 | John Milton - 1925 - 588 pages
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...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,... | |
 | Denis Saurat - 1925 - 400 pages
...voluble earth By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend: Now...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... | |
 | 1925 - 806 pages
...and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rose brightest,... | |
 | 1926 - 524 pages
...and Twilight grey Had in her sober H very all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament \Vith living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 pages
...tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. John Milton 47 AN IDYLL1 The place is the Garden of Eden. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...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... | |
 | Anna Lloyd Braithwaite Thomas, Anna Braithwaite Thomas - 1927 - 200 pages
...and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous discant sung; Silence was pleased: Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 pages
...words,1 "Expectation stood in horror"; or again, where the exquisite picture of on-coming evening — Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...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... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - 1913 - 426 pages
...and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...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,... | |
 | English Association - 1911 - 192 pages
...generalizations always enfeeble description in poetry, how are we to explain the effect of this passage ? Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...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... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...volubil Earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...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... | |
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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,... 
