But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men
-Walter De La Mare, The Listeners
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Two Moons
(Baja)
Secure, with only two moons listening, Until the whole harmonious landscape rang -Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood's Party |
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A Newer World
(Yosemite)
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes, the low moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses |
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Silent Shore
(Redwood)
the silent shore Awaits at last even those who longest miss -Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1818-23 |
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Untitled (Eiffel Tower)
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Untitled (Eiffel Tower)
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Soft Deluge
(French Alps)
From unassisted vision hid, the moons To cheer remoter planets numerous pour'd, By him in all their mingled tracts were seen. He also fix'd the wandering Queen of Night, Whether she wanes into a scanty orb, Or, waxing broad, with her pale shadowy light, In a soft deluge overflows the sky. -James Thomson, A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, 1727 |
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Morning Moon
(French Alps)
The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside-- -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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Wind of Night
(SF Bay)
Thine eyes glow'd in the glare Of the moon's dying light; As a fen-fire's beam On a sluggish stream Gleams dimly--so the moon shone there, And it yellow'd the strings of thy tangled hair, That shook in the wind of night. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines: The cold earth slept below, 1823 |
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Calling
(SF Bay)
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, -Alfred Lord Tennyson, Crossing the Bar, 1889 |
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Image of the Sky
(Washington, D.C.)
Though bent on pleasant pilgrimage, we stood Looking upon the evening, and the flood Which lay between the city and the shore, Pav'd with the image of the sky.... -Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo (excerpt), 1824 |
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