The rough pine-floors showed a black border of tack-heads where carpets had been lifted and put down for generations; the white paint was yellow with age; the apartment had light at the front and at the back, and two or three rooms had glimpses of the day through small windows let into their corners; another one seemed lifting an appealing eye to heaven through a glass circle in its ceiling; the rest must Darkle in perpetual twilight.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes"
William Dean Howells
From him that dream of transport flows, Which sweet intoxication knows; With him, the brow forgets to Darkle, And brilliant graces learn to sparkle.
"The Odes of Anacreon"
Thomas Moore
Where a fallen sycamore Whitely arches a pathway o'er, And shadows Darkle The lambent cool, As, softly a-sparkle.
"Nirvana Days"
Cale Young Rice