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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUN Matches Found: 373 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 10-AUG, by JR. RALPH JOSEPH MILLS Poem Source First Line: Wind moves at %the porch door Subject(s): Sun; Wind 37, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Dropped in the furrow Last Line: Aint much of a gig Subject(s): Earth; Sun A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Last Line: The sun still proud, the shadow still disdained. Variant Title(s): Follow Subject(s): Love; Shadows; Sun; Time A COLORADO JUNE DAWN, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: There is magic interlacing of the shadows and the sun Last Line: Since you are here to share my glee. Subject(s): June; Magic; Morning; Summer; Sun A DARK MONTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month without sight of the sun Last Line: And the stars all night exult with us, hearing of joy that shall come with june. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Seasons; Sun; Bedtime A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean A HILLSIDE THAW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think to know the country and now know Last Line: The thought of my attempting such a stay! Subject(s): Sun; Moon; Thaw A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, and I will read to thee Last Line: And his first minute, after noone, is night. Subject(s): Shadows; Sun A MIDNIGHT SUN EPISODE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southward, gray peaks rise flecked with snow Last Line: Our golden day in glory ends. Subject(s): Night; Sun; Bedtime A MORNING HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, whose glory fills the skies Last Line: Shining to the perfect day. Subject(s): Day; Hymns (as Literary Form); Light; Morning; Sun A POET'S FANCIES: 4. THE MOON TO THE SUN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the full moon shining there Last Line: Day all night. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Moon; Poetry & Poets; Sun A PRIZE FOR EURIPIDES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In athens of old when the women wailed of war Last Line: Sorrow and pity and love, across the years! Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Love; Sun; Tears A REMINISCENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose Last Line: That a bee could have carried me so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Memory; Roses; Sun A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun! Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean A TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun woke me this morning loud Subject(s): Fire Island; Sun A VERSION OF THE OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Who rollest in yon azure field Last Line: The weary traveller shrinks and sighs for home. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sun A VINE-ARBOUR IN THE FAR WEST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laura, my laura! Yes, mother! I Last Line: "but I'll say to him, ""o my poor father, we wait you, come in.""'" Subject(s): Arbors; Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Mothers; Sun; Relatives A WESTERN VOYAGE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend the sun - like all my friends Last Line: My brother and good friend, the sun. Subject(s): Sun A WINTER'S DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into my garden sweet and fair Last Line: And she asks how long the sun will shine. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Night; Sun; Winter; Bedtime A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 4. MIRRORS, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The face of the moon reflects the sun's bright light Last Line: "to worship himself, what need would he have of us?" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Mirrors; Religion; Sun; Theology ADMIRAL OF THE PARKING LOT, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: All alike we sail to a shore of lies Last Line: Tomorrow once again we sail the ocean sea Subject(s): Dreams; Florida; Sun ADMONITION, by ALICE COYN TORBERT Poem Text First Line: Round each day's task before the set of sun Last Line: And we must wonder why you wait. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Stars; Sun; Work; Workers AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not made for me Last Line: That were shaken for me and you? Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean AFTER ALBERT CUYP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunset silence holds the patient land Last Line: The broad, green meadow grasses bright. Subject(s): Sun AFTER SUNSET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight from the sun's grave in the deep clear west Last Line: That love's last mortal word was not his last. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; Bedtime AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: The arkestra glitters in their saturn gowns Last Line: Doomed to life on this planet Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sun Ra [herman Blount] (1914-1993) AFTER THE HURRICANE, by HENRY DUNCAN CHISHOLM Poem Text First Line: The pines that rimmed our world, massed high upon Last Line: New hills, and low and bright another star. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Pine Trees; Sun; Trees AFTERWHILES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they - the afterwhiles Last Line: Out into the afterwhiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Life; Past; Sun AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT Poem Text First Line: As it was promised so I beheld Last Line: A gibbering, furtive beast, by nature damned. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Moon; Stars; Sun; Trees ALMOST NOON, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water, you remember / was so cold it took our breath Subject(s): Sun; Water ALSO LOVE YOU, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of you when I am dead, the way rocks Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology – Classical; Sun AN ABALONE SHELL, by GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE Poem Text First Line: The sun went down in fog tonight Last Line: I hold the sunset in my hand. Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Sunset; Twilight AN ACROSTIC: THE SUN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Darting his rays the sun now gloriously rides Last Line: Nor till gray twilight, aught abate thy force. Subject(s): Sun AN INVITATION, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has neatly varnished Last Line: I can't offend the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Sun ANOTHER SUMMER DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A dewdrop sparkled in the sun Last Line: Another summer day. Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight AS IF THE SUN LETS ITS DARKNESS, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Then the hillsides slowly over your heart Subject(s): Sun AS YOU WILL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She turns her face to the sun Last Line: From the one and only man Subject(s): Mercy; Prayer; Sun AT THE EQUINOX, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tide ebbs and reveals orange and purple sea stars Subject(s): Sun; Eatrh AUGUST, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: August days are hot and still Last Line: August is too hot for play! Subject(s): Drought; Summer; Sun BEFORE I GOT MY EYE PUT OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Incautious — of the sun Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Sun BESIEGED, by DOROTHY E. JACOBS Poem Text First Line: I stood upon the city wall Last Line: Before me feasts were made. Subject(s): Sun; Towns BIRD AND CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lord, if that cloud still grows and swells Last Line: And his mind has no complaint? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment; Seasons; Summer; Sun CARNIVAL, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's return is magical Last Line: Trying to become one with the gods. Subject(s): Carnivals; Slavery; Sun; Serfs CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care. Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness CHARITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praised the myrtle and the rose Last Line: In charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Charity; Love; Sun; Philanthropy CHILDREN OF THE SUN: 21, by WALLACE GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the heights the june winds racing, unhindered Last Line: Perhaps to join the winds of other summits -- Subject(s): Children; Sun; Childhood COME OUT INTO THE SUN AND BATHE YOUR EYES, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into the sun, come out, come in Subject(s): Sun CONQUEST (DEDICATED TO F. W.), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, chilly colors Last Line: Into the overpowering white! Subject(s): Sun; Sky CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a reasonable irrational fellow goodhumored Last Line: He dwells alone burning with as million fires Subject(s): Sun DANCERS IN THE SUN, by ARTHUR JONSON Poem Text First Line: The dancers all are gone from sacred groves Last Line: There will be men to reverence the sun. Subject(s): Sun DAWN, by TOM HIBBARD Poem Source First Line: The sun that chases the world Last Line: O you to whom I wished happiness Subject(s): Dawn; Happiness; Sun DAYBREAK, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun! Last Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun; Sunrise DE SUN'S COMING BACK, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Chillun, hush Last Line: Befo' I reach de fold. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Sun DECADENT, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to worship the moon Last Line: With the pallor of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Moon; Sun; Worship DECRIED, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Of beauty there will be always Last Line: Condemn the madonna? Subject(s): Beauty; Fruit; Mary And Martha (bible); Sun; Women In The Bible DESERT HYMN TO THE SUN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arches of the morning sky Last Line: But one who keeps, and shall reclaim his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food & Eating; Sun; World DESERT SCULPTURES, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: We go back to the desert Last Line: Our sweat %carving the earth Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Heat; Sun DILEMMA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows fall as the sun sinks down Last Line: Or be lost on a midnight-road? Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sun; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DOUBLE ABSENCE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rust-red moon above the rose-red cloud Subject(s): Sun; Moon DUSK, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: The sun has set. The sky is aglow Last Line: A quivering mass of the black gel, night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Dusk; Sky; Sun EARLY SPRING, by DOROTHY KINSEY SHISLER Poem Text First Line: More like autumn this day seems Last Line: Of hospitable spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Sun; Fall EARTH SPEAKS, by ETHEL CASE COOK Poem Text First Line: Benign accoucheur moving there Last Line: My flowers greet their father, sun. Subject(s): Sun ECCLESIASTES: THE LIGHT IS SWEET, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Truly the light is sweet Last Line: For the eyes to behold the sun. Subject(s): Sun ELEGIAC SONNET: 89. TO THE SUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether awaken'd from unquiet rest Last Line: My misery, or to day convert my night! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sun ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Last Line: In a most of blond locusts, %returning to the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun EPIGRAM: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is not dead that sometime hath a fall Last Line: Doeth ryse again and greater wode doeth bind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 60. From The City Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Sun; Wind; Dead, The EQUINOX, by GILLIAN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Nothing mellows Last Line: The gravity of ruminant %thre relevant of midge Subject(s): Moon; Sun EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What matter all my looks to thee? Last Line: I mean by night, I mean by night! Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Night; Sun; Bedtime FALLING DAY, by CHRISTY MACKAYE Poem Text First Line: If there's silence in summer Last Line: That you hear. Subject(s): Day; Summer; Sun FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed. Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters FESTIVAL OF GIOVEDI GRASSO, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it means looking into the sun, the people can barely see Last Line: And the sun slips down the churchsteps one by one Subject(s): Festivals; Sun FIRE FOR THE ALIEN, by LAURA VEACH CLARK Poem Text First Line: White buildings cap the brown hills Last Line: And cheers the alien guest. Subject(s): Sun FOLLOW THE LIGHT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To moping owl, and loathsome bat Last Line: The glory of the opening day. Subject(s): Light; Morning; Sun FORECAST, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All our stones like as much sun as possible. Subject(s): Sun FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 3. SUMMER IN AUVERGNE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sundawn fills the land Last Line: That scars their land. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer; Sun; Sunrise FRAGMENTS (4), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wilding little stubble flower Last Line: Gave likeness 'twixt the live and dead. Subject(s): Morning; Nature; Sun FRINGED GENTIAN, by ANNE ARNOLD CHASE Poem Text First Line: The sun-god, reaching down Last Line: We knelt and worshipped. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sun FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children were shouting together Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight FROSTY SHADOWS, by PEARL POTTER ETZ Poem Text First Line: When peeping o'er the east's gray brink Last Line: Splashed green on winter's white. Subject(s): Frost; Sun; Winter GAYETY OF FLAME: BEYOND ANGER, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why seize on words like boulders and then throw them Last Line: Splendid above the glory or the shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sun GAYETY OF FLAME: WAY OF THE SUNS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me forever give as the sun gives Last Line: Though nothing ever thanks a sun for shining. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sun GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling Last Line: Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. Subject(s): New York City; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GOLDEN ROAD, by CAROLYN ELKINS Poem Source First Line: It's happened to me only a few times Last Line: A road we have yet to set out on, %and have long ago been down Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Roads; Sun GRACE COMPARED TO THE SUN, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grace, as the sun, incessantly its light Last Line: Then blame thyself, if not regenerate! Subject(s): Sun GREEN WINDOW, by JOAN FISET Poem Source First Line: Its even disposition will linger after you are far from here Last Line: Before it disappears the view is ethereal and fraught with %longing you thought it would be simple t Subject(s): Sun GUIDO'S AURORA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun, with four tremendous steeds Last Line: And yields the sun dominion of the earth. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Reni, Guido (1575-1642); Sun HANG-OVER, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Morning is a dingy room Last Line: And the lost, lost sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Morning; Sea; Sun; Wine; Ocean HAYING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rustic idyl of the ardent days Last Line: And all its face is odorous again. Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Summer; Sun; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HE WHO LOSETH HIS LIFE SHALL FIND IT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poignantly, the gothic arch Last Line: Lover, merge thee in the whole! Subject(s): Air; Heaven; Life; Soul; Sun; Paradise HEAT, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Today is more arduous than the inferno Last Line: No blindness from the torture of the light Subject(s): Heat; Sun HERMAE...WHITAKERI, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Binde ye my browes with mourning cyparisse Last Line: A double life: that neither liu'd afore? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poplar Trees; Soul; Sun HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming Last Line: For the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness HOW CAN THE HEART UNHAPPY BE?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Now dawn the lovely days again Last Line: How can the heart unhappy be? Subject(s): Happiness; Melodies; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight HOW LUCKY IN ONE LIFE TO SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The sun lift a cloud from a pool! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Lakes; Nature; Sun HVAR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Let it rattle in my arms, in processions Last Line: Like an eel rushing from the mouth of the sun Subject(s): Eels; Sun HYMN TO AMEN RA: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail to thee, amen ra! Lord of the thrones of the two lands" Last Line: "thou who dost upraise the sky, and press down the ground!" Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO AMEN RA: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wake in health, min-amen!" Last Line: Their hearts live when they behold him Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO AMEN RA: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ra, exalted in karnak!" Last Line: Ani in he sanctuary Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO AMEN RA: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sole king is he, even in the midst of the gods" Last Line: His city loveth his rising Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO THE ATEN, by AKHENATEN Poem Text First Line: Beautiful is thy resplendent appearing on the horizon of heaven Last Line: At thy rising all live, at thy setting they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhnaten; Akhenaton Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO THE SUN, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Offspring of jove, calliope, once more Last Line: Sends from bright heaven beneath the shadowy sea. Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Sun HYMN TO THE SUN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giver of glowing light! Last Line: A solemn echo to the end of time. Subject(s): Sun HYMN TO THE SUN, by IKHNATON Poem Source First Line: Thy dawning is beautiful in the horizon of heaven [or, the sky] Last Line: For thou art aton of the day over the earth Subject(s): Sun HYMN TO THE SUN, by IKHNATON Poem Source First Line: A glory, %eternity in life Last Line: You %are Subject(s): Sun HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more. Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines HYMN TO THE SUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The fearful night sinks Last Line: With sparkling blows of light %you tear the black cloak Subject(s): Sun HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Last Line: The day being done. Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes I AM THE AUTUMNAL SUN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the constant music of my grief Subject(s): Autumn; Sun; Grief I KNOW THE WAY OF THE WILD BLUSH ROSE, by WILLARD EMERSON KEYES Poem Text First Line: I know the way of the wild blush rose Last Line: For the love of a maid is for aye and aye! Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Red (color); Roses; Summer; Sun I LEAN SUNWARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lean sunward all the year Last Line: To the light behind the sun! Subject(s): Sun; Trees I NEVER TOLD THE BURIED GOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "atropos"" decide" Subject(s): Sun; Light; Trith I WOULD BE THE SUN, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, the sun, I fain would be Last Line: Slowly, softly, to cease breathing. Subject(s): Sun ICARUS THOUGHT, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nature of a circle prevents it Last Line: And a dawn that looks like evening Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Sun IN MY GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through a rabbit's ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Rabbits; Sun IN NEW YORK: 1. ON SUNDAY MORNING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far from here the church bells ring Last Line: As she prays for her child. Subject(s): Bells; New York City; Religion; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology IN THE BARN-YARD'S SOUTHERLY CORNER, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost is white on the fodder-stack Last Line: In the barn-yard's southerly corner. Subject(s): Barns; Barnyards; Sun IN THE GARDEN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: I spied beside the garden bed Last Line: "as you smell sweet to me!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Sun IN THE GARDEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now I wish to pray and perform Last Line: Now the earth spins Subject(s): Sun INDIRECT LIGHTING, by ALICE CONE PERRY Poem Text First Line: We carry each a trembling flame Last Line: I might mistake it for the sun. Subject(s): Candles; Light; Sun INFINITY, by EDWIN N. ACKERMAN Poem Text First Line: To the ever-rising sun Last Line: From whence we glean infinity. Subject(s): Sun INTO SPACE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sad old world should jump a cog Last Line: While the stars looked on and wondered? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Stars; Sun; World IT BIDS PRETTY FAIR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Last Line: We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting Subject(s): Sun JOURNEY INTO THE EYE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having no choice but to go down, the sun Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Fish & Fishing; Sunset; Twilight; Anglers JUNE GHAZAL, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the sun a miner, a thief, a gambler Last Line: In silence to clear water. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sun LAST WORDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He left me for a foreign land Last Line: "shall beam upon us -- there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Sun; Tears LATE JUNE, by ROSANN KOZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Sad is the woman who wears pearls Last Line: Desire to cup the woman's chin and kiss the sadness %from her neck Subject(s): June; Sun; Women LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 7. MIDSUMMER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst early sink away the starry twins Last Line: Of glowing june. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Sun LE RAPPROCHEMENT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Sweet! I linger, but for thee Last Line: Pledge us a bright morrow's meeting. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sleep; Sun; Ocean LIGHT AND SHADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light! Emblem of all good and joy Last Line: The lord our everlasting light. Subject(s): Eyes; Lamps; Light; Sun; Vision LIGHTNING, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Mad thunder is a seamstress Last Line: But her knot of gold, the sun. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Sky; Sun; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Ocean LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is! Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers LOVE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daily tribute of the sun Last Line: Shall love its purposes fulfil. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While from the skies the ruddy sun descends Last Line: He shall adorn my songs, and tune my voice to love. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Singing & Singers; Sun; Youth MAGIC, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ran into the sunset light Last Line: Adored the risen spring. Subject(s): Spring; Sun MAN ON THE RAFT, by JONATHAN GALASSI Poem Source First Line: The man on the raft Last Line: Nothing left for him to do %but try again tomorrow Subject(s): Day; Evening; Life; Summer; Sun MAY-DAY, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear dawn of summer's rising sway Last Line: And the warmed world is sick with my sweet pains. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; May (month); Summer; Sun MEDITERRANEAN SUNS!, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of these resorts? %just climb down Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; Sun METRIC FIGURE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a bird in the poplars Last Line: Of leaves clashing in the wind. Subject(s): Sun MEXICAN NURSERY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Watch the sun sail Last Line: Over the trail Subject(s): Sun MIDDAY WITHOUT SHADOW, by YANN LOVELOCK Poem Source First Line: I say sun and mean %ripening fields, bread's wheel Last Line: Midday shimmers %beneath ashen mountains Subject(s): Shadows; Sun MIDSUMMER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wide still valley, placid and deep Last Line: A glamour of beauty too perfect to cease. Subject(s): Peace; Summer; Sun MOON AND THE CLOUD, by MARY MARIA COLLING Poem Source First Line: Full-orb'd in her splendour the moon rose on high Last Line: To an orb that's so great and so glorious as he Subject(s): Moon; Sun MORNING, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The wan light grows. In eastern skies afar Last Line: And lo! The day-god leaps above the hills. Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise MORNING GLORIES, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I have started them in flats, from a few Last Line: In pale sheets, spare as shepherd's purse, and tight Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Praise; Sun MORNING WINDOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brightest thing a house can do Last Line: Are scintillant to see! Subject(s): Morning; Sun; Windows MUSIC ON THE DESERT, by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY Poem Text First Line: The tumble-weeds whirl happily and spin Last Line: To the sudden drumming of the rain. