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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
If the Sun and Moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out.
william blake— William Blake, Auguries of Innocence (1803), line 109.
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853).
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.
See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part VI, line 462.
It is the very error of the moon: she comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act V, scene 2, line 109.
The moon is at her full, and riding high, floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky, are all asleep to-night.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, The Tides.
The sun had sunk and the summer skies were dotted with specks of light that melted soon in the deep moon-rise that flowed over Groton Height.
— M'Donald Clarke, The Graveyard.
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.
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.
He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese.
— Sir Thomas More, English Works, p. 256. Same phrase in Blackloch—Hatchet of Heresies. (1565). Rabelais, Book I, Chapter XI. Jack Jugler in Dodsley's Old Plays. Ed. by Hazlitt, Volume II.
Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone, wi' the auld moon in hir arme.
— Thomas Percy, Reliques. Sir Patrick Spens. See also Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
Day glimmer'd in the east, and the white moon hung like a vapor in the cloudless sky.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, Italy, The Lake of Geneva.
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.
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.
That I could clamber to the frozen moon and draw the ladder after me.
— Quoted by Arthur Schopenhauer in Parerga and Paralipomena.
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)
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.
Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
Buzz Aldrin— American engineer and former astronaut
