illume

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I often assume gayety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile, which twenty years ago almost bewitched me, and which still constitutes my highest pleasure.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

It burned in other heavens with more celestial light; but it shone no longer over her path—to cheer, to comfort, to illume.

From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia

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 Baudelaire, Charles

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

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