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)

Barlow's "Hesper" even hints that a Columbus from New England may one day rediscover the Old World.

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

But as the Hesper drew towards the Channel he thought less and less of the life he had left behind, and more and more of the life before him.

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