Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.
Thomas Campbell CLXXXVII. To the Evening StarG
Companion of retiring day,
Why at the closing gates of heaven,
Beloved Star, dost thou delay?
When soft the tear of twilight flows;
So due thy plighted love returns
To chambers brighter than the rose;
So kind a star thou seem’st to be,
Sure some enamour’d orb above
Descends and burns to meet with thee.
When all unheavenly passions fly,
Chased by the soul-subduing power
Of Love’s delicious witchery.
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay,
When Caroline herself is here!
Whose trees the sunward summit crown,
And wanton flowers, that well may court
An angel’s feet to tread them down:—
Thou star of evening’s purple dome,
That lead’st the nightingale abroad,
And guid’st the pilgrim to his home.
Embalms the soft exhaling dew,
Where dying winds a sigh bequeath
To kiss the cheek of rosy hue;—
Her silken tresses darkly flow
And fall upon her brow so fair,
Like shadows on the mountain snow.
In converse sweet to wander far—
O bring with thee my Caroline.
And thou shalt be my Ruling Star!