illume

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Swift as communicated rays That leap from severed suns a gloom Within whose waste no suns illume, The wingèd dream fulfilled its ways.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

That Friend shall thus each tear illume, To forms of glory shape that gloom.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

God pity the cheerless widow Gray, And send from the halls of Eternal Day The light of His peace to illume her way!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

As thou, Christ, to illume it, holdest Heaven Broadly over our heads.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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 Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing