Lunar Lore with GrannyMoon
Greatly shining,
The Autumn moon floats in the thin sky;
And the fish-ponds shake their backs
And show their dragon scales
As she passes over them.
– Amy Lowell, “Wind and Silver.”
The Autumn moon floats in the thin sky;
And the fish-ponds shake their backs
And show their dragon scales
As she passes over them.
– Amy Lowell, “Wind and Silver.”
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A cluster of summer trees,
A bit of the sea,
A pale evening moon.
– Enshiu, quoted in Kakuzo Okakura, “The Book of Tea”.
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A bit of the sea,
A pale evening moon.
– Enshiu, quoted in Kakuzo Okakura, “The Book of Tea”.
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When February sun shines cold,
There comes a day when in the air
The wings of winter slow unfold,
And show the golden summer there.
– Philip H. Savage, in the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” for 1901
There comes a day when in the air
The wings of winter slow unfold,
And show the golden summer there.
– Philip H. Savage, in the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” for 1901
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The moon rising solemnly over the crest
Of the hills to the east of my station
Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west
Like a visible new creation.
The moon rising solemnly over the crest
Of the hills to the east of my station
Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west
Like a visible new creation.
– Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary.”
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Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanac;
find out moonshine, find out moonshine.
– Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” III, i.
Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanac;
find out moonshine, find out moonshine.
– Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” III, i.
