Nor wealth nor grandeur can illume The silent midnight of the tomb.
Turn from the canvas that creative eye, And let its splendor, like the morning ray Upon a shepherd's harp, illume my lay.
I clearly see that our intellect is never satisfied unless the Truth illume it, outside of which no truth extends.
The elements Pour forth their wrath in such tremendous peals, Such bolts of fiery death illume the sky, That earthly weapons seem the lesser ill.
Such is the image of my heart: joy's rays Illume its depths and sparkle on its surface; But all within is restless--bright confusion.
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.
Bible] would never have been written if not calculated by itself to illume the minds of all classes of mankind.
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.
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?
Pale as the dead, she hears his gladness speak, Sees the rare smile illume the careworn cheek; Dear if the lover in her sunny day, More dear the Sire since sunshine pass'd away.
Mid the dark steeps repose the shadowy streams, As touch'd with dawning moonlight's hoary gleams, Long streaks of fairy light the wave illume With bordering lines of intervening gloom, 1793.
Our dark and erring minds illume With truth's celestial rays; Inspire our hearts with sacred love, And tune our lips to praise.
Affliction's deepest gloom Shall but his love display; He will the vale of death illume With living ray.
The evening star has lighted Her crystal lamp on high; So, when in death benighted, May hope illume the sky.
I had to share myself In fifty portions, like an o'ertasked elf That's forced illume in fifty points the vast Rare vapor he's environed by.
V Among the wondrous ways of men and time He went as one that ever found and sought And bore in hand the lamplike spirit of thought To illume with instance of its fire sublime The dusk of many a cloudlike age and clime.
The pall upon my heart by error thrown Remove; illume me with Thy radiant thought.
Thou for days the oil didst furnish To illume the Temple won from foe-- So for centuries in my people Spirit of resistance ne'er burnt low.
But there's a sweeter flower than e'er Blushed on the rosy spray - A brighter star, a richer bloom Than e'er did western heaven illume At close of summer day.
