 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
 | John Milton - Fore-edge painting - 1881 - 528 pages
...wakeful nightingale, She all niKht long her amorous deseant sung; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | 1881 - 410 pages
...wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was p'eased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Eising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pages
...worship. In our old poets' writings we have many allusions to the influences of the stars. " Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Riding in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | John Milton - 1883 - 68 pages
...descant2 sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament* With living sapphires ;4 Hesperus8 that led The starry host rode brightest, till the...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen6 unveil'd her peerless7 light, • And o'er the dark her silver mantle5 threw. When Adam thus... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Buddha (The concept) - 1884 - 252 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Eising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Buddha (The concept) - 1884 - 204 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now gloVd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Bising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 240 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous ' descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living * sapphires :...till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length 4 Apparent queen, unveil'd her * peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Paradise... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. 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 !) unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Duchess - 1886 - 440 pages
...silent ; so is Cyril — the calm beauty of the heavens above them rendering their lips mute. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus that...led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Eising in clouded majesty, at length — Apparent queen ! — unveiled her peerless light, And o'er... | |
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