Plato’s epigrams on Aster and Agathon are well known. The two first-quoted make a play of course on the name Aster (star).
To Aster:
“Thou wert the morning star among the living,
Ere thy fair light had fled;
Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendour to the dead.”
(Shelley.)
To the same:
“Thou at the stars dost gaze, who art my star—O would that I were