The moon is called the Harvest Moon when it is full and
closest to the autumn equinox. The moon will be bright and full for several
nights at the end of September. In northern states, the Harvest moon continues
to shine from dusk until dawn through early October.
As a tribute to this year's Harvest Moon, check out this poem, "The Harvest Moon" by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
A touch of cold
in the Autumn night
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,
With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!
All things are symbols: the external shows
Of Nature have their image in the mind,
As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;
The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
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