september, n.Definitions

September is the most beautiful of words, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

September is when children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

September is the month when amateur gardeners put off till October the chores they should have finished in August.

September is a month that dresses herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.

September is the time to begin again, when one can smell the wood-smoke in the forest.

September is wandering through the warm winds of summer's wreckage where summer's ghosts are welcomed.

September is the month when the children go back to school, and their mothers go back to bed.

September is the month when a lot of people discover what a good time the moths had while they were on vacation.