If the Moon On the Skies
If the moon on the skies does not roam,
But cools, like a seal above,
My dead husband enters the
To read the letters of love
If the moon on the skies does not roam,
But cools, like a seal above,
My dead husband enters the
To read the letters of love
Mother, the moon I want as my toy
I will roll on the floor,
Not come to your lap,
Nor have my hair-braid combed
Thief of the moon, thou robber of old delight,
Thy charms have stolen the star-gold, quenched the moon- Cold, cold are the birds that, bubbling out of night,
Cried once to my ears their unremembered tune- Dark are those orchards, their l...
EN of the silver bow
--by thy pale beam,
Alone and pensive,
I delight to stray,
This fact is clear…
Both man and
Prize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;
And most delighted still they are,
The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,
Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,
A vast balloon,
Till it takes off, and sinks
HE moon upon the wide sea Placidly looks down,
Smiling with her mild face,
Though the ocean frown
Clouds may dim her brightness,
A defeated politician is in circulation again, as we say of coins, and his mouth is full of words
His words have all been handled smooth
They'd shrink, like lozenges, except some sweat from everyone who's had them is on them
He coul...
When I was a boy I called the moon awhite plate of jade, sometimes it lookedlike a great mirror hanging in the sky,first came the two legs of the fairyand the cassia tree, but for whom the rabbitkept on pounding medical herbs,
Ijust could not...
O lovely moon, how well do I recall The time,--'tis just a year--when up this hill I came, in my distress, to gaze at thee: And thou suspended wast o'er yonder grove, As now thou art, which thou with light dost fill
But stained with mist, and...
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SS of the witching hour; Blest Contemplation's placid friend; Oft in my solitary bow'r,
I mark thy lucid beam From thy crystal car descend,
Whitening the spangled heath, and limpid sapphire stream
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HT in the moon the only light is on Sunday
What was the sensible decision
The sensible decision was that notwithstanding many declarations and more music, not even withstanding the choice and a torch and a collection, notwithstand...