The dawn is lonely for the sun,
And chill and drear;
The one lone star is pale and wan,
As one in fear.
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Sirius appears, arid on the horizon black
Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
Victor Hugo—The Vanished City.
The morniDg stars sang together, and all the
sons of God shouted for joy.
Job. XXXVIII. 7.
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of
Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job. XXXVIII. 31.
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Job. XXXVIII. 32.
When sunset flows into golden glows,
And the breath of the night is new,
Love finds afar eve's eager star—
That is my thought of you.
Robert Underwood Johnson—Star Song.
Who falls for love of God shall rise a star.
Jonson—Underwoods. 32. To a friend.
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Judges. V. 20.
God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs
across the sky.
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.
Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a
Pearly Crown.
But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street,
Heaventown.
Joyce Kilmer—Main Street.
The stars, heav'n sentry, wink and seem to die.
Lee—Theodnsius. Probably inspired Campbell's lines.
| seealso = (See also Campbell, Habington, Hemans,
Montgomery, Norris)
Just above yon sandy bar,
As the day grows fainter and dimmer,
Lonely and lovely, a single star
Lights the air with a dusky glimmer.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Chrysaor. St. 1.
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of
heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Evangeline. Pt. I. St. 3.
| seealso = (See also De La Mare, Mom)
| topic = Stars
| page = 750
}}
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| text = <poem>The night is calm and cloudless,
And still as still can be,
And the stars come forth to listen
To the music of the sea.
They gather, and gather, and gather,
Until they crowd the sky,
And listen, in breathless silence,
To the solemn litany.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Christus. The Golden Legend.
Pt.V.
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.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Light of Stars. St. 2.
Stars of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps
Hide, hide your golden light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Spanish Student. Serenade.
A wise man,
Watching the stars pass across the sky,
Remarked :In the upper air the fireflies move more slowly.
Amy Lowell—Meditation.
Wide are the meadows of night
And daisies are shining there,
Tossing their lovely dews,
Lustrous and fair;
And through these sweet fields go,
' Wanderers amid the stars—
Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune,
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.
Walter De La Mare—The Wanderers.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Longfellow)
The star that bids the shepherd fold,
Now the top of heaven doth hold.
| author = Milton
| work = Cotoms. L. 93.
So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
| author = Milton
| work = Lycidas. L. 168.
Brightest seraph, tell
In which of all these shining orbs hath man
His fixed seat, or fixed seat hath none,
But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. III. L. 667.
At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminish 'H heads.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 34.
| seealso = (See also Pope)
Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length
Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 604.
The starry cope
Of heaven.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. W. L. 992.
- And made the stars,
And set them in the firmament of heav'n,
T' illuminate the earth, and rule the day
In their vicissitude, and rule the night.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. VII. L. 348.
