John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2575 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2575 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany’d; 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 descant sung; Silence was pleas’d. Now glow’d the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil’d her peerless light, And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 598. |