"Away in a meadow all covered with snow
The little old groundhog looks for his shadow
The clouds in the sky determine our fate
If winter will leave us all early or late."- Don Halley
"Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?" - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."
- Gertrude S. Wister
"Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow."
- R. H. Newell
"Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
A mystic child is set in these still hours.
I keep this time, even before the flowers,
Sacred to all the young and the unborn."
Alice Meynell, In February
Amethyst
February Birth Flower: The Violet symbolizes faithfulness, humility, and chastity
February:
National Heart Month
National Dental Month
February 2 - Wednesday Groundhog Day
February 3 - Thursday Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit
February 6 - Sunday Super Bowl Sunday - Arlington, Texas
February 8 - Tuesday Boy Scout Day - 101st Anniversary
February 8 - Tuesday Vasant Panchami - Hindu
February 12 - Saturday Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
February 14 - Monday Prophet's Birthday - Mawlid al-Nabi - Islamic
February 15 - Tuesday Susan B. Anthony Day - Women's Rights Movement
February 15 - Tuesday Nirvana Day - Buddhist
February 21 - Monday Presidents' Day (Observed) - US National Holiday
February 21 - Tuesday Family Day - Canada
February 22 - Tuesday Washington's Birthday
February 27 - Sunday Academy Awards
"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the withered air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
The sled and traveler stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, and housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wan February with weeping cheer,
Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
Down misty roads of mire and rime,
Before thy pale and fitful face
The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
But lit with hopes that light the year's."- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Year's Carols: February
"In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
In floating, curling sprays,
The golden flower comes shining though the woods
These February days;
Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
To bring her gayly in,
This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida -
The yellow jessamine."- Constance Fenimore Woolson, Yellow Jessamine
Famous people born in February, click here.
Holiday Examiner, click here.
"Promoting Purity in Mind and Actions," click here.
"Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering."- William Cullen Bryant, A Winter Piece
