Crescent

A  shape (/ˈkrɛsənt/,  also  {/ˈkrɛzənt/ is a symbol or emblem used to represent the  in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.

Quotes

 * O Nanna, your crescent moon is called "the crescent moon of the seventh day".
 * Anonymous, A hymn to Nanna (Nanna E), late, at.


 * Hail, pallid crescent, hail! Let me look on thee where thou sitt'st for aye Like memory—ghastly in the glare of day, But in the evening, light.
 * Dinah Craik, The Moon in the Morning.


 * The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows, The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her, Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer Unto the harvest of the eternal summer, Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.
 * Victor Hugo, Boaz Asleep.


 * You brighten the night sky in the broad firmament, and illuminate the darkness. The Anuna gods stand by with prayers and supplications at your rising. The sweet sight of your resplendent crescent, full of loveliness, brings joy to the great lady of the Ki-ur, mother Ninlil.
 * Ishme-Dagan in a tablet (𒁾) to Nanna, Text online at, early.


 * Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full.
 * Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory, 1889, , p. 7


 * I was dumbfounded by truth you cut through lies [...] I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon
 * Mike Scott, ' from the album ', 1985.


 * The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps—does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
 * Rabindranath Tagore, , 61, 1912.