5 'Leave me not wild and drear and comfortless, As silent lightning leaves the starless night!

According to them, Jesus Christ, instead of shining as the light of the world, extinguished the torches which his own prophets had kindled, and plunged mankind into the palpable darkness of a starless midnight!

He saw a dark, wide, and barren shingle of the world, a desert of desolation made by man, where strange, windy shrieks and thundering booms and awful cries went up in the night, and where drifting palls of smoke made starless sky, and bursts of reddish fires made hell.

Suppose them all extinct, and life would be like a flowerless earth, a starless heaven.

A long time afterward, when Kenelm was standing beside his window looking out into the starless dark, Felicia's special knock sounded hollowly at his door.

All the figures are shrouded in a blank starless gloom; to read the play is to watch the riot of devils.

And the invincible vague hope of youth, and the irrepressible consciousness of power, were almost ready to flame up afresh, contrary to all reason, and irradiate her starless soul.

Soft through the starless abysses, Soft as the breath of the summer Loosens the chains of the river, Sweeping it free to the sea, Murmurs a murmur of peace: "Soul!

Broader and wider and deeper grew the starless space, the vacant Beyond, into which I was being drawn.

And, though they shut their lids to kiss, In starless darkness peace to win, Even on that secret world from this Her twilight enters in.

"Hence, when such maddened tempests rave, I cannot rest at home, For then the billows deck his grave With flowers of snow-white foam; And here I pray till break of day Beneath night's starless dome.

The wavering sable line of its tree-tops spread a pall across the starless horizon.

30 And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew 35 In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!

Thou canst starless sail, and fear not to be lost?