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THE RISING SUN, by AL-HAITHAM First Line: Behold with wondering eyes Last Line: Like frozen raindrops gleam. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Abi L-haytham | ||||||||
Behold with wondering eyes The sun in beauty rise; One brow is bathed in light, One grudged as yet to sight. As though the sun would say: 'I shall not grudge alway; This loveliness of mine Will soon all naked shine.' O beauty's mirror, bare In beauty splendid there To east, anon to west At even laid to rest. The far horizons grieve To see its radiance leave The skies, and wrap them round In shadows deep, profound. And, as each star appears, Meseems that heaven's tears In agony supreme Like frozen raindrops gleam. | Other Poems of Interest...THE WISTFUL DAYS by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON MOST LOVELY SHADE; FOR ALICE BOUVERIE by EDITH SITWELL THE TWO GLASSES by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 20 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ADDRESS SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE DRURY-LANE THEATRE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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