Jean Ingelow Quotes

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

There's no night without stars.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

I like to look at the skyline and the moon.

Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.