"Moonbeam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... touches the top of that round hole, creeps up the side. Then the hole is a disc of light a moonbeam strikes straight through it across the grey green of the circle that the stones mark, and as the moon rises the moonbeam slants downward. The children have drawn back till they stand close to the lovers. The moonbeam slants more and more; now it touches the far end of the stone, now it draws ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit
... midst his cross of red Triumphant Michael brandished; The moonbeam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement ...
— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe
... down the line of darkened battlements, Bright on each lattice of the barrack walls, Where the low arching sallyport indents, Seen through its gloom beyond, the moonbeam falls. All is repose save where the camping tents Mock the white gravestones farther on, where sound No morning guns for reveille, nor whence No drum-beat calls retreat, but still is ever found Waiting and present on each ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... a great blast, and the thread was gone. In the air Nowhere Was a moonbeam bare; Far off and harmless the shy stars shone— Sure and certain ...
— Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 • Various
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