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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 Clare, John

I have sung them all;—youth's lightsomeness that fleets,   Pure friendship, my most fondly cherished dreams, Wild blossoms and the winds that steal their sweets,   Wood odors, and the star that whitely gleams.

From In Divers Tones by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Never again with the lightsomeness that had never known sorrow, but light even to gayety with the new and higher love born of tribulation.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.

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 extends beneath the choir transepts and chapter-house; in consequence of the steep declivity on which the cathedral stands it is of unusual height and lightsomeness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various