illume

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"True!" sighed the Shadow, and a softened smile Seemed to illume the coldness, void of guile, Of those phantasmal features.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

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 Zweig, Stefan

Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale Can one illume a leaden sky?

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

See now the morning star the sky illume!

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

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