 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 471840Full view - About this book
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1839 - 880 pages
...etill Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in lu r sober livery all tilings clad ; — — — now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising iu clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, uaveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs : Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising ia clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, • And o'er the dark her... | |
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...scarcely exceeded those -which the milder beauty of his bister has received. To the poet's eye ¡he too appears to ascend the heavens in regal majesty,...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The »tarry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1840 - 270 pages
...She all night long her ara'rous descant sung • "ilcnce was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament A'ilh living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded mnjesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, AIH! o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1843 - 222 pages
...nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous decant lung ; . „ b.lence was pUsXi Now giow'd the firm.^^ With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led •// The...moon, \ • Rising in clouded majesty, at length, i .,' Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, . '/ Ana o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sang ; Silence was plcas'd : , all were it woe and grief He might a while yet linger...descend into the pit ; Where Death, when he the morta nt length Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 328 pages
...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the liratamcnt With livid sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Bising in clouded majesty, at length i THB Original. MENTAL CULTURE. BY HB8. BL1ZABBTH H. M'COLLOH.... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 605 Rising in clouded majesty, at length I Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising iu clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light ; And o'er the dark her silver... | |
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