From A Dream Quest by Anonymous, 1898.

Revolutions in art, commerce, politics, science, and religion all form a star.  From The Century of Sir Thomas More by Benjamin Orange Flower, 1896.

Einstein said that God doesn't play dice, but here's evidence that God plays Tic Tac Toe, from Au Pays de Notre-Seigneur by A. Vannesson, 1890.

Here's a precursor to Moby's song "We are All Made of Stars," from Là-Bas et Ailleurs, 1890.

"The giant of the western star" (1800).

"And the star of peace return," from The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.

Talk about cycling under the stars.  From The Adventures of Six Young Men in the Wilds of Maine and Canada by Charles Asbury Stephens, 1884.

Did you know that the night sky features both a chair and the Platonic ideal of a chair?  Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

From an 1899 advertisement.

Watching the star of her destiny, from The Poor Girl by Pierce Egan the Younger, 1890.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

From Songs of the Immortals, illustrated by Haldane Macfall, c. 1920.  (In honor of "Floating Head Friday.")

"The [threefold] rays of the bright polar star" (from Lachin y Gair by Lord Byron).