Chiefly poet. A ray of starlight.
a. 1425. Cursor M., 11435 (Trin.). Þei followed on þe sterre beme [earlier texts o þis stern þe leme] Til þei coom to Ierusalem.
1700. Blackmore, Job, 11. Shut every Starbeam out from mortals sight.
1794. Coleridge, Monody on Death of Chatterton, 120. Like star-beam on the slow sequester’d tide Lone-glittering.
1817. Byron, Manfred, I. i. 57. On a star-beam I have ridden.
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., i. 11. The immeasurable difference between the star-beam and the noon-tide splendour.
1884. Browning, Ferishtah’s Fancies, 87. How twinks thine eye, my Love, Blue as yon star-beam.
