 Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...  The Republic - Page 1251851Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1832 - 260 pages
...living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver-mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale: She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark tier silver... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 746 pages
...living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust Turns from its bottom the discoloured... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that...starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her Silver... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Social Science - 1991 - 356 pages
...to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen, unveil'd her peerless...light. And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
 | Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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