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

He looked no further—a telegram was stuck up in front of the clock, and flaunted in his face: "Edmonstone, Iris Lodge, Teddington,—Ship Hesper signalled Start Point ten this morning.—Bone and Phillips."

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

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

Over all the quiet sea-shore Shadowing falls the hour of Hesper; Through the clouds the moon is breaking, And I hear the billows whisper.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

By the first of March Hesper was ready for the printer and I turned it over to Duneka.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin