Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | II. Light: Day: Night | | Evening in Paradise | | John Milton (1608–1674) |
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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; | 5 |
| She all night long her amorous descant sung. | |
| Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament | |
| With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led | |
| The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon | |
| Rising in clouded majesty, at length | 10 |
| Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, | |
| And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw. | | | | |
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