sea-brilliancy

Updated: January 29, 2026

Thenceforward we were enshrouded in patchy darkness, so that we could not have seen an object at twenty paces from the ship. Eternal night continued to envelop us, all unrelieved by the phosphoric sea-brilliancy to which we had been accustomed in the tropics.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1