...the waving boughs : Ascending thence the Stygian vapour shades The twinkling glories of the heavenly vault, And all the planets of malignant rule, Gleam on the midnight earth their baleful rays. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1762. A woman of vivacity and talents. Her letters from Constantinople,...

...sublimely rides, And murmurs solemn in the waving boughs: Ascending thence, the Stygian vapour shades The twinkling glories of the heav'nly vault; And all...malignant rule, Gleam on the midnight earth their baleful rays. In the second book, summer comes. The laborer in the fields longs for night in vain. There is...