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Harvest moon   /hˈɑrvəst mun/   Listen
Harvest moon

noun
1.
The full moon nearest the September equinox.





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"Harvest moon" Quotes from Famous Books



... though the large hands of revenge Shall get my throat at last—shall get it soon, If the joy that they are lifted to avenge Have risen red on my night as a harvest moon, Which even Death can only put out for me, And death I ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various
... the harvest moon, Between the shadow of the mows, Looked on them through the great elm-boughs! On Mabel's curls of golden hair, On Esek's shaggy strength it fell; And the wind whispered, ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... marched in silence for a time, thinking about this fearful adventure of the Norwegian king. It was night, and the harvest moon was lighting up the long lines of men, with the king and his nobles on their tired horses at the head; the sleeping cottages, and the yellow shocks of corn standing ready cut in the fields on either side ...
— Stories from English History • Hilda T. Skae
... has the neatest hand for this kind of thing; she permits no loose ends to the series of love-knots that she ties so amusingly. So the finish of the comedy deserves the epithet "engaging" in more senses than one: with a Jack to every Jill, and the harvest moon (as promised in the cover picture) beaming upon all, the couples paired off to everyone's entire satisfaction. A tale that will be safe for a succes fou with all who have worn the smock and the green armlet; while I can well imagine ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919 • Various


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