On nights when we have clear skies, no matter where you are, we happy faces look to the stars–and the moon. Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island (1883) and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), wrote “The Moon” to speak to the foreboding nature of the moon, and the calmness that it can bring. Poetry lives in contrast, and the moon conveys this notion expertly.