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat; Sun MY FORMER LIFE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under vast colonnades that took the noon's Last Line: Athwart my brow with wafture of green palms. Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sun; Sunset; Twilight MY HOME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place that I love the best Last Line: The little brown house like a ground-bird's nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Summer; Sun MY STAR, by INA LADD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Once, in the velvet blackness of the night Last Line: To the glory of that star. Subject(s): Stars; Sun NARCOLEPSY, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun - like a sleepy giant Last Line: And all night - is quiet - in the woods Subject(s): Sun NEW MEXICO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun blazes in silence Last Line: Darkness and cold. Subject(s): New Mexico; Sun NORTHERN EARTH MOOD, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Vision the sun and stars Last Line: Shows the working of fingers. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Earth; Sun; World O LORD OF LIGHT! A MYSTIC SAGE RETURNS TO REALMS OF ETERNITY, by ASKIA M. TOURE Poem Source First Line: He is sun-bright myth and cosmic light Last Line: Into infinite realms of joy, mansions of the cosmic light Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sun Ra [herman Blount] (1914-1993) OCTOBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, gentle sunshine, stay Last Line: Shall pay you with a kiss. Subject(s): October; Sun; Wind OCTOBER'S SUN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O liberal sun in fair october's sky Last Line: Redeems the soul least worth to one most fair. Subject(s): Light; October; Sun ODE TO THE LATEST PRIMROSE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Last things are ever sad Last Line: New vital show! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sun; Dead, The OF A SUN SHE CAN REMEMBER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After they had been in the woods Last Line: The golden net of meaning in the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Light; Sun OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long time you have been making the trip Subject(s): Sun; Light; Colors; Hartford, Connecticut ON SEEING THE SUN SHINE ... MY WINDOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE YEAR, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text 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 ON THE SUN COMING OUT IN THE AFTERNOON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks all things have travelled since you shined Last Line: But in the shade I will believe what in the sun I loved. Subject(s): Sun ON THE WING, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little sun / silent on the table Last Line: Diaphanous arrival Subject(s): Sky; Vision; Sun ON THIS CONDITION, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Text First Line: Oh do I love you? Yes, to be brief and plain. Last Line: Then you may shine on me, being my sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Love; Sun ONCE IN A WHILE, by W. FRANCIS CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Once in a while the skies seem blue Last Line: Once in a while. Subject(s): Laughter; Light; Smiles; Sun ORFEU NEGRO, by MICHAEL SLORY Poem Source First Line: I shall sing %the sun up Last Line: Several drops of morning sun Subject(s): Morning; Sun ORGAN SONGS: REJOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice,' said the sun; 'I will make thee gay Last Line: "and man said, ""I rejoice." Subject(s): God; Happiness; Humanity; Night; Sun; Wind; Joy; Delight; Bedtime OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN IN 'CARTHON', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Thou that roll'st above thy glorious fire Last Line: Piercing like yours, like yours, alas! Unseen. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sun OUR SUN, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: This sun was mine and yours; we shared it Last Line: We don't have time. The messengers were right Subject(s): Sun OUT OF THE SUNSET MOVEMENT, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Out of the sunrisd invaion Subject(s): Sun OX-EYED DAISIES, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bonny things that ne'er have toiled not Last Line: And breathings even of the infinite. Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Sun PANEM ET CIRCENSES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crumbs of bitter comfort fall Last Line: "we were revenged before we died!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Life; Pleasure; Sun; Dead, The PARAGRAPHS OF THIRST, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Beast of the desert, sex. Expelled from joy. What does it still Last Line: Beast of the desert, butting against the wall Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Sun; Thirst PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun PATCHES OF GOLD FLARING UP UNEXPECTEDLY, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: Patches of gold flaring up unexpectedly Last Line: Silently very fast %tout autre part Subject(s): Beauty; Sun; Time; Water PATTERN OF THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To be a sun Variant Title(s): Poem: 1550; Poem: 158 Subject(s): Sun PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PENNSYLVANIA AUTUMN, by ELEANOR GARTLEY MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Gladly the sunshine rests its golden light Last Line: What glorious wealth the yellow sun imparts! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sun; Fall PHARMACIE DU SOLEIL, by HARRY STURGIS CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Calcium -- iron -- hydrogen -- sodium -- nickel Last Line: Ruthenium uranium Subject(s): Sun PHOTOHELIOGRAPH, by HARRY STURGIS CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Black black black black black Last Line: Black black black black black Subject(s): Sun PINDAR ON THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All-enlightening, all-beholding Last Line: Hurl destruction on mankind? Subject(s): Eclipses; Sun POEMS TO THE SUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All the cattle are resting in the fields Last Line: Your rays are in the middle of the great green sea Subject(s): Sun POET AND SCIENTIST, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Sunlit day and starlit night Last Line: But never care to measure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Light; Poetry & Poets; Science; Sun; Scientists PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters PRAISED BE THE SUN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in a world where life is born of death Last Line: O thou beloved sunlight, cover me! