The south-westerly mood of the great West Wind is a
lightless mood, without sun, moon, or stars, with no gleam of light but the phosphorescent flashes of the great sheets of foam that, boiling up on each side of the ship, fling bluish gleams upon her dark and narrow hull, rolling as she runs, chased by enormous seas, distracted in the tumult.
With the red light shut off and soaring like an immense shadow on the crest of a wave she was lost to view in one great, forward swing, melting into the
lightless space.
After all, that was only a savage sight, while I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some
lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a positive relief, being something that had a right to exist--obviously--in the sunshine.
He had come out of a highly hygienic prison round like a tub, with an enormous stomach and distended cheeks of a pale, semi-transparent complexion, as though for fifteen years the servants of an outraged society had made a point of stuffing him with fattening foods in a damp and
lightless cellar.
The night, clear and starry, sparkled darkly, and the opaque,
lightless patches shift- ing slowly against the low stars were the drifting islets.
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Lightless Cavern B Dark Abyss C Black Space D Black Hole 10.
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Lightless Cavern B Dark Abyss C Black Space D Black Hole A Drive Time B Early Morning C Midday D Late Night
Wilder, 33, appeared hopelessly locked with the devil in a
lightless madman's cave.
In that place, there , what I knew: fire is no metaphor, water no metaphor: they were my rage, my grief, and I was
lightless earth .
"Soon the kids / would descend from these
lightless houses," he writes, "gloved and scarved, on their way to school / with tin boxes of sandwiches and cookies." As the train in front of him slows and then stops, Levine's collection turns, for the last time, to its powerful culmination: "Around me / the engines began to die, and then / my own went." Then, the poem's conclusion:
They banned his song "That is You" claiming the lyrics find fault in others, while "
Lightless Window" was accused of instigating adultery and "A Shot of Memories" binge drinking.
lightless - without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"