From which omphalos or hub of the universe he will direct his shining team even to the far Hesperides of Richmond or of Windsor. |
The peaches of immortality suggest the apples of the Hesperides. |
Who has not seen in imagination, when looking into the sunset sky, the gardens of the Hesperides, and the foundation of all those fables? |
Juno prized these apples highly, and gave them to the Hesperides, the daughters of Hesperus. |
The ancients, in their ignorance, placed the garden of the Hesperides there. |
These golden apples, then, came to be known as the apples of Hesperides. |