HESPER! sweet Aphrodite's golden light! Hesper! bright ornament of swarthy Night, Inferior to the Moon's clear sheen, as far As thou outshinest every other star; Dear Hesper, hail! and give thy light to me, Leading the festive shepherd company. For her new course to-day began the Moon, And is already set—O much too soon! 'Tis not for impious theft abroad I stir, Nor to way-lay the nightly traveller: I love; and thou, bright star of love! shouldst lend The lover light—his helper and his friend. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REVELATION AT CAP FERRAT by CLARENCE MAJOR CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH SONG OF THE WAVE by ROBERT FROST EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY by JAMES GALVIN SPECIAL EFFECTS by JAMES GALVIN ESTRANGEMENT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON HEGIRA by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL - LECTURER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |