"Illume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... jasmine-covered arbour, fit retreat For hearts that love repose. Each spot displays Some long-remembered charm. In sweet amaze I feel as one who from a weary dream Of exile wakes, and sees the morning beam Illume the glorious clouds of every hue That float o'er scenes ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... times are in thy hand! Should friendship pure illume And strew my path with fairest flowers, Or should I spend life's dreary hours In solitude's dark gloom, Thou art a friend. Till time shall end Unchangeably the same; ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
... all, When yon same star, that's westward from the pole, Had made its course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus, and myself The bell then beating one—" "Peace, break thee off; look, ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper
... awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper
... come a fairer day, When thou shalt be a buoyant plume, To soar, where clearer suns illume, ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... Sensibility! she stands confest, With trembling step she moves, and panting breast; Wav'd by the gentle breath of passing sighs Loose in the air her robe expanded flies; 220 Wet with the dew of tears her soft veil streams, And in her eye the ray of pity beams; No vivid roses her mild cheek illume, Sorrow's wan touch has chas'd the purple bloom: Yet ling'ring there in tender, pensive grace, 225 The softer lily fills the vacant place; And ever as her precious tears bedew Its modest flowers, they shed a paler hue. To yon deserted grave, lo swift she flies Where her lov'd ...
— Poems (1786), Volume I. • Helen Maria Williams
... be won, The stain of thy wing is washed away, But another errand must be done Ere thy crime be lost for aye; Thy flame-wood lamp is quenched and dark, Thou must re-illume its spark. Mount thy steed and spur him high To the heaven's blue canopy; And when thou seest a shooting star, Follow it fast, and follow it far The last feint spark of its burning train Shall light ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
... aspect things assume; What once was darkness, Gospel truths illume! In the sweet services of Sabbath days He takes delight—in spirit sings and prays. Views Family Worship as an altar raised To the true God, who should be always praised. And now, whene'er he takes his walks abroad, Hears Nature's voice well tuned in praise of God. Each blade of ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd
... bright, With Freedom's light, Shone forth in dazzling splendor, She scorned to hold, The more than gold, From those who did befriend her; At space she spurned, With love she burned, And straight across the ocean Sent Freedom's rays, T' illume their days And quell their sons' commotion. Hail, Britannia! Thou loving, kind Britannia! Ne'er failed to wield Thy spear and shield. To guard our ...
— Lady Rosamond's Secret - A Romance of Fredericton • Rebecca Agatha Armour |
