"Morning star" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nature's display. Fearing that his copper bugle would attract the lightning, he lowered it as far under the water as he could. All night he ran through that fearful storm, arriving at Cloverport very tired. He rested there several hours and ran to Owensboro. The mail boats, Idlewild and Morning Star, steamed up from Evansville to meet him, lashed together for the occasion, carrying a large crowd of people, and flying Boyton's colors, the Geneva Cross, which is the international life saving standard. Miss Maggie ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... is never-failing. They rise with the first streak of light; there are no sluggards among them. They are all musical, and sing as they go about their work; but their music pleases me best when they join in their morning hymn. When the morning star is growing pale, and rosy light tinges the edges of the soft clouds in the east, this choir of singers stop for a second, as if waiting, in silent reverence, for the glad light to appear; then, just as the first ray gilds the ...
— What the Animals Do and Say • Eliza Lee Follen
... bright Heaven's Morning Star, In whom all live and move and are, Thou Chiefest, altogether lovely, Beauty in ...
— Song-waves • Theodore H. Rand
... dew-drops on her lifted head; While on the grasses, white and far, The tents of fairy hosts were spread That, scared before the morning star, Had left their ...
— The Mistress of the Manse • J. G. Holland
... and the stars were still shining brightly, undimmed as yet by the streaks of dawn in the East, as I wended my way to the church. I was going to toll the bell, for our little daughter Laurie was dead. The soft morning star beamed down upon me as in pity; all was quiet, all looked calm, serene, and peaceful,—the silence only broken by the deep tolling of the bell. The little coffin had to be made in haste, and was only just ready in time, for the steamship ...
— Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians • Edward Francis Wilson
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