Hesper
Americannoun
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So golden-crownèd shines she gloriously, And with that softest dream of blood she glows: Mild as an evening heaven round Hesper bright!
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2012
A Phosphor ’mongst the living late wert thou, But shin’st, among the dead, a Hesper now.
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas
But as Rosebud showed no sign of continuing the conversation he, too, rose in silence, and went over to Hesper and hitched her to the buckboard.
From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell
Even at home, "Hesper" and "The Mount of Vision" soon faded out of sight.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
Clotilda, the Hesper of those two fair evenings, was like the Hesperus in the sky, not to be seen over St. Luna.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
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