Harvest Moon Quotes

• The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

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  Ray Bradbury

  Running   Moon   Cymbals  

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.

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  Carl Sandburg

  Beautiful   Moon   Night  

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

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  Matsuo Basho

  Moon   Night   Ponds  

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• The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.

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  Donald C. Peattie

  Summer   Wise   Spring  

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• 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.

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  Eleanor Farjeon

  Moon   Car   Water  

  1958 Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

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• It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country   Children   Sleep  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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