[Page 246]

AN EVENING ODE.

TO STELLA.

BY THE SAME.
1 EVENING now, from purple wings,
2 Sheds the grateful gifts she brings;
3 Brilliant drops bedeck the mead,
4 Cooling breezes shake the reed;
5 Shake the reed, and curl the stream
6 Silver'd o'er with Cynthia's beam;
7 Near the checquer'd, lonely grove,
8 Hears and keeps thy secrets, Love.
9 STELLA, thither let us stray I
10 Lightly o'er the dewy way,
11 Phoebus drives his burning car,
12 Hence, my lovely STELLA, far;
13 In his stead, the Queen of night
14 Round us pours a lambent light;
[Page 247]
15 Light, that serves but just to shew
16 Breasts that beat, and cheeks that glow;
17 Let us now, in whisper'd joy,
18 Evening's silent hours employ,
19 Silence best, and conscious shades
20 Please the hearts that Love invades.
21 Other pleasures give them pain,
22 Lovers all but Love disdain.

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 40K / ZIP - 4.9K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 796 / ZIP - 648 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 o.790].)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - 3.0M)

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): AN EVENING ODE. TO STELLA.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Themes: night; love
Genres: ode
References: DMI 32595

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. III. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770, pp. 246-247. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1136; OTA K093079.003) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 o.790].)

Editorial principles

The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.