“Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright
On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.”

—  Charles Jefferys

Come, wander with me, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea." by Charles Jefferys?
Charles Jefferys photo
Charles Jefferys 8
British music publisher 1807–1865

Related quotes

James Hogg photo

“Where the pools are bright and deep
Where the gray trout lies asleep,
Up the river and o'er the lea
That's the way for Billy and me.”

James Hogg (1770–1835) British writer

"A Boy's Song" (1831), line 1; cited from Songs and Ballads by the Ettrick Shepherd (Glasgow: Blackie, 1852) p. 196.

John Townsend Trowbridge photo

“I keep some portion of my early gleam;
Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river,
It lights my life, a far illusive dream,
Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.”

John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) American author

Twoscore and Ten.

William Blake photo

“For washed in life's river,
My bright mane forever
Shall shine like the gold
As Iguard o'er the fold.”

William Blake Songs of Innocence

Night, st. 6
Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

John Muir photo

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains — mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

July 1890, pages 315-316
John of the Mountains, 1938

“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: Wolf False Memoir

Wang Wei photo

“I sit alone in the secluded bamboo grove
and play the zither and whistle along.
In the deep forest no one knows,
the bright moon comes to shine on me.”

Wang Wei (699–759) a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman

"Bamboo Grove" (竹里馆), as translated by Arthur Sze in The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (2013), p. 19
Variant translation:
Lying alone in this dark bamboo grove,
Playing on a flute, continually whistling,
In this dark wood where no one comes,
The bright moon comes to shine on me.
"In a Bamboo Grove" in The White Pony, ed. Robert Payne, p. 151

Julia Caroline Dorr photo

“What dost thou bring to me, O fair To-day,
That comest o'er the mountains with swift feet?”

Julia Caroline Dorr (1825–1913) American writer

To-Day; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

Charles Hamilton Aide photo

“Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the ländler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.”

Charles Hamilton Aide (1826–1906) French writer

The Danube River, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Haruki Murakami photo

“I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Thomas Campbell photo

“How glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town”

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer

Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>How glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town,
Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,
A thousand fathoms down! As fresh in yon horizon dark,
As young thy beauties seem,
As when the eagle from the ark
First sported in thy beam.For, faithful to its sacred page,
Heaven still rebuilds thy span,
Nor lets the type grow pale with age
That first spoke peace to man.</p

Related topics