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About the Moon

The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
Blake, William

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done-
Carroll, Lewis

The moving moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

…the moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth –rate.
Fry, Christopher

As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene;
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O'er the dark trees a yellower verdue shed,
And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Homer

They died on mince, and slice of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon, the moon,
They danced by the light of the moon
Lear, Edward

The moon is the Rosetta stone of the solar system, and to the student of the origin of the earth and planets, this lifeless body is even more important than Mars and Venus.
Jastrow, Robert & Newell, Homer E.

By death the moon was gathered in
Long ago, ah long ago;
Yet still the silver corpse must spin
And with another's light must glow.
Her frozen mountains must forget
Their primal hot volcanic breath,
Doomed to revolve for ages yet,
Void amphitheatres of death.
Huxley, Julian(i love this one!)

Queen of heaven, fair of face,
Undefiled by alien feet;
Where the Sun's untrammeled heat
Meets the cold of outer space;
Soon no more the Queen of Night,
For your conquest is in sight.
Lightner, Alice

Saw the moon rise from the water,
Rippling, rounding from the water,
Saw the flecks and shadows on it,
Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?"
And the good Nokomis answered,
"Once a warrior very angry,
Seized his grandmother and threw her
Up into the sky at midnight;
Right against the moon he threw her;
"Tis her body that you see there".
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To behold the wandering moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had bin led astray
Through the heaven's wise pathless way;
And oft, as if her head show bowed,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud
Milton, John

There is no one among you, my brave colleagues, who has not seen the moon, or at least heard speak of it.
Verne, Jules