 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
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...~i~ """ '•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament 'With living sapphires :...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon , llising in clouded majesty , at length, Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...but" the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous 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 unveil'd her peerless HgUt, And o'er the dark... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...all hut the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; -Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvetl'd her peerless... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...what spright Of your /iftr.x you were beheld. That at every motion swelled. Ben J,Tivm. \ lespei us. that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon. Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerlcst light. In song he never had his peer,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 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, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale\ She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd\ Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus', that led The starry hosf , rode brightesf , till the moon', Rising in clouded majesty', at length', Apparent queen', unveil'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...niifhbiijjK: She all night long her amorous descant ;»"-'; Silence was pleased : now glowed the faw With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the JlW Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless lijilt And o'er lite... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded mnjosty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...thee welcome still. 266 She all night long her amorous descant sung, Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the inoon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
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