illume

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From dreams of conquest, worlds and empires won Britain awaking, mourns her setting sun, No rays of joy her evening hour illume, 'Tis one sad chaos, one unmingled gloom!

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

What warm and heavenly tints illume The land that lately seem'd a tomb Where thou wert left to die!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

Shall I tell thee now All that I think of, when, by land and sea, The days and nights illume the world for me?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

No rays of dawn our path illume, We are sunk together in ceaseless gloom.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold