illume

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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

As thou, Christ, to illume it, holdest Heaven Broadly over our heads.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb; Melt and dispel, ye spectre doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various