Stars. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Stars


The eternal jewels of the short-lived night. Mary Mapes Dodge.—The Stars.	1
They wait all day unseen by us, unfelt; Patient they bide behind the day’s full glare; And we who watched the dawn when they were there, Thought we had seen them in the daylight melt, While the slow sun upon the earth-line knelt. Mary Mapes Dodge.—The Stars.	2
The radiant stars Still singing as they shine, Unheard through earth’s imprisoning bars, Have voices sweet. Holmes.—After a Lecture on Moore.	3
The curtain of the dark Is pierced by many a rent: Out of the star-wells, spark on spark Trickles through night’s torn tent. Lucy Larcom.—The Curtain of the Dark.	4
The stars, the thoughts of God in the Heavens. Longfellow.—Evangeline, Book III. Line 54.	5
The twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly and as free; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, The thousand on the sea. For every wave, with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. Amelia B. Welby.—Twilight at Sea. A Fragment.	6