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Thirty Days Hath September", or "Thirty Days Has September", [1] is a traditional verse mnemonic used to remember the number of days in the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It arose as an oral tradition and exists in many variants. It is currently earliest attested in English, but was and remains common throughout Europe as well. Full:
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; Thirty-one the others date, Excepting February, twenty-eight; But in leap year we assign February, twenty-nine. So I've put that in.Hilesd 06:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC) And Another version that actually rhymes: 30 DAYS HAS NOVEMBER, APRIL, JUNE, AND SEPTEMBER;
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
September followed what was originally Sextilis, the "sixth" month, renamed Augustus in honor of the first Roman emperor, and preceded October, the "eighth" month that like September retained its numerical name contrary to its position on the calendar. A day was added to September in the mid-40s BC as part of the Julian calendar reform.
Ginsberg first recited "September on Jessore Road" in a poetry recitation held at St. George's Episcopal Church in New York City. [1] He also included the poem in a PBS television special filmed in New York on October 30, 1971, [12] when he performed it with improvised musical accompaniment, led by himself on harmonium. [13]
Thomas Miller (31 August 1807 – 24 October 1874) was an English poet and novelist who explored rural subjects. He was one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the 19th century and produced in all over 45 volumes, [1] including some "penny dreadfuls" on urban crime.
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917 ...