...the variety of numbers, than that of Milton : " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had m her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied...to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale: She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased:...

...Milton's Paradise Lost, contrasts curiously with the homespun sentimentality of the boy Charlie Ivés: Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening...

...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing....

...surprize a Stranger much. (Kimber's note) 35. Paradise Lost, book 4, lines 598-609: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all...clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long...

...pleasing Silence? Figure 3.3 Text comparison for "Evening" Milton: [Ivés: Now came still Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk, all but the wakeful...

...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie Host,...

...with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She...

...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;...

...things ciaf: the lines comes from Book IV, 11. 598-9, of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The poem reads: Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Liverie all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these...

...echoes and revises the epithalamic procession in Paradise Lost that begins, "Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray / Had in her sober Livery all things clad" (4.598—9); and in its latent eroticism, it recalls the less sober figures of Collins' "Ode to Evening"...