOWER BEDS,69THE FLUSH OF THE LANDSCAPE,105THE GOOD OLD YEAR,130THE GROUND IS CLEAR,100THE HOLLOW WINDS,75THE HOUSEKEEPER,21THE IGNORANT,73THE IRISH,52THEIR LOVELINESS,117THE LARK,50THE LAST YEAR'S LEAF,53THE LEEKE IS WHITE,24THE LINNET,61THE MELANCHOLY DAYS,119THE MICHAELMAS MOON,108THE MOON AND THE WEATHER,82THE MOON IN THE WANE,108THE NEARER TO TWELVE,82THE NEW YEAR,130THE NIGHTINGALE,89THE OAK BEFORE THE ASH,59THE PASTORAL COWSLIPS,83THE PIGEON NEVER,64THE PRETTY LARK,22THE RIPPLING SMILE,43THE SIXTH MONTH,70THE SOFTEST TURF,29THE STARLINGS ARE COME,62THE SUN HAS LONG,83THE SWEET WEST WIND,71THE WIND OF THE SOUTH,9THE YEAR'S ON THE WANE,119THEN DOTH THE JOYFUL,74THERE ARE ALWAYS,114THERE ARE TWELVE,54THERE IS AN OLD PROVERB,19THERE IS AN OLD,41THERE IS A RAPTUROUS,49THERE IS A SAYING,36THERE IS A TRADITION,34THERE IS NEVER A SATURDAY,125THERE IS STRANGE MUSIC,110THERE NEVER WAS,117THEY WHO BATHE IN MAY,54THORNY BALLS,117THOUGH NOW NO MORE,121THOU WILT REMEMBER,35THREE ICEMEN,58THRICE WELCOME CHRISTMAS,127THROUGH ALL THE SAD,10THUNDER IN SPRING,31TILL ST. JAMES'S,92TO SMELL WILD THYME,97TOSSING HIS MANE,25TO TALK OF THE WEATHER,80TRAMPING AFTER GROUSE,101'TWAS MIDSUMMER,74'TWAS ONE OF THE CHARMED,72'TWEEN MARTINMAS,118TWELFTH DAY,12TWIGHEE, TWIGHEE,51UNDER THE FURZE,30UNDER WATER,11UPON ST. DAVID'S DAY,24USE MAKETH MAISTRY,41WARWICKSHIRE COUNTRYMEN,10WEARY THE CLOUD,118WE HAVE PLOUGHED,101WELCOME, O MARCH,25WHAT AFFECTIONS,38WHAT CHILD,126WHAT WONDROUS LIFE,106WHEAT SWAYS HEAVY,95WHEN A COCK DRINKS,78WHEN A DAFFODIL,32WHEN AFTER A ROUGH,23WHEN A MOORLAND,23WHEN AUTUMN SAD,110WHEN CLAMOUR,65WHEN COUNTRY ROADS,29WHEN IN SPRING,47WHEN MACK'REL,73WHEN ON THE PURIFICATION,18WHEN OUR LORD,34WHEN OXEN,79WHEN PASSING O'ER,60WHEN RAIN CAUSES BUBBLES,79WHEN SEPTEMBER,103WHEN SHEEP BEGIN,78WHEN SHEEP DO HUDDLE,80WHEN THE CLOUDS,77WHEN THE CORN,59WHEN THE DIMPLED,63WHEN THE FALLING,104WHEN THE MOON,82WHEN THE NEW MOON,81WHEN THE SLOE TREE,44WHEN THE TENANTS,107WHEN THE WHITE PINKS,67WHEN THE WIND BLOWS,33WHEN THE WIND'S IN THE EAST,18WHEN THE WIND'S IN THE SOUTH,84WHEN THE WIND VEERS,80WHEN THERE ARE MANY,43WHEN THERE ARE THREE,122WHEN WINTRY WEATHER,30WHERE THE COPSE,88WHERE THE WIND IS,33WHERE WOODBINES,72WHILE WORMWOOD,90WHO EATS OYSTERS,95WHOEVER IS ILL,53WHO KNOWS WHAT,113WHO SETS AN APPLE,117WHO SHEARS HIS SHEEP,59WHO SOWETH IN RAIN,110WHY VALENTINE,19WILD WITH THE WINDS,103WILL YOU BUY,91WINTER IS SO,47WINTER'S THUNDER,13WINTER'S WHITE SHROUD,13WINTER TIME,11YACK-BOB DAY,65YELLOW, MELLOW,112YE WHO HAVE FELT,46YOUNG AND OLD,118