Lambent

But then the voice came and he snapped upright on his cot, his eyes flaring wide, huge and lambent in his starved face.

Clara is almost like a ghost, a lambent thing with one hand out against the wall, a shimmeringness in the gloom, like a candle in a midnight forest.

A lonely, lambent woman looking out at her embittered aunt’s ornamental garden, listening to a tangerine.

To whom do you expose your father’s life, Your son’s, and mine, your now forgotten wife!’ While thus she fills the house with clam’rous cries, Our hearing is diverted by our eyes: For, while I held my son, in the short space Betwixt our kisses and our last embrace; Strange to relate, from young Iülus’ head A lambent flame arose, which gently spread Around his brows, and on his temples fed.

How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men’s eyes, Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs, Or midnight’s silent glowing northern lights unreachable.

While we took it the sunshine seemed less lambent, and Azrak not so aloof from fear.

She could not tear her gaze away from the reflections of lambent orange flames within the creature.