Hamyda's daughter then might be compared Unto the morning-star or a tall palm, Alone, erect among the other trees.

Her litter is adorned with odd designs, Shining as brilliant as the morning-star, And like the rainbow glowing 'midst the clouds, All hung with silk and figured damask-cloth.

O glorious Morning-Star!

Indeed, it is the only time That with thy glory doth best chime: All now are stirring; every field Full hymns doth yield; The whole creation shakes off night, And for thy shadow looks the light; Stars now vanish without number; Sleepy planets set and slumber; The pursy clouds disband and scatter; All expect some sudden matter; Not one beam triumphs, but, from far, That morning-star.

Companion of the morning-star at dawn, Thyself earth's rosy star, and of the dawn Co-herald!

Fish of all kinds we had here in plenty, and the remainder of the water which we brought with us from the Morning-star.

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?

O, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky, or when they sink, Companion of the morning-star at dawn, Thyself earth's rosy star, and of the dawn Co-heraldwake!

I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy."

She was a very lily of the field, and a rose of the garden, and a morning-star; in short, so beautiful that the like had never been seen.

For the Shaker of Earth who inhabiteth Onchestos and the Bridge between seas that lieth before the valley of Corinth, now giveth to the house this hymn of wonder, and leadeth up out of her bed the ancient glory of the famous deeds thereof: for she was fallen on sleep; but she awaketh and her body shineth preeminent, as among stars the Morning-star.

"] [Footnote 2: That is, Dilbat, "the prophet," or Venus, the morning-star.]

The very river seems glad, and tosses its shaggy waves like a faithful dog; and over yonder in Sidon, where the sun is building a shrine of gold and pearl, Esther, sleepless too, all night, waits at a window like the morning-star.

My youth is past!this morn I stand, With manhood's signet of command, Firm-planted on life's middle-land! Behind, the scene recedes afar, Where cloudy mists and vapors mar The lustre of my morning-star.

Oh, I remember: the scroll of song whereon were written the accents of the joyed morning-stars, when they grew jubilant that earth stood create, was let fall by an angel upon Afric's soil.

And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning-star; While throng'd the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips,"The foe!

It is this in his work which carries us on toward the next age, and justifies our calling Luca "the morning-star of Michelangelo.

Fame runs before him as the morning-star, And shouts of joy salute him from afar: Each house receives him as a guardian god, And consecrates the place of his abode.

Their natures met like night and morn What time the morning-star is born.

If the hour of the creation of the world was great and illustrious, that hour when, from the dark and formless mass, this fair system of nature arose at the divine command, when "the morning-stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy," no less illustrious is the hour of the restoration of the world; the hour when, from condemnation and misery, it emerged into happiness and peace.

"For thee I am ready to die, my morning-star: to thee I give my soulnot only life, my beloved!"

An elder race possessed your land Long ago, and a false faith lingered still, As shades do, though the morning-star be out.

If I were Lord of Tartary, I'd wear a robe of beads, White, and gold, and green they'd be And clustered thick as seeds; And ere should wane the morning-star, I'd don my robe and scimitar, And zebras seven should draw my car Through Tartary's dark glades.

The beetle, in his eyes, becomes a gross, hard-headed boor, carrying his sacks of blossom-meal, and drinking his mug of XX morning-dew; the stork parades about to show his red stockings; the spider is at once machinist and civil engineer; and even the sun, moon, and morning-star are not secure from the poet's familiarities.

The sun had not yet risen, but the eastern heavens were aglare with yellow light, even up to the morning-star, which, although "paling its ineffectual fires," still maintained its position as a glittering outpost between the contending powers of night and day.