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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 Philip Freneau

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

His merit is rather that he was able to illume chaos, darkness, and presentiments by the very indefiniteness and the vague music of his soul.

From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig

From morn till eve I rove along, And joys my eyes illume, If you but listen to my song, And kindly buy a broom.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

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

Caverns with ice shapes, blue-tinted, translucent: Columns and altars and figures fantastic, Imagined in dreams or pictured in fever, Softly illumed by the moonlight's reflection.

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering

And first, a wildly murmuring wind ’gan creep Shrill to his ringing ear; then tapers bright, With instantaneous gleam, illumed the vault of night.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie

They had been unable to see each other, except when the universe seemed illumed by the flashes of lightning.

From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

And I, who through my blind eyes feel the moon illuming my forest by night and the sun by day, abide in peace, so that even the wild beasts press round to hear my music.

From The ninth vibration and other stories by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

In the midst of these encouraging omens, the sun dipped into the sea, illuming, as it fell, a wide reach of the chill and gloomy element.

From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper

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

Before the earliest buds   Have softly opened, heralding the May With tender light illuming the gray woods,   I shall be gone away.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean

With a bright smile illuming her face she rose and held out a hand to the giant before her.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking