West wind

A west wind is a wind that blows from the west, in an eastward direction.

Quotes

He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars;
Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire
And visions rise and change which kill me with desire — —Emily Brontë,
The Prisoner, (1845)

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
And April's in the west wind, and daffodils.—John Masefield,
Salt-Water Ballads, (1902), "The West Wind"

• He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs,
  With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars;
  Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire
  And visions rise and change which kill me with desire —
  • Emily Brontë, The Prisoner, (1845).

• As winds come whispering lightly from the West,
  Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 70.

• The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
  • Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), ch. 26.

• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
  I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
  For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
  And April's in the west wind, and daffodils.
  • John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, (1902), "The West Wind".

• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
  I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
  For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
  And April's in the west wind, and daffodils.
  • John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, (1902), "The West Wind".

• The west wind is greater than those who live there.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection IV at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• Sweet and low, sweet and low,
  Wind of the western sea,
  Low, low, breathe and blow,
  Wind of the western sea!
  Over the rolling waters go,
  Come from the dying moon, and blow,
  Blow him again to me;
  While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
  • Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, (1847), Part III, Song: Sweet and Low, st. 1.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

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

• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
  I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
  For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
  And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.
  • John Masefield, The West Wind.

• O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
  Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
  Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
  Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
  Pestilence-stricken multitudes.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, Part I.

• * O wind,
  If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, Part V.

See also

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