Part 1

A MEDLEY OF WEATHER LORE

A MEDLEY OF WEATHER LORE

COLLECTED BY M. E. S. WRIGHT

"An almanack is out at twelve months day, My legacy it doth endure for aye, But take you notice, though 'tis but a hint, It far exceeds some books of greater print."

THE SHEPHERD'S LEGACY. (John Claridge, 1670)

Horace G. Commin, Bournemouth 1913

THE ANCHOR PRESS, LTD., TIPTREE, ESSEX.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE 5

JANUARY 9

FEBRUARY 17

MARCH 24

APRIL 37

MAY 52

JUNE 67

JULY 85

AUGUST 94

SEPTEMBER 100

OCTOBER 109

NOVEMBER 116

DECEMBER 121

INDEX 131

PREFACE

In this collection of Weather Lore and Poetry I beg to acknowledge with gratitude permission from Messrs. Macmillan to quote lines from Tennyson, Charles Turner, Alfred Austin, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, T. E. Brown, and Francis Doyle.

From Messrs. Longman and Green from Jean Ingelow, from "Four Bridges," and "An Afternoon at a Parsonage." Andrew Lang, from "A Ballade of Summer." William Morris' from "The Earthly Paradise," and "Love is Enough," and Edwin Arnold, from "Bloom of an Almond Tree."

From Messrs. Kegan Paul and Trench from Lewis Morris. From Messrs. Chatto and Windus (by the courtesy of Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton) for the inclusion of verses by A. Swinburne, and from the Walter Scott Publishing Company for the use of Selections of R. W. Emerson and Owen Meredith. I have endeavoured to avoid infringing copyrights, but if I should have done so inadvertently I beg that my sincere apologies maybe accepted.

M. E. S. WRIGHT.