No Sun - No Moon

[Sticks]

No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
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 (1799-1845)

(I assume this poem is out of copyright :shifty: )

[Maksutov]

Ah, November, my second favorite month of the year!

During which one can observe the Sun and the Moon, as well as morning, dawn, noon, dusk, warmth, cheerfulness, and a host of other things amplified by the time of the season.

And look out for the Leonids!

Old Hood sounds rather prissy and effete, and should have had his poetic license revoked!

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[Donnie B.]

Plenty of birds around here in November, and all winter long for that matter.

Flowers, too, if you have some late-blooming mums.

But as Massachusetts' cloudiest month is November, the Sun, Moon, dawn, and dusk parts are pretty accurate.

[tofu]

I live in Florida. All your birds are belong to us.

[Chuck]

November is like heaven. The daily high temperatures stay under 90°F unlike the 110°F or more of summer. I guess it depends on where you live.

[farmerjumperdon]

You forgot - NO BUGS!

We actually have lots of birds all winter. Not as many as spring, but still quite a few.

[Maksutov]

I live in Florida. All your birds are belong to us.Capistrano (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/swallows1.html) might have an issue with that.

[Celestial Mechanic]

I live in Florida. All your birds are belong to us.
Hinkley (http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Mar00/2098.html), Ohio might also have an issue with that.

[Gillianren]

I love November. Summer is well and truly over, so I can wear some of my favorite clothes in which I'd sweat to death and die in the summer. The leaves are all sorts of lovely colours, and we actually have quite a few clear, crisp, clean days, with leaves falling and wind blowing. Oh, it makes me so happy! So much better than back home, where we didn't really have seasons at all (or, as people joked, "Fire, flood, wind, and earthquake").

[Sticks]

That time is rolling around

I found this longer version here (http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/82/357.html)

[Noclevername]

No Sun, no Solar System, no problem.

[Swift]

Its not true around here. We have plenty of Vember.
:confused:



:shifty:

[Trebuchet]

I love November. Summer is well and truly over, so I can wear some of my favorite clothes in which I'd sweat to death and die in the summer. The leaves are all sorts of lovely colours, and we actually have quite a few clear, crisp, clean days, with leaves falling and wind blowing. Oh, it makes me so happy! So much better than back home, where we didn't really have seasons at all (or, as people joked, "Fire, flood, wind, and earthquake").

Aw Gillian, you're spoiling it. I was going to say we have November here 10 months of the 12!

We do have lots of birds at our feeders, however.

[Lianachan]

Also, of course, used as lyrics by The Art Of Noise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Noise).

*edited afterthought - the poem, that is

[mike alexander]

I also like November, firing up the branches and clippings in the big old drum. It's when you gather up the remains of Summer and burn them in the crematorium of the long days.

[Jens]

Old Hood sounds rather prissy and effete, and should have had his poetic license revoked!

He did, apparently, In 1845. :)

[jfribrg]

Benny Hill recited a shortened version :


No birds.
No bees.
No flowers.
No leaves.
No wonder.
November.

[Trebuchet]

Of course the first weekend in November is always the World Championships of Punkin Chunkin (http://www.punkinchunkin.com/main.htm)!

[Sticks]

It's November (http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/82/357.html) again

[Sticks]

I just realised after bumping my old thread, the first reply I had to my OP was from the late Maksutov, sadly no longer with us

:(

[davidlpf]

I think you are confusing November for living in England. :D

[Gillianren]

I just realised after bumping my old thread, the first reply I had to my OP was from the late Maksutov, sadly no longer with us

:(

It's the charm some of the old threads have for me--just a moment or two more with Mak.

[Chip]

If you like late-Romantic classical music, you should look for a recording of the orchestral tone poem "November Woods" by the English composer and poet, Arnold Bax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Woods_(Bax)

[Chuck]

The nice thing about bumped old threads is that I don't have to post the same thing again.

[Trebuchet]

November 1 here was actually very nice -- sunny, blue skies, the whole 9 yards. As compared to October 31, when it rained all day, letting up just enough in the evening to allow the trick-or-treaters to come out. Quite a lovely moon out my window just now.

[Sticks]

It was bucketing down over here