Lunar Lore

 

 When Luna first her scattered fear recalls,
If with blunt horns she holds the dusky air,
Seamen and swains predict abundant showers.
            – Virgil, “Georgics.”

 …

 The moon had set. There was not any light,
  Save of the lonely legion’d watch-stars pale
In outer air, and what by fits made bright
  Hot oleanders in a rosy vale…

 – Bulwer Lytton, “A Night in Italy.”
…

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.
  – Addison, “Spectator”. No. 465. “Ode.” St. 2

…

The folk of that country begin all their things in the new moon,
and they worship much the moon and the sun and often-time kneel
against them.

 – “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville” (ca. 1500).
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