Famous Moon Quotes

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
-- Erasmus Darwin

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

Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?
-- Robert Burton

He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no; That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight, Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate; Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, And prove that she's not made of green cheese.
-- Samuel Butler

He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
-- William Hazlitt

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

Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.
-- Madison Julius Cawein

Jove, thou regent of the skies.
-- Homer

Lend me thy pen To write a word In the moonlight. Pierrot, my friend! My candle's out, I've no more fire;-- For love of God Open thy door!
-- Folk Songs

Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?
-- Thomas Hood

Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.
-- John Gay

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.
-- William Wallace Harney

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

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.
-- Jean Ingelow

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!
-- Lord Byron

The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.
-- William R Alger

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

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
-- Jean Ingelow

The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight That's both her lustre and her shade), And in the lantern of the night, With shining horns hung out her light.
-- Samuel Butler

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
-- Thomas Hood