“I shine afar, till men may not divine
Whether it is the stars or the beloved
They follow with wrapt spirit.”

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 275

Source: Thebaid, Book XII, Line 816 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

from The Lord's Prayer

By Still Waters (1906)

Cavalry Journal (September 1933)

Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>The pulse of war and passion of wonder,
The heavens that murmur, the sounds that shine,
The stars that sing and the loves that thunder,
The music burning at heart like wine,
An armed archangel whose hands raise up
All senses mixed in the spirit's cup
Till flesh and spirit are molten in sunder —
These things are over, and no more mine. These were a part of the playing I heard
Once, ere my love and my heart were at strife;
Love that sings and hath wings as a bird,
Balm of the wound and heft of the knife.
Fairer than earth is the sea, and sleep
Than overwatching of eyes that weep,
Now time has done with his one sweet word,
The wine and leaven of lovely life.</p

Waring, ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)

Translated by Arthur Waley
"Said to be [Izumi Shikibu's] death-verse; the moon may refer to Buddha's teachings." Anthology Of Japanese Literature (1955) by Donald Keene, p. 92