“One naked star has waded through
The purple shadows of the night,
And faltering as falls the dew
It drips its misty light.”
The Beetle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American poet from Indianapolis 1849–1916Related quotes

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”

When Twilight Dews.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Now dews precipitate the night,
And setting stars to rest invite.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39

"City Vignettes, I: Dawn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
Second chorus, lines 1-12.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Context: Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/wynkenblynkenandnod.html, st. 1
Love Songs of Childhood (1894)