Children 's literature Quote by Neale Osborne

“Before drawing the curtain across the porthole, Lydia took a peek outside. The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface…

— Neale Osborne

“The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits--on the French coast the light Gleams and is…

— Matthew Arnold

“The full moon reflected in water, the water contained in the bowl, and the thirsty man deep in sleep.”

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills. Its light poured softly in her…

— Robert Frost

“a tangle of sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfumes of white blossoms somewhere near, but the…

— kate chopin

“Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white moonshine. [...] Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The moon to me has always been a guiding force. Just sitting there so quietly and peacefully, glowing and hanging low in the sky…

— Alyne Hart

“There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking…

— Charles Dickens

“Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened,…

— James Joyce

“The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while…

— Rachel Cohn

“The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with the silver…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.”

— Li-Young Lee