“Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen —”
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John Keats 211
English Romantic poet 1795–1821Related quotes
The Courtin' , st. 1.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
“Ye quenchless stars! so eloquently bright,
Untroubled sentries of the shadowy night.”
The starry Heavens, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
(zh-CN) 一样是月明，
一样是隔山灯火，
满天的星
只使人不见，
梦似的挂起。
"Do Not Throw Away" (《别丢掉》), translated by Michelle Yeh in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. 41
Variant translation:
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky besprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
Xu Yuanchong, Vanished Springs: The Life and Love of a Chinese Intellectual (Vantage Press, 1999), pp. 44–45
St. 1.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”
Fragment in Plutarch De facie in orbe lunae, 929b, as quoted in The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005), p. 23
Variant: Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Source: A Moveable Feast