Moonlight

"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!"
Said Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.

-- Eugene Field, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Puzzle Illustration: photo and copyright by Manu M, published on www.sxc.hu

The Birch Wood

I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
A white melody in the silence,
I have seen a quarrel of the pines.
At nightfall
The little grasses have rushed by me
With the wind men.

-- Stephen Crane

Illustration: The Birch Wood, Gustav Klimt, oil on canvas, 1903

Fields of Lavender

“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows…”

-- William Cullen Bryant

Seaside

She steals to the window, and looks at the sand,
And over the sand at the sea;
And her eyes are set in a stare;
And anon there breaks a sigh,
And anon there drops a tear,
From a sorrow-clouded eye,
And a heart sorrow-laden,
A long, long sigh;
For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden,
And the gleam of her golden hair.

-- The Forsaken Merman, Matthew Arnold

Ballooning

The first hot air balloon ride took place on September 19, 1783 on the 'Aerostat Reveillon', and lasted 15 minutes. The passengers were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.

Benjamin Bunny and the Cat

"She sat there for five hours."

Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Pirates!

...in him we have a real, ranting, raging, roaring pirate per se—one who really did bury treasure, who made more than one captain walk the plank, and who committed more private murders than he could number on the fingers of both hands...

--Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, 1921