Climbing on the Moon

There were nights when the Moon was full and very, very low, and the tide was so high that the Moon missed a ducking in the sea by a hair's-breadth; well, let's say a few yards anyway. Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up.

-Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics, 3.

Moonbeams

Moonlight be a friend tonight
We're all wrecked up on these dreams
Holding on a bit too tight
I've got splinters from these moonbeams
If it seems we're falling down
If it seems we're falling through
Darlin' you know that is nothing
Darlin' you know that is nothing new

-Bill Mallonee, "You Know That (is Nothing New)"

Goodnight Moon #7

What do you want, Mary? What do you want? You–you want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.

-Jimmy Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life

Goodnight Moon #6

The moon belongs to everyone,
The best things in life are free.
The stars belong to everyone,
They gleam there for you and me.

-Buddy De Sylia and Lew Brown

Goodnight Moon #5

Honorable Moon, I look to you,
Honorable Moon, as lovers do.

-Ira Gershwin

Goodnight Moon #4

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silvery shoon.

-Walter De La Mare

Goodnight Moon #3

Your silvery beams
Will bring love dreams,
We'll be cuddling soon,
By the light of the silvery moon.

-Edward Madden

Goodnight Moon #2

Night and Day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

-Cole Porter

Goodnight Moon #1

There's a long, long trail awinding into the land of my dreams,
Where the nightingales are singing and a white moon beams.

-Stoddard King