Yet, grace of language and merciful tenderness for the lonely, misplaced, soft people of the earth shine through ludicrous details of what Williams called "my funny melodrama".
From another perspective, our earth shines like a star.
In "Gibbous Moon With Stereoscopic Vision," "Rotating Galaxy" and "Earth Shine," the immensity of outer space is flatly contradicted by the roughness of the surface, a surprisingly comforting, intimate effect.
My favorite line of dialogue was: "If all the people that lived together loved one another, the earth would shine like the sun".
The warm breeze embraced me as I left earth on that shining morning.
On Earth the sunlight, shining through gaps in foliage and other small openings, is then seen to form little crescents of light that are images of the light source, the Sun.
Among those figures are "a flock of dead birds," "a headless goat man" and a "lion with four heads, who looks this morning / As he rises from the shadows, like the creature / Who carries on his back the flat and shining earth".
The welfare of each region is determined by the state of one of four shining crystals: earth, water, fire, and wind, respectively.
I am able to remind myself that, in fact, all the people on the earth do not love one another and the earth does not shine like the sun.
Dickens's Little Nell e. Hardy's Tess 2. Identify the author: The One remains, the many change and pass;/ Heaven's light forever shines, earth's shadows fly;/ Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass/ Stains the white radiance of eternity,/ Until Death tramples it to fragments.
This hot spot rotates with the star, shining towards the earth once per rotation.
