spright

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To the Lord of all creatures, to God be the praise, Whilst yet      in the body abideth the spright!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

He opened it and found these words written therein: 'The messenger brought me a promise of union and delight; But yet      that he had mistaken 'twas constant in my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

What e're thou be, Be'st thou her spright, or some divinitie, That in her shape thinks good to walk this grove, Pardon poor Perigot.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis

Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce: Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look, And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright, And happy rymes! bath'd in the sacred brooke Of Helicon, whence she derived is.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund