 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
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - English language - 1874 - 166 pages
...wakeful nightingale; 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 moon, Hising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; 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 moon, Eising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Shaktspeart. Now glow'd the firmament With livid h YaLa!n T S7 ?t , k x { U M (' ] A+ 9 S 9?4 òý cloudy majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 480 pages
...attractive luster, ascended along his ethereal course to the zenith ; and at evening, ... " Glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...the wakeful nightingale ; She all night her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pltas'd : 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... | |
 | Margaret Wolfe Hungerford - 1879 - 322 pages
...Cyril — the calm beauty VOL. II. 0 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... | |
 | Duchess - 1879 - 384 pages
...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, Kising in clouded majesty, at length — Apparent queen ! — unveiled her peerless light, And o'er... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased : now glowed orn ? Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall...torn ! Say, rushed the bold eagle exultingly forth Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 284 pages
...wakeful nightingale : 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 moon, Bising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...her placid eye. Since first to light this wayward earih She walk'd in tranquil beauty forth. Donne. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon Unlink in clouded majesty, at length. Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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