Careful Words

sparkling (n.)

sparkling (adj.)

Sparkling and bright in liquid light

Does the wine our goblets gleam in;

With hue as red as the rosy bed

Which a bee would choose to dream in.

Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884): Sparkling and Bright.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore

Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Rape of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 7.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,

Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859): Politics and Poetics.