illume

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A bright light illumes an ethereal white curtain, and what sounds like a chorus of angels sings: “I hope you find some peace of mind in this lifetime/I hope you find some paradise.”

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

No strains of music call my tears away, No smiling star illumes the awful night; Ambition weeps; my soul draws without light My shameless feet astray!

From Oklahoma and Other Poems by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

Why, my lover's life, in me Once concentrated, now diffused, illumes The endless reaches of eternity With infinite brilliance, with intense perfumes.

From Household Gods by Crowley, Aleister

The shades of night are falling fast, But joy illumes his brow, He shoots ahead—his trouble past, Pray who can catch him now?

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various

So in some village-barn, or festive hall The spheric lens illumes the whiten'd wall; 140 O'er the bright field successive figures fleet, And motley shadows dance along the sheet.—

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus