You May Also Like / View all maxioms
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
 He who would see old Hoghton right
 Must view it by the pale moonlight.  
 He who would see old Hoghton right
 Must view it by the pale moonlight. 
 The moving moon went up to the sky,
 And nowhere did abide;
  Softly she was going up,
read more 
 The moving moon went up to the sky,
 And nowhere did abide;
  Softly she was going up,
   And a star or two beside. 
 The moon pull'd off her veil of light,
 That hides her face by day from sight
  (Mysterious read more 
 The moon pull'd off her veil of light,
 That hides her face by day from sight
  (Mysterious veil, of brightness made,)
   That's both her lustre and her shade),
    And in the lantern of the night,
     With shining horns hung out her light. 
 The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
 Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
  read more 
 The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
 Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
  The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,
   Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars
    Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer
     Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,
      Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars. 
 Lend me thy pen
 To write a word
  In the moonlight.
   Pierrot, my friend!
read more 
 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!
        [Fr., Au clair de la lune
         Mon ami Pierrot,
          Prete moi ta plume
           Pour ecrire un mot;
            Ma chandelle est morte,
             Je n'ai plus de feu,
              Ouvre moi ta porte,
               Pour l'amour de Dieu.] 
Reach for the moon, because if you don't make it you'll land among the stars.
Reach for the moon, because if you don't make it you'll land among the stars.
Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.
Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.
 Soon as the evening shades prevail,
 The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
  And nightly to the read more 
 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.