Gleams

Barty evidently had all this in his mind when he wrote the song of the seminarist in "Gleams," beginning:

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

And round the gables.] [Footnote 2: "Gleams," it appears, is a Lincolnshire word for the cry of the curlew, and so by removing the comma after call we get an interpretation which perhaps improves the sense and certainly gets rid of a very un-Tennysonian cumbrousness in the second line.

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

Only the full from the gone; the long line is moon of spray and lies Gleams fair light Upon the straights; --- on the French coast the What the devil was that?

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

Gleams of light in broken flashes glanced in all directions, especially upwards.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round!

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Gleams of good humour dispersed the gloom on the faces of our guests.

My Tropic Isle 2003

I am a part of all that I have met, Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

Perhaps some two hours later Ross swam toward the land mass of Kyn Add. Gleams of light pricked on the shore well to his left.

Key Out of Time Andre Norton 1958

Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Gleams of great beauty are, however, sometimes found amid matter that in the process of transmission has almost ceased to be poetry.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles