Careful Words

dimness (n.)

Who hath not proved how feebly words essay

To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray?

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight

Faints into dimness with its own delight,

His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess

The might, the majesty of loveliness?

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 6.