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The moon is a silver pin-head vast, that holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.
The moving moon went up the sky, and nowhere did abide. Softly she was going up, and a star or two beside.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Moon arose, she shone upon the lake, which lay one smooth expanse of silver light. She shone upon the hills and rocks, and cast upon their hollows and their hidden glens a blacker depth of shade.
Robert SoutheySoon as the evening shades prevail, the moon takes up the wondrous tale. And nightly to the listening earth repeats the story of her birth.
joseph addisonAs the moon's fair image quaketh in the raging waves of ocean. Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, moves with silent peaceful motion.
Heinrich HeineThe moon pull'd off her veil of light, that hides her face by day from sight (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade). And in the lantern of the night, with shining horns hung out her light.
The moon looks on many brooks, the brook can see no moon but this.
thomas mooreThat's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.
There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.
He who would see old Hoghton right must view it by the pale moonlight.
william hazlittThe moon, the moon, so silver and cold, her fickle temper has oft been told. Now shady now bright and sunny. But of all the lunar things that change, the one that shows most fickle and strange, and takes the most eccentric range, is the moon so called of honey!
thomas hoodThe moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLet the air strike our tune, whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.
thomas middletonThe sun was gone now; the curled moon was like a little feather fluttering far down the gulf.
That I could clamber to the frozen moon and draw the ladder after me.
Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
walter scottThe crimson Moon, uprising from the sea, with large delight, foretells the harvest near.
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.
vitruviusWho says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside you window, then raise you hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go... That was easy!
Vena NazarianYou may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...
george r. r. martinMore than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean.
Bill NyeYou can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan