 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* 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... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were slunk, all but 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... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...bird. Those to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk: 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 brightest, 'till... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Wore 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1824 - 370 pages
...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 pleased; now glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, 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 ;... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...600 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 pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led COS The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...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 pleased : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
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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 pleased : now... 
