When, after whole pages of sorrow and shame, She saw History write, With a pencil of light That illumed the whole volume, her Wellington's name.
When, as the moonbeam that trembled o'er thee Illumed thy blushes, I knelt before thee, And read my hope's sweet triumph in those eyes?
Far dearer the grave or the prison, Illumed by one patriot name, Than the trophies of all, who have risen On Liberty's ruins to fame.
From the heart with a burst like the wild-bird in spring; Illumed by a wit that would fascinate sages, Yet playful as Peris just loosed from their cages.
It is inevitable that every poet's feeling for the world should be that of Shelley, who says to the spirit of beauty, Never joy illumed my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery.
Everything in his unfortunate life vouches for the sincerity of his statement, in the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Never joyillumed my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery.
It had become very dark; suddenly a blaze of sheet-lightning illumed the room.
Shall not his parting moments be illumed By hope's delightful beams?
It is through her child, through Oswald, that all this becomes illumed to her.
But I've seen it illumed with a mischievous light, Which the sparkles displayed in the meteor's flight Cannot meet, as her laughter reverberates round, And merrily echo responds to the sound.
It had become very dark; suddenly a blaze of sheet lightning illumed the room.
In those blank periods, where no man can trace The gleams of thought that first illumed his race, His errors, twined with science, took their birth, And forged their fetters for this child of earth.
Illumed the shrouds and rainbow'd far the spray; The smiling crew rose resolute and brave, And the glad sails hung bounding o'er the wave.
Out of all time to me Thou cam'st emerging from the depth of dreams, As rose the Venus from her native sea; And at thy coming, Light with all his beams Illumed Creation's golden Jubilee.
Then terror fled, And all the king illumed the front he rear'd.
There is a little resemblance of this spiritual light, with the intellectual light of philosophers, whose minds are enlightened by the cooling moon-beams of philosophy, as those of the inspired saints are illumed with spiritual light.
It was as bright as a big white cloud, and as brilliant as the shining orb of the moon; It illumed the groves on all sides, and struck with amazement at the vision.
The soul settled in the great intellect of God, and shining with the light of the supreme soul, as the sky is illumed by the luminary of the day.
Yet our Volume illumed with fresh splendours shall rise, To be gazed at by Angels, and read to the skies, Reviewed by its Author, revised by his Pen, In a fair new Edition to flourish again.
For you the Monk illumed his pictured page, For you the press defies the spoils of age; Faustus for you infernal tortures bore, For you Erasmus starved on Adria's shore.
Intruding the door between themselves and all further speculation, the strangely-assorted pair proceeded along a dimly-illumed hallway to a room in which Raikes usually secluded himself.
At this thought the malignant light of a fearful determination illumed his features and revealed their frightful distortion.
Ever and anon a peal of thunder echoed above, a flash of vivid lightning illumed the waters, and far as eye could see the waters tossed high their whitened crests.
The restless spirit charmed thy sweet existence, Making all beauteous in youth's pleasant maze, While gladsome hope illumed the onward distance, And lit with sunbeams thy expectant days.
Long on that height the pensive friends remain'd Till ocean's curve conceal'd her from the eye, And all was hope that she her port attain'd Ere ten more suns illumed the morning sky.
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