What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.
The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light
Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens,
and go.
Bryant—Hymn to the North Star.
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| text = When stars are in the quiet skies,
Then most I pine for thee;
Bend on me then thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
Bulwer-Lytton—When Stars are in the Quiet
Skies.
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| text = The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the
appearance of care is highly contrary to- our
ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in
such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible
on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This
gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.
Burke—On the Sublime and the Beautiful.
STABS
A grisly meteor on his face.
Butler—Cobbler and Vicar of Bray.
This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. 247.
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| text = <poem>Cry out upon the stars for doing
IU offices, to cross their wooing.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 17.
Like the lost pleiad seen no more below.
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And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.
Campbell—The Soldier's Dream.
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Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.
Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I.
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| text = <poem>In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
That gems the starry girdle of the year,
Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. II. L. 194.
Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.
Lydia Maria Child. Adapted from M'Donald Clark. Appeared thus in his obituary
notice.
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Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: cceli scrutantur plagas.
No one sees what is before his feet: we all
gaze at the stars.
Cicero—De Dwinatione. II. 13.
While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.
M'Donald Clark—Death in Disguise. L.
227.
Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.
M'Donald Clark—Death in Disguise. L.
227. As it appeared in Boston Ed. 1833.
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| text = <poem>Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?
Coleridge—Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
Coleridge—Dines on an Autumnal Evening.
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| text = <poem>All for Love, or the Lost Pleiad.
Stirling Coyne. Title of play. Produced
in London, Jan. 16, 1838.
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
Samuel Danieij—History of the Civil War.
Bk. VI. St. 104.
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree
All out of reach.
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. II.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Emerson—Society and Solitude. Civilization.
The starres, bright sentinels of the skies.
Wm. Hablntgton—Dialogue between Night and
Araphil. L. 3.
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| text = <poem>Why, who shall talk of shrines, of sceptres riven?
It is too sad to think on what we are, /
When from its height afar /
A world sinks thus; and yon majestic Heaven
Shines not the less for that one vanish'd star!
Felicia D. Hemans—The Lost Pleiad.
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| text = <poem>The starres of the night
Will lend thee their light,
Like tapers cleare without number.
| author = Herrick
| work = The Night Piece.
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| num = | text = <poem>Micat inter omnes
Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores. And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. Horace—Carmina. I. 12. 47.
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