“Calm on the listening ear of night
Come Heaven’s melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.”
Christmas Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems
The Path of Roses (1856), concluding lines
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
“Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer
Silver.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
“Night's black mantle covers all alike.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, First Day. Compare: "Come civil night,… with thy black mantle", William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“The day in his hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The night in her silence,
The stars in their calm.”
Matthew Arnold book Empedocles on Etna
Act II
Empedocles on Etna (1852)