1810 W. Scott iii. 127 To-morrow eve..My vesper song [may be] thy wail, sweet maid!
1872 H. W. Longfellow Baron St. Castine in i. 99 No day is so long But it comes at last to vesper-song.
1893 June 764/1 Our little vesper sparrow is said to have had the same end in view when he made his soft sweet carol the vesper-song of the uplands.