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Religious literature3 quotes
Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. — Genesis 1:16 · 1405 BCHe makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632Tragedy (play)3 quotes
O, swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. — William Shakespeare · 1597It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more nearer Earth than she was wont
And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare · 1604The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. — William Shakespeare · 1616Epic poem1 quote
Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667Narrative poem1 quote
Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Political literature1 quote
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962