 | 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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1832 - 260 pages
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her 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... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...the 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, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...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 host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...closing lines is Milton. First of all, the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With...led The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Social Science - 1991 - 356 pages
...under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen, unveil'd...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 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...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 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Kimber - British - 1998 - 146 pages
...these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament...led The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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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... 