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Sun PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is life that we should love it Last Line: Ever glowing more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PRIMER, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The camel has a funny hump Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food And Eating; Sun RED SNAILS, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Mere pin points on the horizon Last Line: Red sails when the journey's done! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sun; Seamen; Sails; Ocean RENAISSANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Still we hear it Last Line: Of those that worship the sun! Subject(s): Immortality; Moon; Night; Prayer; Sun; Bedtime REQUIEM FOR A CROESUS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the moon was a silver dollar spun Last Line: With pennies on his eyes. Subject(s): Moon; Religion; Stars; Sun; Theology RIDDLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw a strange creature Last Line: Thereafter, where that strange creature went Subject(s): Moon; Riddles; Sun RIDDLE: DEW AND THE SUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I washed my face in water Last Line: That was neither wove nor spun Subject(s): Dew;riddles;sun RIDDLES OF MERLIN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking / alone by the sea Last Line: "sunrise for west." Subject(s): Dreams; Riddles; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; Ocean RIDING SONG, by ISIDOR SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: Oh sun, oh good comrade, good friend Last Line: Will be but a change of the weather. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Sun SALUTE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sun! Instigator of cocks Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Poe Subject(s): Sun SEA-PICTURES; FAR NIENTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft languors on the bosom of the deep Last Line: Between the day and me, and end it all. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Sea; Sun; Optimism; Ocean SEALED BY THE SUN, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: The seals by the sun are affixed on nature Last Line: We should thank it for having made itself visible Subject(s): Sun SEMPITERNAL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SERPENT SUN EYE BEWITCHING MY EYE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serpent sun eye bewitching my eye Last Line: The sugar in the word barzil deep in the marsh Subject(s): Sun SETTING SUN, by WILLA CALVERT SMITH Poem Text First Line: I saw you at your glory's height Last Line: Surrendered to the somber night. Subject(s): Sun SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE WORD, SELS., by HARRY STURGIS CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Take the word sun, which burns permanently in my brain Last Line: From swimming such as witchcraft for instance or the sorceress Subject(s): Sun SIMMER DIM, by JR. WILLIAM HENRY GREENWAY Poem Source First Line: On the longest day of the year Last Line: A day so long it never goes Subject(s): Day; Sun SLIPPED FROM THE CLOUD, by D. G. JONES Poem Source First Line: The moon, backlighting briefly Last Line: To mark the turn - and the salute Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Night; Sun SLOW SPRING, by ARDELL CARDON Poem Text First Line: Let march now blush with blossom brief and white Last Line: And hear the crashing thunder of desire. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Sun SOLAR, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: On a gray day, when the sun Last Line: I have to make all the difference Subject(s): Sun; Weather SOLSTICE, by GEORGE BILGERE Poem Source First Line: The sad light of winter afternoon Last Line: To their chests, safe in the huge heart of sears Subject(s): Moon; Sun SOLSTICE AS DEMON LOVER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You disappear again, december sun Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sun SOLSTICE AS DEMON LOVER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You disappear again, december sun Last Line: By renown. I need some music now Subject(s): Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sun SONG, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at me, sun, ere thou set Last Line: Kiss for good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Sun SONG FOR THE SUN THAT DISAPPEARED BEHIND THE RAIN CLOUDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The fire darkens, the wood turns black Last Line: Until the basket overflows with light Subject(s): Night; Sun SONG OF LIGHT, by PASCAL D'ANGELO Poem Text First Line: The sun robed with noons stands on the pulpit of heaven Last Line: Seeking in vain to be freed of its burden of splendor. Subject(s): Sun SONG OF THE SUN, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Supreme of the sky - no throne so high Last Line: But they quench not, they reach not the sun nor the soul. Subject(s): Sun SONG TO THE SUN, by GAVIN DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Welcome, the lord of light and lamp of day! Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Gawain Variant Title(s): Welcome To The Su Subject(s): Sun SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 1, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wise magician Last Line: My heart is happy on. Subject(s): Sun SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 116, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know how the great and golden sun Last Line: In the wonderful hills of sleep. Subject(s): Sun; Moon SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 29, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the kindled pines Last Line: And day is done. Subject(s): Sun SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 53, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the sun when he turns at night Last Line: That they can sleep so still. Subject(s): Wind; Sun SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONNETS; MORNING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful earth! O how can I refrain Last Line: And praise, through thee, the god that gave thee birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Morning; Nature; Sun; World SONNETS; TO THE SETTING SUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou central eye of god, whose lidless ball Last Line: Still bid my memory survive and bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Night; Sun; World; Bedtime SPRING EQUINOX, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not say, referring to the sun Last Line: Others will sense the simile - and say: %'we are turning towards the sun's indifferent ray' Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Sun SPRING FANTASIES: 5. ROAD SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wide and the wind smells sweet Last Line: Then, ho for the inn that welcomes all! Subject(s): Life; Roads; Singing & Singers; Sun; Paths; Trails; Songs STANZAS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature doth have her dawn each day, / but mine are far between Last Line: With fairest summer weather. Subject(s): Nature; Sun; Transcendentalism STILL BAKING DOWN, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The wind of autumn Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Sun STRAYED, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburned dryad of the lanes Last Line: For the swallows in the eaves. Subject(s): Dryads; Smoke; Sun SUMMER LIGHT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through the long day the hawk calls shrill Last Line: Deep in summer light. