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Through dim cloud-vistas looking, I can see The new moon's crescent sailing Pallidly: And one star coldly shining Upon my misery.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

Pallidly the moon was shining On the dewy meadows nigh; On the silvery, silent rivers, On the mountains far and high On the ocean's star-lit waters, Where the winds a-weary die.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Pallidly the moon was shining On the dewy meadows nigh; On the silvery, silent rivers, On the mountains far and high,— On the ocean's star-lit waters, Where the winds a-weary die.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan

I view the evening bonfires of the sun    On hills where morning rains have hissed;    The eyeless countenance of the mist Pallidly rising when the summer droughts are done.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

Pallidly the moon slides down, Hour by hour slips; Ah, the deathless magic of Your lips!

From Cross Roads by Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)