5 Metaphors for moonlight

It seemed to him the moonlight was not common moonlight, nor the night a common night, and for awhile he lay quite drowsily, with this odd persuasion in his mind.

Ah! [And the forest lies as if under a spell; the moonlight is softer, the tender green fire of the glow-worm shines blinking among the moss; on all sides, between the tree-boles creep, shadow-like, the charmed beasts; eyes shine, moist muzzles point toward the source of the music.

As she came towards them, the moonlight full on her dark, proud, perfect face, she might have been the youthful Diana.

V. Enough, that at last they came to the Isle, Where moonlight and fragrance were rivals the while.

The bright moonlight which figures in some of these were-wolf stories is perhaps not a mere embellishment of the tale but has its own significance; for in some places it is believed that the transformation of were-wolves into their bestial shape takes place particularly at full moon.

5 Metaphors for  moonlight