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Long-while I sought to what I might compare Those powrefull eies which lighten my dark spright; Yet find I nought on earth, to which I dare Resemble th'ymage of their goodly light.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Sleep, baby, sleep: And do not bleat like sheep, Or else the shepherd's dog will bite My naughty, little, crying spright: Sleep, baby, sleep.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

But fayrest she, when so she doth display The gate with pearles and rubyes richly dight, Throgh which her words so wise do make their way, To beare the message of her gentle spright.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

I should conjecture that the very spright that “the green sour ringlets makes Whereof the ewe not bites” had manufactured it of the dew fallen on said sour ringlets.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

O thou, the love of whom doth fill my heart and overflow, Even      when wine, with water mixed, fills up the brimming bowl, O thou for whom desire torments my body and my spright!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John