"Illume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or mystic toy Proclaims his godship, young and warm: He sits alone, a naked boy, Clad in the beauty of his form. Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various
... fern plume; White the sea gravel—fierce the waves spume. There is no lamp like reason man's life to illume. ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves
... flowers these— Spring's full-faced primroses, Summer's wild wide-hearted rose, Autumn's wall-flower of the close, And, thy darkness to illume, Winter's bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples, used aright, Can ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling
... so; I grant thy suit: soon as to-morrow's dawn Illume the world, the rage of wasting war In vain shall thirst for blood. Thou know'st my last resolve, and now farewell. Some ...
— The Grecian Daughter • Arthur Murphy
... years to be; Good wishes, of old friendship born For days ye both shall see. When in your bowers, Bloom promise-flowers, Ah! ne'er may sorrow's gloom Bring shadow there, May sunlight fair Your hearth and home illume! All good, all joy, all blessing true, I wish to ...
— Lays from the West • M. A. Nicholl
... back from him and fate make room For passage of his feet, Strong as their own are fleet, And yield the prey no years may reassume Through all their clamorous track, Nor night nor day win back Nor give to darkness what his eyes illume And his lips bless for ever: he Knows what earth knows not, sings truth ...
— Studies in Song • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... At which the pious pray and praise, Should guide the wicked, I decree That no such intercourse there be." Hence to this day all men decline To light their candle at the shrine; Nor from a candle e'er presume The holy light to re-illume. How many things are here contain'd, By him alone can be explain'd Who could this useful tale invent. In the first place, herein is meant, That they are often most your foes Who from your fost'ring hand arose. Next, that the harden'd villain's fate ...
— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus
... your lamp, and let its light Illume the darkness of the night; And with the tarrying host attend The Bridegroom, ...
— Hymns from the East - Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the - Holy Eastern Church • John Brownlie
... soon reach'd the port Renown'd, where that Phoenician vessel lay. They shipp'd us both, and all embarking cleav'd Their liquid road, by favourable gales, Jove's gift, impell'd. Six days we day and night Continual sailed, but when Saturnian Jove Now bade the sev'nth bright morn illume the skies, Then, shaft-arm'd Dian struck the woman dead. At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580 The seamen gave her to be fishes' food, And I survived to mourn her. But the winds And rolling billows them bore to ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer
... though my voice cease like a moan o' the wind, Not the less shall I Cast on life a kindly eye, Glad if through its mystery Stray gleams of love and truth illume my mind. ...
— Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems • Thomas Runciman
... Mammon for this fete Grandly illume his palace! Thou Art lucky to have seen it; now, The boisterous guests, ...
— Faust Part 1 • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
