Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE SUMMER SUN (CORONADO), by MARGUERITE WILKINSON


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TO THE SUMMER SUN (CORONADO), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great sun, why are you pitiless?
Last Line: That I may miss you for a day!
Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Sun


GREAT sun, why are you pitiless?
All day your glance is hard and keen
Upon the hills that once were green
Where summer, sere and passionless,
Now lies brown-frocked against the sky
And makes of them her resting place
Since she has drunk the valleys dry.
You never turn away your face
And I, who love you, cannot bear
Your long, barbaric, searching look
Down through the low cool flights of air;
Your tirelessness I cannot brook,
For all my body aches with light
And you have glutted me with sight,
With flooding color made me blind
To homely things more soft and kind,
Till I have longed for clouds to roll
Between you and my naked soul
O Great Beloved, hide away
That I may miss you for a day!





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