STAR.
That full star that ushers in the even.
Sonnet CXXXII. SHAKESPEARE.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.
Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto III. SIR W. SCOTT.
And fast by, hanging in a golden chain
This pendent world, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
Paradise Lost, Bk. II. MILTON.
Devotion! daughter of astronomy!
An undevout astronomer is mad.
Night Thoughts, Night IX. DR. E. YOUNG.
There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And cast a gleam over this tufted grove.
Comus. MILTON.
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Evangeline, Pt. I. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen—
For what listen they?
A Prophecy. J. KEATS.
There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.
The Light of Stars. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day;
Light will repay
The wrongs of night;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Emblems, Bk. I. F. QUARLES.
At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminished heads.
Paradise Lost, Bk. IV. MILTON.
Nor sink those stars in empty night,—
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Issues of Life and Death. J. MONTGOMERY.