A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.545^60.

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

-Farjeon, Eleanor
  Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

   Auld Reikie! wale o' ilka town That Scotland kens beneath the moon; Whare couthy chiels at e'ening meet Their bizzing craigs and mous to weet.

-Ferber, Edna
  'Auld Reikie,  A Poem'.

It was the lovely moonöshe lifted Slowly her white brow among Bronze cloud-waves that ebbed and drifted Faintly, faintlier afar.

-Freeman,John
  'It  Was the Lovely Moon'.

Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  North of Boston,'The Death of the Hired Man'.

For I have a song to sing,O!† It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng,O! It's the song of a merryman moping mum, Whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   Jack Point's song, TheYeomen of the Guard.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy,Ithink, likeall menat seawho livetoo closeto each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

-Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
  Rites of Passage, closing words.

Say, it's onlya paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea.

-Harburg, E(dgar) Y(ip)
  'It's Only a Paper Moon' (with Billy Rose, music by Harold Arlen).

The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Brave New World, ch.5.

Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeleine's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 25.

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving thegoal, beforethisdecadeisout, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  State of the Union message to Congress, May.

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

-Lardner, Dionysus
  Speech to the British  Association for the  Advancement of Science, London.

They dined on mince, and slices 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.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

By the shore of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, 516 Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  The Song of Hiawatha, pt.3,'Hiawatha's Childhood'.

Si tengo la fortuna de que con tu alma mi dolor se integre, te dire¤   entre melanco¤  lico y alegre las singulares cosas de la luna. If I am fortunate enough for your soul to mix with my sorrow, I will tell you, half with melancholy, half with gladness, Unique things about the moon.

-Lugones, Leopoldo
  Lunario sentimental,'Divagacio¤   n lunar' ('Lunar digression').

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes, And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the empty skies.

-MacColl, EwanJames Miller
  'The First Time Ever I SawYour Face', stanza1.

And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way; And oft as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.65^72.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, l.372^83.

But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, l.1011^16.

The white saucer like some full moon descends At last from the clouds of the table above.

-Monro, Harold Edward
  'Milk for the Cat'.