illume

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Meant by Heaven to be the shadow of another's sun—not herself the sun—this child is not the one who can atone for the Past and illume the Future.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

See now the morning star the sky illume!

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

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

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale Can one illume a leaden sky?

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

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