"but the goddess drifted through like a breath of fresh air,
rushed to the girl's bed and hovering close she spoke,
in face and form like the shipman dymas' daughter,
a girl the princess' age, and dearest to her heart."
who is the goddess mentioned in this passage?

Athena.

Explanation:

The excerpt is taken from the famous classical Greek epic poem "Odyssey" by Homer. This is the statement of Athena to Nausicaa in a dream. Athena is the goddess who is the daughter of Zeus(the god of the sky, lightning, and thunder). She is the goddess of wisdom, justice, and warfare and this quote symbolizes the divine intervention in the matter. Thus, according to the question, the goddess mentioned in the excerpt is Athena.

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .