Word: faints
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mighty peak; while that faint spark...
...sweet faint perfume reminds...
...Procrustes bed of a particular metre, no feet are stretched and no thoughts mutilated, take up at random any collection of poems, and how many are there that seem to bear a trace of the influence of the true spirit of Poesy? How many give us glimpses of that faint and fair celestial mirage which attends her coming, seldom seen by mortal eyes, never to be summoned at will, - as it were, the scenes and longings of life mirrored in the purity of heaven...
...faint glimpse of those Islands of the Blest...