 | 1827 - 294 ページ
...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, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 ページ
...the wakeful mghtingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung: Silence wL pie Jd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, lillthe moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length; Apparent queen unveil'd her peer ess light, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 ページ
...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 retir'd to rest, Mind us oflike repose ; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive, and the timely... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 ページ
...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...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 ページ
...the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1991 - 356 ページ
...down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen,...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 - 1996 - 264 ページ
...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 - 1996 - 264 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 ページ
...descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,0 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair... | |
 | Linda Haddad - 2007 - 100 ページ
...kept shining and bright in my eyes, and the stars going round in my head." John Milton's "Now glowed the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that...rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, and o'er the dark her silver mantle threw" and "The quality of mercy is... | |
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Twilight gray 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... 
