moonlight quotes

There may be trouble ahead But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance Let's face the music and dance

- Irving originally Israel Baline Berlin
  'Let's Face the Music and Dance', in the film Follow the Fleet.

Slow tyranny of moonlight, moonlight loved And changed.

- (Harold) Hart Crane
  White Buildings,'Voyages', pt.5.

In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by? Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry; Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky? Have you heard the still voice callingyet so warm, and yet so cold: 'I'm the Mother-Bush that bore you! Come to me when you are old'?

- Henry Hertzberg Lawson
'On the Night Train', collected in Colin Roderick (ed) Henry Lawson: Collected Verse (3 vols,1967^9).

In the moonlight and the starlight, Fair Nokomis bore a daughter. And she called her name Wenonah, As the first-born of her daughters.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   The naming of Hiawatha's mother. The Song of Hiawatha, pt.3,'Hiawatha's Childhood'. The name is now usually spelt Winona.

The aloe seemed to ride†like a ship with the oars lifted. Bright moonlight hung upon the lifted oars like water, and on the green wave glittered the dew.

-Beauchamp
  Bliss and Other Stories,'Prelude'.

   Just a wee deoch-an-doris, Just a wee yin, that's a'. Just a wee deoch-an-doris, Afore we gang awa'. There's a wee wifie waitin' In a wee but-an-ben; If ye can say 'It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht', Ye're a'richt, ye ken.

- R F Morrison
  'Just a Wee Deoch-an-Doris', chorus. The song was popularized by Sir Harry Lauder.

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding Ridingriding The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

- Alfred Noyes
  'The Highwayman'.

Watch for me by moonlight; I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

- Alfred Noyes
  'The Highwayman'.

I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

- F(rancis) R(eginald) Scott
  'Trans Canada'.

If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 2, stanza1.

And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'The Question', stanza 3.

She has made me in love with a cold climate, and frost and snow, with a northern moonlight.

- Robert Southey
  On MaryWollstonecraft. Letter to his brotherThomas Southey, 28 Apr.

All Americans believethat theyare bornfishermen.Fora man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

-John Ernest Steinbeck
  Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   The last light has gone out of the world, except This moonlight lying on the grass like frost Beyond the brink of the tall elm's shadow.

- (Philip) Edward Thomas
  'Liberty'.