Motif
Moon as witness to future absence
moon_as_witness_to_future_absence
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Celestial and Cosmic Signs. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4988-5043 confidence: medium
Variant stanzas XCIX-C address Love, mention conspiring with Fate, and describe the rising moon looking for the speaker and sweetheart through a quivering plane, later looking among the leaves for one of them in vain.
The moon is personified as looking for the pair now and later looking for one of them in vain.
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