The clouds have left the sky, The wind hath left the sea, The half-moon up on high Shrinketh her face of dree She lightens on the comb Of leaden waves, that roar And thrust their hurried foam Up on the dusky shore.
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
Kindly is she to all mortals, and she breathes into them soft desires, and she lightens the cares of him that is in longing.
That lightensthe darkness of much of the world's sin.
Oh, in the years when even this seeming Lightens the eyes of Love no more, Dream them still in thy timeless dreaming Anima mundi, sis memor!
He also lightens his pages with compact but pungent comments.
No part have these wan legends in the sun Whose glory lightens Greece and gleams on Rome.
Now, one of the first things to be said of music is that it makes happiness, and what makes happiness is good for us, because happiness not only lightens the heart, but it is one of the best ways to make the light come to the face.
The battle is fiercely fought, and is about to have an unfavourable result for the frogs, when Zeus takes pity upon them; he lightens and hurls his thunderbolts.
From the springs of the morning it thunders and lightens across and afar To the wave where the moonset ends and the fall of the last low star.
The master that lightens not hearts he enlightens, but gives them foreknowledge of death.
When caught by a tempest, wherever it be, / If it lightens and thunders, beware of a tree.
He passed, the man above all men, whose breath Transfigured life with speech that lightens death.
And the girl, full-grown to the stature of godhead in womanhood, spake The word that sweetens and lightens her creed for her great love's sake.
Yet scarce the intolerant sense Of day's harsh evidence How came their word and whence Strikes dumb the song of thanks it bids them give, The joy that answers as it heard And lightens as it saw the light that spake the word.
Upon his bloody finger he doth wear A precious ring that lightens all the hole, Which, like a taper in some monument, Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks, And shows the rugged entrails of the pit.
A trusty villain, sir, that very oft, When I am dull with care and melancholy, Lightens my humour with his merry jests.
Behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth Controlling majesty.
Then helightens the ocean of fire and the seas of sulphur-fire that are round about the red countries.
Twelve plains there are under the body of the earth he lightens every night; the fiery sea laughs against his journey; ranks of angels come together, welcoming his visit after the brightness of the night.
We come to feel a personal liking for him, through his unaffected interest in his characters, his unassuming ways and the tact by which he lightens or deepens his accentuation.
Physically, as the brain becomes refreshed, the facelightens up, the colors become heightened, and a glow spreads over the whole system.
He distributes his labor so that he never over-tasks himself, he lightens it and refreshes himself by brief intervals of rest, which relieve him, without interrupting its continuity, sometimes a duty.
The landscape grows obscure, the forms of the pickers in the distance become dim and misty, and when at last it lightens up a little, they have disappeared from the fields.
Nothing but this perhaps, that it stands--or rather let me say that it blows and sounds and shines and rings and thunders and lightens as far ahead of all others as the burlesque sea-storm of Rabelais beyond all possible storms of comedy.
Lightens across the sunlight to the elm Where his mate dangles at her cup of felt.
It is my sun that lightens me, My well-spring, me refreshing!
Trial God sendeth, Speedily endeth The storms of ocean, The wind's commotion Lightens the sunshine so gladsome and bright.
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