Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Hesperus
Oh, Hesperus! thou bringest all good things—
Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer———
Whate’er our household gods, protect of dear,
Are gather’d round us by thy look of rest;
Thou bring’st the child, too, to the mother’s breast.
Byron.—Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 107.