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The moon is a silver pin-head vast, that holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.


— William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.

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The moving moon went up the sky, and nowhere did abide. Softly she was going up, and a star or two beside.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798; 1817), Part IV.

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The 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 Southey

— Robert Southey, Madoc in Wales (1805), Part II. The Close of the Century.

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Soon 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 addison

— Joseph Addison, Spectator No. 465, Ode.

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As 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 Heine

— Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs, New Spring, Prologue, No. 23.

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The 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.


— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto I, line 905.

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Into the sunset's turquoise marge the moon dips, like a pearly barge. Enchantment sails through magic seas, to fairyland Hesperides, over the hills and away.

madison cawein

— Madison Cawein, At Sunset, Stanza 1.

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The moon looks on many brooks, the brook can see no moon but this.

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, While Gazing on the Moon's Light.

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This cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night.

william blake

— The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2

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That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.


— Neil Armstrong, Commander Apollo 11, as he stepped off the LM 'Eagle' and onto the Moon

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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.


— Neil Armstrong, Apollo mission press conference.

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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.


— Gerry Driscoll, Pink Floyd, "Eclipse", The Dark Side of the Moon.

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He who would see old Hoghton right must view it by the pale moonlight.

william hazlitt

— William Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases (1869), p. 196. Hoghton Tower is not far from Blackburn.

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How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon. From the slow opening curtains of the clouds walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

george croly

— George Croly, Diana.

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On the road, the lonely road, under the cold, white moon. Under the rugged trees he strode, whistled and shifted his heavy load, whistled a foolish tune.


— W. W. Harney, The Stab.

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The 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 hood

— Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Honeymoon.

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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.


— Sir William Jones.

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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 Longfellow

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harvest Moon.

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Let the air strike our tune, whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.

thomas middleton

— Thomas Middleton, The Witch, Act V, scene 2.

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Again thou reignest in thy golden hall, rejoicing in thy sway, fair queen of night! The ruddy reapers hail thee with delight. Theirs is the harvest, theirs the joyous call for tasks well ended ere the season's fall.

William S. Roscoe

— Roscoe, Sonnet, To the Harvest Moon.

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The sun was gone now; the curled moon was like a little feather fluttering far down the gulf.


— D. G. Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, Stanza 10.

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That I could clamber to the frozen moon and draw the ladder after me.


— Quoted by Arthur Schopenhauer in Parerga and Paralipomena.

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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 scott

— Walter Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Chapter XVII.

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The crimson Moon, uprising from the sea, with large delight, foretells the harvest near.


— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Select Poems, The Harvest Moon.

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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.

vitruvius

— De architecture, Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 5 (~15 BC)

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Who 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 Nazarian

— From her book, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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You 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. martin

— "A Game of Thrones" (1997), said by Eddard to Arya.

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More 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 Nye

— Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World (2015)

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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Gary Allan

— Learning to Live with Me (1999)

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