lightsomeness

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Mallarmé plunged his verses into a secret darkness of symbols, until the words with their subterranean meaning almost became unintelligible, while Verlaine gave his lines the dream-rapt lightsomeness of a music never heard before.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark

The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell