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Updated: May 9, 2025
"It is a wonderful gift," said Lincoln, as he listened to it, his eyes filled with tears, "to be able to stir men like that." "The Skeleton in Armor," "A Ballad of the French Fleet," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," are ballads that stir men still.
Pythagoras is said to have been the first to identify Hesperus with Phosphor, as the "Silver planet both of eve and morn," and by Plato the same fact is recognized. The other planets, all of which had, according to him, been originally named in Egypt and Syria, have each its descriptive title in his nomenclature.
The wine animated Glyndon, whose unequal spirits were at times high and brilliant as those of a school-boy released; and the laughter of the Northern tourists sounded oft and merrily along the melancholy domains of buried cities. Hesperus had lighted his lamp amidst the rosy skies as they arrived at Resina. Here they quitted their horses and took mules and a guide.
The wine animated Glyndon, whose unequal spirits were at times high and brilliant as those of a school-boy released; and the laughter of the Northern tourists sounded oft and merrily along the melancholy domains of buried cities. Hesperus had lighted his lamp amidst the rosy skies as they arrived at Resina. Here they quitted their horses and took mules and a guide.
Hesperus, golden lamp of the lovely daughter of the foam, dear Hesperus, sacred jewel of the deep blue night, dimmer as much than the moon, as thou art among the stars pre-eminent, hail, friend, and as I lead the revel to the shepherd's hut, in place of the moonlight lend me thine, for to-day the moon began her course, and too early she sank.
Milton, in his "Comus," makes the Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus and nieces of Atlas: "... amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." The poets, led by the analogy of the lovely appearance of the western sky at sunset, viewed the west as a region of brightness and glory.
And that great actor, with all his good intentions could think of nothing more fitting than to stand up before them and begin to recite, in a sad, elocutionary tone, Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus!" He went on, and his voice gained power. He had come to the third stanza, or the fourth, maybe, when a command rang out through the ward.
He and Goethe concluded that "Hesperus" was worth liking, though it was a great pity the author had not better taste; he ought to come up and live with them, in an aesthetic atmosphere, where he could find and admire his superiors, and have his great crude gems ground down to brilliant facets. Schiller said it was the book of a lonely and isolated man. It was, indeed.
He glared at it suspiciously. "Now, William dear," continued his mother, "begin again and no one shall interrupt you." William again went through the preliminaries of coughing and clearing his throat. "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry seas." He stopped again, and slowly and carefully straightened his collar and smoothed back the lock of hair which was dangling over his brow.
"It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's woe!" Only it was not the schooner Hesperus, and she did not sail the wintry sea.
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