| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | August |
| | | | In the parching August wind, |
| Cornfields bow the head, |
| Sheltered in round valley depths, |
| On low hills outspread. |
Christina G. Rossetti. | 1 |
| | Dead is the air, and still! the leaves of the locust and walnut |
| Lazily hang from the boughs, inlaying their intricate outlines |
| Rather on space than the skyon a tideless expansion of slumber. |
Bayard Taylor. | 2 | | |
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