Hesper

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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

Dick believed that he had seen this identical paragraph in the "Argus" of February 13th, the day on which the Hesper sailed from Hobson's Bay.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Hesper had not been happy with the thing she had come nearest having—her mother.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

Hesper, hes′pėr, Hesperus, hes′pėr-us, n. the Greek name for Venus as the evening-star.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various