MOON

Related Subjects: Heavens, Night, Romance, Stars, Sun

1. Late, late yestreen I saw the new moon,
   Wi' the auld moon in her arm.—Anonymous
   

2. The moon, like a flower,
   In heaven's high bower
   With silent delight
   Sits and smiles on the night.—BLAKE, Night
   

3. The devil's in the moon for mischief; they
   Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon
   Their nomenclature; there is not a day,
   The longest, not the twenty-first of June,
   Sees half the business in a wicked way,
   On which three single hours of moonshine smile—
   And then she looks so modest all the while!—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. The moving Moon went up the sky,
   And no where did abide:
   Softly she was going up,
   And a star or two beside.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

5. The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.—EMERSON, Essays
   

6. What is there in thee, Moon! that thou should'st move
   My heart so potently?—KEATS, Endymion
   

7. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.—ALFRED NOYES, The Highwayman
   

8. Clear moon, frost soon.—Proverb
   

9. You gazed at the moon and fell in a gutter.—Proverb
   

10. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.—Proverb
    

11. Or think that the moon is made of a green cheese.—Proverb
    

12. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

13. Upon the corner of the moon,
    There hangs a vaporous drop profound.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

14. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

15. How slow
    This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
    Like to a step-dame or a dowager
    Long withering out a young man's revenue.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

16. It is the very error of the moon;
    She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,
    And makes men mad.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

17. Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear,
    That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops,—
    
    Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
    That monthly .changes in her circled orb,
    Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

18. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
    Who is already sick and pale with grief,
    That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
    Be not her maid, since she is envious.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

19. How now, moon-calf? How dost thine ague?—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

20. Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
    

21. Meet me by moonlight alone.—J. A. WADE, Meet Me by Moonlight Alone
    

22. Lo, the moon ascending,
    Up from the east the silvery round moon,
    Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
    Immense and silent moon.—WALT WHITMAN, Dirge for Two Veterans