lightsomeness
Example Sentences
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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 Stefan Zweig
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 Hiram Corson
Sheep ointment seems to daub the dead-hued sky, And night shuts up the lightsomeness of day, All dark and absent as a corpse's eye.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
There was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.
From The Crimson Blind by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
The unobtrusive, but distinctly felt, alliteration which runs through it, contributes something toward this lightsomeness.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
