| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | III. The Star | | By Mrs. Elizabeth Jesup Eames (1813–1856) |
| | Night-Scenes
THERE is a star—Eve’s fairest and her first— | |
| That with unaltered beauty ever shineth: | |
| What visions of the heart its light once nursed! | |
| Ah! Hope’s fair hand no more her rose-wreath twineth! | |
| Beneath thy silvery rays, O peerless Star, | 5 |
| The beautiful floats dimly and afar. | |
| The fair ideal wrought of the poet’s dreaming | |
| Hath left me with an ever-pining heart: | |
| No more my fancy, with bright visions teeming, | |
| Brings to these idle lines the inspiréd art, | 10 |
| O Angel of my youth! return once more, | |
| And ’neath this star, which is to me a shrine, | |
| The enchanted lamp of poesy restore, | |
| And fill my lone heart with its light divine! | | | | |
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