South wind

A south wind is a wind that originates in the south and blows north.

Quotes

• Holy Inana embarked on the [...] the barge. [...] The south wind, that south wind, rose up. The evil wind, that evil wind, rose up. In the distant heavens. [...] The fisherman [...] Adagbir answered holy Inana: [...] "My lady, if you travel on the barge, and he raises the south wind, that south wind, and he raises the evil wind, that evil wind, barges and small boats will sink in the marshes."
  • Anonymous, Inanna and An, Old Babylonian period, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

• Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.
  • Bedouin legend, as quoted in Mr. Darcy Takes the Plunge (2010) by J. Marie Croft

• The south wind is harmful to man.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection IV at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
  In the gay woods and in the golden air,
  Like to a good old age released from care,
  Journeying, in long serenity, away.
  In such a bright, late quiet, would that I
  Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,
  And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
  And music of kind voices ever nigh;
  And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
  Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.
  • William Cullen Bryant, "October", line 5, in The United States Review and Literary Gazette (October 1826), p. 59

• And the South Wind—he was dressed
  With a ribbon round his breast
  That floated, flapped, and fluttered
  In a riotous unrest
  And a drapery of mist
  From the shoulder to the wrist
  Floating backward with the motion
  Of the waving hand he kissed.
  • James Whitcomb Riley, "The South Wind and the Sun", stanza 2, in Afterwhiles (1887), p. 23

See also

• Air
• Flight
• East wind
• Ninlil
• North wind
• Storm
• Tornado
• Weather
• West wind
• Wind waves
• Zephyr

External links

• Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 872-74