illume

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How blest its maidens! cloudless is their day, And radiant herbs illume their nightly way.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa

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

You have shone on my house as a pair Of candles a corpse illume!

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

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

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various