Old Yellow Moon: January 2015

Sunday, 25 January 2015

Moonrise

by David Davies - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne - Purchased, 1895
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

The waning moon

And like a dying lady, lean and pale,

Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,

Out of her chamber, led by the insane

And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,

The moon arose up in the murky East,

A white and shapeless mass.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Saturday, 3 January 2015

I saw a goat one frosty morn
With the moon upon his horn,
With a star upon his tail,
With a bird upon his back,
With a flower upon his nose,
With his feet upon a rock,
With his eyes upon the ground,
With the frost upon his coat,
Good morning, well connected goat!

by Michael Leunig