Many passages connect the stars with sunrise or sunset:"The fair star that gems the glittering coronet of morn" "The stars of night grew pallid, and the beans of morn descended on the ocean-streams"? "The pale stars of the morn"; "The eastern star looks white"; "The point of one white star is quivering still deep in the orange light of widening morn, beyond the purple mountains"; "The morning star shines dead; "The morning-star beckons the sun from the Eoan wave"; "The lovely star, when morn has broke the roof of darkness, in the golden dawn half-hidden, and yet beautiful"; "Gazed like a star into the morning light";

"Twilight, ascending slowly from the east,

Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks

O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of Day;

Night followed, clad with stars,"

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"The wan stars came forth"; "The stars came thick over the

twilight sea"; "Where the evening star may walk along the

brink of the gloomy seas, liquid mists of splendor quiver";

2

Revolt of Islan, Canto iii, stanza 33.

3

Prometheus Unbound, Act ii.

4

The Cloud, Vol.iii.p.208.

5 Alastor, Vol.i.p.98.

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"Arise as dew from earth under the twilight stars"

young stars glance between the quick bats in their

dance";1 "Fair as star-beans among twilight trees"

"The star which pant ed

In evening for the Day, whose car has ro

Over the horizon's wave, with looks of 1

Smiled on it from the threshold of the n

We will let this speech of Earth conclude our Shelley's descriptions of night, in which the star

"The dew-nists of my sunless sleep shall floa
Under the stars like balm; night-faded flower
Shall suck unwithering hues in their repose;
And men and beasts in happy dreams shall gath
Strength for the coming day, and all its joy.

1 Epipsychidion, Vol.iii.p.02.

2 The Zucca, Vol.iii.p.404.

3

Prometheus Unbound, Act iii. scene 3.

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CHAPTER V.

CONCLUSION,

When we have gone thus far in our study of the night

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in Byron, Keats, and Shelley, there still remain many passages descriptive of the night, in their poems. Some of the more characteristic traits of each, in his descriptions of night, may be noticed here, and illustrated by further quo

tations.

Byron makes more frequent mention of indoor night-scenes than do the others. These passages are seldom among his finest,-frequently showing us the man and his tastes rather than the poet and his aspirations. Frequently they occur in connection with scenes of revelry or in humorous passages, and both revelry and humor are almost entirely lacking in the night scenes of Keats and Shelley, unless we include under

the term revelry some imaginative descriptions in which mythical or spiritual or fairy beings are the actors.

1 See Appendix.