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

From those high towers this noble lord issúing Like radiant Hesper, when his golden hair In th' ocean billows he hath bathéd fair, Descended to the river's open viewing With a great train ensuing.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes 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

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 Cullum, Ridgwell

And, with all her eagerness, Hesper was not adventurous.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth