Lunar Lore

Lunar Lore with GrannyMoon 

 
 It happens that the moon appears
More swiftly to return to any sign
Along the Zodiac, than doth the sun . . .
    – Lucretius,  De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things)
… 
Slowly the solemn moon its full orb rears,
  And through the skies its lucid influence throws,
Each glittering star ’mid fleecy clouds appears,
  And through th’ immeasurable path of heaven
  The high galaxy glows.
            – Ann Batten Cristall, “Poetical Sketches.”
… 
The moving moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up
And a star or two beside.
   – Coleridge, “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.”

Let not my Heart-soul be driven away from me;
  and grant me a sight of the Disk of the Sun
  and the beholding of the Moon for ever and ever.
 – Egyptian Book of the Dead