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Hesper

[hes-per] / ˈhɛs pər /
NOUN
evening star
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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

The imagination pictured it as lying under the far distant Hesper, or evening star, and hence it was called Hesperia: Graïo cognomine dicta.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

So shall the nightingale rejoice thy woods, And Hesper early light his dewy star; And oft at eventide Beneath the rising moon.

From A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers by Various

Rosebud, seated in a buckboard, and driving the old farm mare, Hesper, appeared on the opposite side of the slough.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Ridgwell Cullum

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 Thomas Stanley


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