Meaning of moonward | Babel Free

Definitions

Toward the moon.

not-comparable

Examples

“1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272, An old man with a steady look⟳ sublime, That stops his earthly task to watch⟳ the skies; But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;— Yet having moonward turn’d his face⟳ by chance, Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,”

“Down the hill toward Malory he sauntered, looking sometimes moonward, sometimes on the dark woods, and feeling as five weeks since he could not have⟳ believed himself capable of feeling, and so he arrived at the very gate of Malory.”

“The moon rode high in the blue eternity; it was a very triumph of glorious night; the river ran babble-murmuring in deep soft syllables; the fountain kept rushing moonward, and blossoming momently to a great silvery flower, whose petals were for ever falling like⟳ snow⟳, but with a continuous musical clash, into the bed of its exhaustion beneath […]”

“An opal spume obscures the bay Where the distracted breakers crowd; The very dunes are whirled away, Spun moonward in a flamelike cloud.”

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