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

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 Harper, Various (magazine)

In Hesper I was concerned with a war, in which most of the action had taken place among the clouds, on the hilltops nearly two miles above sea-level.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

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

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