Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SEEING THE SUN SHINE ... MY WINDOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE YEAR, by LUCY AIKEN Poet's Biography First Line: Calm the evening sun declines Last Line: And smiling bid thee welcome still! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Sun | ||||||||
CALM the evening sun declines, Bright his western glory shines; Long by wintry clouds concealed, Now he glows; he burns revealed; Now he darts a stronger ray, And smiles upon the lengthened day. It comes, it comes, the welcome beam! See the ruddy radiance stream; See the long-lost splendour fall Playful on the brightening wall! Hail, stranger, to my lonely room; Disperse the cold ungenial gloom! Thy keen, thy quickening beams diffuse, And wake to song my torpid Muse! Carol all the feathered choir Toucht by thy reviving fire; By it the glittering insect throng Fills the air with murmuring song. From clime to clime, the birds of spring Follow thee on gaudy wing; The buds, the flowers, thy light obey, All that gem the car of May: Unblest by thee, with drooping head They sink upon their earthy bed. Let others fly the golden noon To stray beneath the pallid moon, And in languid strains relate Hapless loves, and hostile fate; While the cold and glimmering ray Sadly glides, the ghost of day, And the boding owlet screams, Flitting thro' the doubtful gleams: Be mine to hail thee, source of light! Gorgeous in thy western plight, Now my cheerful song employ, Source of music, life, and joy! And when sportive youth expires, Feeling cools, and Fancy tires, Often may thy evening glow Gild again my locks of snow; Oft at noon, with tottering feet, May I woo thy vital heat; Amid thy radiance bask at will, And smiling bid thee welcome still! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON by WILLIAM MEREDITH WHY I WAKE EARLY by MARY OLIVER CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUN by HAYDEN CARRUTH SERPENT SUN EYE BEWITCHING MY EYE by AIME CESAIRE DIRGE FOR THE LATE JAMES CURRIE, M.D., OF LIVERPOOL by LUCY AIKEN |
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