Lightsome

This said, the smoky cloud was cleft and torn, / Which like a veil upon them stretched lay, // And up to open heav'n forthwith was borne, / And left the prince in view of lightsome day.

If any find it incredible that Ida be even outwardly so lightsome that she saw clearly in the night, let them answer this question.

While in their mothers wombe enclosd they were, / Ere they into the lightsom world were brought, / In fleshly lust were mingled both yfere […]

There came a day when he remembered the moment, when he regretted that he had not ridden off into the buoyant midst of these lightsome elements.

The literal sense of the Greek is: “If therefore thy whole body is lightsome, having no part darksome, thy whole body will be lightsome, as when the lamp lightens thee with its flashing.”

Reality is lightsome, that is, light and graceful.... Moreover, the play, the lightsome character of reality, would be misunderstood if this dimension were to be severed from what really makes a play a play, [...]

When I was of your youth, I was lightsome and quick two years before I was married.