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To error’s joyless waste betrayed; No light will there illume thy road, No friendly voice will give thee aid.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various

But when we meet, as here, to play at Golf, Whig, Radical, and Tory—all are off— Off the contested politics, I mean— And fun and harmony illume the scene.

From Poems on Golf by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society

See now the morning star the sky illume!

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

Often, when seated at the play, And sonorous music lights the stage, I see the frail hand of a Fay With magic dawn illume the rage Of the dark sky.

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

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

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson

To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon."

From Time Magazine Archive

We see a dimly illumed underground waterfall and climb down to it for a dark thundering shower.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

She laughed in a half-vexed manner at her attempts, while Livingston stood near watching, his eyes earnest, intent, his face illumed by a soft, boyish smile of quiet enjoyment.

From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker

No nation yet has risen o'er earth's first nature; Though love illumed each individual mind, Like some half-blind, half-formed primeval creature The State still crawled a thousand years behind.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

Christ hath sent us down the angels, And the whole earth and the skies Are illumed by altar-candles, Lit for blessed mysteries.

From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray

Stars of strange and faint illuming, Reads the national magician; Stripes of gory hue adorning, All the mammoth constellation; Stripes extending down the shadow Of the shifting, warning picture.

From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

He stood there as he stood that day on the carriage that bore Robert Burnham to his death, the light of heroism in his eyes, the glow of splendid faith illuming his face.

From Burnham Breaker by Homer Greene

It was pitchy dark when we landed, but rockets soon began to fly about in all directions, illuming the air far and wide. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow

A Hero fair, from out the dawn's bright blooming, Rides forth, illuming level shore and flood; The white and seaward plain he sets in motion, He stirs the ocean into burning blood.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves

The balmiest winds blowing soft where she steers,   The favor of heaven illuming her path-- She might sail as she pleased to the mild summer airs,   And avoid the dread regions of tempest and wrath.

From War Poetry of the South by Various