harvest-moon

And now she was looking up the lane, at the rise of the harvest-moon, in despair, as she said afterwards.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

I am to be walking by myself on deck, rather late of an August evening, watching and being watched by a full harvest-moon: something is to rise white on the surface of the sea, over which that moon mounts silent, and hangs glorious: the object glitters and sinks.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Many a harvest-moon since then has filled her yellow horn, and queenly Junes crowned with roses have paled before the sternness of Decembers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Reader! were you ever praised by a very handsome woman, whom you have loved all your life, when standing with her alone under a wide-spreading oak, in a noble park, with mountains bathed in the red and yellow of the sunset before you, and a broad harvest-moon rising above your heads?

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Again the silver harvest-moon shines down upon the silent city.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

The harvest-moon, bringer of hot days and "bammy" nights to glaze the corn, may be the admiration of many, but is not so to the boy.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

And how about that other stupendous fiction of the harvest-moon?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

The fields are now ripening, this being the harvest-moon.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Peeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon!

On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country 1927

I have heard that night is own sister to death; now, as the ultimate torn cloud passed seaward, and the new-washed harvest-moon broke forth in a red glory, and stars clustered about her like a swarm of golden bees, I thought this night was rather the parent of a new life.

The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918