...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." . Milton certainly is the noblest and greatest poet that any age or country has ever produced. I do...

...sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry 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 threw. When Adam thus to Eve. " Fair consort, th« hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind...

...firmament With livid sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the intention is only, and in general, to awaken and cherish poetic tastes, a continuous reading,...

...the stars, one after another, seemed to open their bright eyes upon the quiet waters, and " The moon at length, apparent queen, Unveiled her peerless light, and o'er the dark Her silver mantle threw." All rebellious feelings were rebuked in Amy's heart, and a holy trust and a quiet submission had taken...

...rode brightest till the moort, Ji '' "(I 'W''' Rising in clouded majesty, at length, ,'v»,i) )y"!:io Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the intention is only, and in general, to awaken and cherish poetic tastes, a continuous reading,...

...firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The stirry host, rode brightest; till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length. Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton. THE evening primrose (GEnothera bidnnis) is so common a flower, as to need no description....

...without perhaps knowing in many cases the antiquity of the figure ! Compare Milton. " Until the moon, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." One of the predominant features of the most ancient poetry i* the• idea of kindred or relationship...

...the famous moonlight scene which occurs in the fourth book of Paradise Lost. Till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Now here the terms clouded majesty, peerless light, silver mantle, are utterly inadmissible into rhythmical...

...firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When...

...living sapphires ; f Hesperus that led -(-The starry host, | rode brightest, | till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, | at length Apparent queen | unveiled...light, And o'er the dark | her silver mantle threw." The caesural pause in anapaestic verse, falls appropriately near the middle of the line. But harmony...