Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous... Daily readings for a year [ed.] by E. Spooner - Página 294por Elizabeth Spooner - 1880 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edmund Gosse - 2004 - 308 páginas
...things ciaf: the lines comes from Book IV, 11. 598-9, of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The poem reads: Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Liverie all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these... | |
| Christopher R. Miller - 2006 - 12 páginas
...echoes and revises the epithalamic procession in Paradise Lost that begins, "Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray / Had in her sober Livery all things clad" (4.598—9); and in its latent eroticism, it recalls the less sober figures of Collins' "Ode to Evening"... | |
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