illume

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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

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

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)

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

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 Hindley, Charles