Come like a light in the white mackerel sky, come like a daytime comet with a long unnebulous train of words, Bismarck from Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying.

-Bishop, Elizabeth
  'Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore'.

A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears.

-Makin, Bathsua   b. c.1600
  An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners,  Art and Tongues, With  An  Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And hewhistled, andshouted, and called thembyname; 'Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!'

-Moore, Clement
  The Night Before Christmas.