Afar Quote by Bryan Procter

The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring…

— D. H. Lawrence

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

— Sappho

The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;…

— William C. Bryant

Shes close to the moon next to the sun call her a star because shes as bright as they come

— Jervauhni

“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament: Her eyes…

— William Wordsworth

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudness climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…

— Anonymous

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…

— Lord Byron

“The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.…

— Charlotte Brontë

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

— Edmund Spenser

The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater