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

Soft and gracious Hesper in Heaven! thou throwest the silver spangles of thy rays upon our earthly foliage and gently openest our hearts to charms which are as tender as thine!

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

The epic opens with Columbus in prison; to him enters Hesper, an angel.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

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)