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Hesperus : father of the Hesperides (nymphs). In a garden on the enchanted island in the western sea, he guards a tree which bears golden apples, &, as the most brilliant star, leads the other stars out into the sky (see Venus).

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... springs will fail, the waters cease to flow. Awake, 0 men, and find the Child Divine." - Thus speaks her ardent love to everyone. (Hesperus enters from the opposite side) 0 Hesperus, Star of the Evening, friend, I'm glad you've come. Hesperus Just done my usual round. Aurora Tell us, dear friend, saw you our sweet Demeter This evening? Ay, and countless evenings... deep-hid caverns lights a flame. And oft she cries, "Where have you buried her? 0 where have you concealed my Child Divine?" Hesperus - But hardly one gives ear. Men know her not. Aurora At night-fall does she rest? Where does she sleep? Hesperus I know not. But quite oft when I come back A little later from my evening stroll, And night's set in, and all life seems... What divine compassion! Page 44 Hesperus Most strange and true. I do not think she sleeps, And yet the human load she fully bears, In a human body, even as mortals do. She's gone for some deep purpose, that is sure. Aurora Come, let us go in now. My heart is full. The Nymphs open the gates. Aurora and Hesperus enter. Curtain ...

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... house-top of Priam, Clang of the arms of the Greeks was in Troya, and thwarting the clangour Voices were crying and calling me over the violent Ocean Borne by the winds of the West from a land where Hesperus harbours." Brooding they ceased, for their thoughts grew heavy upon them and voiceless. Then, in a farewell brief and unthought and unconscious of meaning, Parting they turned to their tasks and ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Collected Poems
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... house-top of Priam, Clang of the arms of the Greeks was in Troya, and thwarting the clangour Voices were crying and calling me over the violent Ocean Borne by the winds of the West from a land where Hesperus harbours." Brooding they ceased, for their thoughts grew heavy upon them and voiceless. Page 395 Then, in a farewell brief and unthought and unconscious of meaning, Parting they turned ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   The Future Poetry
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... Clara Vere de Vere, I hardly know what I must say. But I'm to be Queen of the May, Mother, I'm to be Queen of the May." An example of (viii) above: "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea; The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, A frozen corpse was he." (All the four examples cited above are from Prof. Leacock's collection.) ...

... hidden circle-,. And now what we see is the last whirlings of the mind moon, pale and languourous in a vast and bewildering sky because she has seen, silently announced by a ray of the star of hope, Hesperus, the approach of her Lord, because she has heard a far-off hint of the footfalls of His coming. Though she knows it is her Lord who approaches, yet is she shy of meeting Him in her borrowed garments ...

Amrita   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Old Long Since
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... hidden circle-,. And now what we see is the last whirlings of the mind moon, pale and languourous in a vast and bewildering sky because she has seen, silently announced by a ray of the star of hope, Hesperus, the approach of her Lord, because she has heard a far-off hint of the footfalls of His coming. Though she knows it is her Lord who approaches, yet is she shy of meeting Him in her borrowed garments ...

... hidden circle-,. And now what we see is the last whirlings of the mind moon, pale and languourous in a vast and bewildering sky because she has seen, silently announced by a ray of the star of hope, Hesperus, the approach of her Lord, because she has heard a far-off hint of the footfalls of His coming. Though she knows it is her Lord who approaches, yet is she shy of meeting Him in her borrowed garments ...

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