Were slunk, all but 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 brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists - Página 80por E. B. Greenshields - 1906 - 229 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Duchess - 1886 - 440 páginas
...rode brightest ; till the moon, Eising in clouded majesty, at length — Apparent queen ! — unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The night is very calm, and rich in stars ; brilliant almost as garish day, but bright with that tender,... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 páginas
...starry host, rode brightest, till the Hoon, Eising in cloudy majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The accumulated circumstances of autumnal decay are given in Thomson thus :— Till choked, and matted... | |
| John Wilson - 1891 - 592 páginas
...glowM the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest—till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." 25 i XXIII. IN WHICH, AFTER THE SHEPHERD HAS APPEARED SUCCESSIVELY AS PAN, AS HERCULES, AND THE APOLLO... | |
| 1892 - 384 páginas
...when her path is through dark masses or patches of clouds — The moon, Rising in clouded mnjesty, at length, Apparent queen ! unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Still more so, perhaps, in her virgin crescent. So the Church of Christ, faithfully reflecting to a... | |
| Calendar - 1893 - 414 páginas
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. From Paradise Lost. AT His birth a star Unseen before in heav'n, proclaims Him come ; And guides the... | |
| 1895 - 768 páginas
...her placid eye, Since first to light this wayward earth She walk'd in tranquil beauty forth. .Bonne. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Jfilton,PLiv.605. The queen of night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land, And... | |
| Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1895 - 398 páginas
...after 360 Ube 1nlanb Sea. "the moon. Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." The following morning we cast anchor in the land-locked harbor of Kobe, the seaport of Osaka. It was crowded... | |
| Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1895 - 406 páginas
...remained on deck long after "the raoon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." The following morning we cast anchor in the land-locked harbor of Kobe, the seaport of Osaka. It was crowded... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 páginas
...still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. EVE'S CONJUGAL LOVE. MY author and disposer, what thou bid'st, Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...heav'n, With borrow'd light her countenance triform Hence fills, and empties, to enlighten th' earth. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. What if that light To the terrestrial moon be as a star, Enlight'nmg her by day, as she by... | |
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