Meanings
- nonce worduncountableThe atmosphere of a honeymoon.
When her husband joins her / for breakfast, she smiles / the guilty smile of the unfaithful. / Yet does she notice / that the honeymoonlight / has left a few blonde hairs / clinging to his shoulder?
1992, Robert Kendall, A Wandering City: Poems, page 481 more example
Dancing in the honeymoonlight which bathes the poem, the Owl and the Pussy-cat more wistfully, but less pessimistically, get on terms with another Victorian classic, Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach'. Arnold's is also a seaside honeymoon poem, his newlyweds watch 'ignorant armies clash by night' instead of dancing by the light of the moon.
2005, Edward Lear, Peter Swaab, Over the land and over the sea
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