Star-shower

I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown;

The next great star-shower from the Leonid swarm is expected before dawn on the morning of-November 17 or 18, 1999.

On the morning of November 14, 1867, a star-shower equal in magnitude to that of 1866 was observed in France and America, but was almost wholly invisible in Britain, on account of the cloudy state of the atmosphere.