illume

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Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

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

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

Does Cynthia, when to western skies arriv'd, Spend her sweet beam upon the barren main, And ne'er illume with midnight splendor, she, The natives dancing on the lightsome green?—

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

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

It is evident the sun shines through a clear atmosphere beyond the cloud, or his rays would not reach and illume the lower surface of the cirro-stratus with such distinctness.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden