But to return to Gray, Ode VI. "The Bard:"
"With haggard eyes the poet stood,
Loose his beard, and hoary hair
Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air."
Wakefield quotes Paradise Lost, lib. i. 535.:
"The imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd,
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."
Campbell, in The Pleasures of Hope, Part I., does borrow from Milton in the above passage:
"Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd;"