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer; Sun SUMMER OF '94, by ROBERT VANDERMOLEN Poem Source First Line: My legs were sore from swimming Last Line: A couple of times a week Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Summer; Sun; Swimming SUMMER PLACE: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm out front, first light spotted Last Line: In the water, turning it silver like a boiling chandelier Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Paintings And Painters; Summer; Sun SUMMER SUN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great is the sun, and wide [or, wise] he goes Last Line: The gardener of the world, he goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Garden Days: 4. Summer Sun Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sun SUN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, after winter's wrath what loveliness Last Line: Praise in his footprints, love in either hand Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sun SUN, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Write this. We have burned all their villages Subject(s): Language; Sun; Words; Vocabulary SUN, by PARK TU-JIN Poem Source First Line: Rise, fair sun. Rise Last Line: And I will live in peace and innocence as in a dream Subject(s): Sun SUN AND DUST, by RICARDO PALMA Poem Source First Line: In a swift whirlwind rises to the sky Last Line: Immortal is its light Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Immortality; Light; Sun SUN AS A SPINNING TOP: 3, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: Sun! Hub, wheel, cascades; girandole and noria Last Line: And only offer certain parts of my body to its golden rays Subject(s): Sun SUN DANCE (HIGH WOLDS), by DAVID+(2) WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Rag pyre Last Line: Of spectral dancers, %floating like thistle-down Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Sun SUN ENTITLES NATURE, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: The sun in its own manner entitles nature Last Line: Then the nocturnal outcry reverberates Subject(s): Sun SUN IMAGE, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun makes no shadows of leaf-shape Last Line: This freedom, at least, the grave will give you. Subject(s): Sun SUN LEVANTING ON LITERATURE, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: That the sun on the horizon of the text finally shows itself Last Line: Immediately dazzled and soon fired, coagukated like an egg Subject(s): Sun SUN MAY SPEED OR LOITER ON HIS WAY, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where nothing whispers that the past is flown Subject(s): Sun; Time SUN ON THE ROCKIES, by EDNA SWANSON KING Poem Text First Line: The long white fingers of the dawn Last Line: Ere night its mantle of darkness spreads. Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range; Sun SUN OR SATELLITE?, by MARY H. HULL Poem Text First Line: Shall we walk by the stars instead of the sun? Last Line: Love-light, as the compass, is guide night and day. Subject(s): Light; Love; Stars; Sun SUN SPOTS, by LAURA D. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: A yellow snake senses heat %and sheds skin in a rock crevice Last Line: Passing through close coral %in and out of sun spots Subject(s): Heat; Seashore; Sun; Waves SUN STORM, by TSERING WANGMO Poem Source First Line: Like brides behind veils, my people peep from drawn curtains and feel the air Last Line: With it all. It was all fate Subject(s): Storms; Sun SUN WORSHIPERS, by RUTH SCHERMERHORN Poem Text First Line: Some there be who seek a cool retreat Last Line: The little golden hammers of the sun. Subject(s): Sun SUN, DEAR SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sun, dear sun, that brings the day Last Line: Dear big, glad, round, shining sun! Subject(s): Sun SUN, WITH A MILLION EYES, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, with a million eyes: spyer of every window Last Line: There do we see but wanly one another. Subject(s): Sun SUN-WITCH TO THE SUN, by GEORGE HOWE Poem Source First Line: He wakens from the clover rick Last Line: O sun, my lover deified, %thou the bridegroom, I the bride Subject(s): Sun SUN: DAY, by BERT SCHIERBEEK Poem Source First Line: Sun comes up Last Line: Sheep sleep Subject(s): Sun SUNBATH, by SUE PAYNE Poem Source First Line: Baby oil slick on arms and legs Last Line: When I kiss her cheek, she whispers: %'I love you so much.' Subject(s): Love; Sun SUNDAY'S GIFT [FROM VAN GOGH'S CROWS OVER THE WHEAT FIELD], by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Like oedipus before him Last Line: In a flower or crowned %in a yellow kitchen chair Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Sun; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) SUNDOWN, by JR. JOSEPH G. HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: A globe of fire-glue drooped Last Line: Watching the sun go down Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Sun SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean SUNNING IN THE COURTYARD, NANNERL MOZART, 1829, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Neighbors passing through the courtyard Last Line: Show of resistance when snapped off Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Neighbors; Sun SUNRISE, by KATHARINE KOSMAK Poem Text First Line: I've never seen the great sun rise Last Line: And stoops to drink the seas. Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise SUNRISE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds are withdrawn Last Line: From his flooding, flaming crimson crest! Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sun; Sunrise SUNRISE, by DONALD R. STEELE Poem Text First Line: The eastern sky is filled Last Line: Dawn. Subject(s): Dawn; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunrise; Joy; Delight SUNSET, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: A daub of red against the blue Last Line: Then silence over all. Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET AND SUNRISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And when again in the east he shines Last Line: The day of resurrection Subject(s): Sun SUNSET AND SUNRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you how the sun rose Last Line: And led the flock away. Subject(s): Sun SUNSHINE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With never a cloud from north to south Last Line: Come, night, but bring nor moon nor stars. Subject(s): Sun SUNSHINE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The birds sing sweetly in the trees Last Line: Where grief and pain are found. Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Sun; Joy; Delight SUNSHINE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the white and blushing apple-blooms Last Line: Nothing is alien that is born of man! Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Sun; Joy; Delight SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's little sunshine in my heart Last Line: You, guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Sun SUNSHINE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows Last Line: Heart of my heart! Sunshine! I come -- I come -- . Subject(s): Sun SUPERFLUOUS WERE THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From an abundant sky Subject(s): Sun SUPERLATIVE, by HENRY B. WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: The sun one day said to the moon Last Line: "but the stars no man may count!" Subject(s): Moon; Stars; Sun TATTOO, by HARRY STURGIS CROSBY Poem Source First Line: I am the criminal whose chest is tattooed with a poinard Last Line: Let each tattoo a rising sun on our heart Subject(s): Sun; Tattoos TEWA SONG, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Above the lands Last Line: Moon old man! Subject(s): Moon; Sun THAW: SUN MELTING ICE AT 12 DEGREES F, by JAMES S. PROFFITT Poem Source First Line: In fields there are stalks, husks, cobs Last Line: All the glory of ice, murmuring, strangely undoing Subject(s): Ice; Sun THE ADORATION OF DISK BY KING AKHNATEN AND PRINCESS NEFER NEFERIU ATEN, by AKHENATEN Poem Text First Line: Thy dawn, o ra, opens the new horizon Last Line: In the great dawn, then lift up me, thy son. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhnaten; Akhenaton Subject(s): Death; Sun; Dead, The THE APOTHECARY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sick earth, sick with winter Last Line: And the tongue to tell. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Sun; Drug Store; Apothecary THE BAKING OF A MAN, by D. E. WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Sun,' said old crow, with thunder scream that Last Line: Thus man came forth the chosen shade -- a noble, copper red! Subject(s): Legends; Sun THE BEAUTIFUL SUN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful sun! With thy golden rays Last Line: In our prayers every morning and night! Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Praise; Sun; Joy; Delight THE BLACK POINT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sun a man hath raised his eye Last Line: Unblinded face the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Pride; Sun; Youth; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE BOOK OF MYSTERIES: RITES FOR THE SUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fourth heaven heaven of the angels of the sun lies stretched out Last Line: Amen selah Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;sun; Judaism THE CLIFFSIDE PATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down Last Line: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. Subject(s): Sea; Sun; Wind; Ocean THE COMPLAINT OF LISA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no woman living that draws breath Last Line: Ere day be done, to seek the sunflower. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sun; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE CORN IS IN TASSEL, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corn is in tassel, and each tufted plume Last Line: The corn is in tassel, the year at its prime. Subject(s): August; Birds; Corn; Sun THE CURTAIN, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious weather / chantecler has called Last Line: And it is morning in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Light; Morning; Sun; Window Treatments; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes THE DAISY FOLLOWS SOFT THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Night's possibility! Subject(s): Daisies; Sun; Love THE DAYS OF SUN, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Childhood's days are days of sun Last Line: Wherethrough blithe footsteps skip and run! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence; Sun; Childhood THE DIALOGUE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine Last Line: Mean thee alone (my friend) in every deed. Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Sun; Human Race THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun; Agriculture; Farmers THE EYES OF THE EAST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I sing the east at sunset, the low east Last Line: With awe are holden and with strange surmise. Subject(s): Evening; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunset; Twilight; Songs THE FESTIVAL OF GIOVEDI GRASSO, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it means looking into the sun, the people can barely see Subject(s): Festivals; Sun; Fairs; Pageants THE FIRST KISS OF SUNSHINE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The first kiss of sunshine this morning came to me Last Line: In speaking of my treasure, my little sunshine boy. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Sun; Infants THE FORGING OF THE SUN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Undying sun of the years, pour forth thy blood Last Line: To be our song, our glory, and our fate. Subject(s): Sun THE FOUR WINDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The four winds blow across the sky Last Line: (love and life and death together!) Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Rain; Sun; Wind THE GLAD SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The glad sun goes across the sky Last Line: To bring us back the pleasant day Subject(s): Sun THE GLORY OF THE SUN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A little crocus woke from sleep Last Line: It waits the sun above. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Sun; The Resurrection THE HOUSE OF THE SUN, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doorways of the sun were closed; Subject(s): Sun THE INDIAN QUEEN: HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You to whom victory we owe Last Line: And by their loss of pow'r declare your own. Subject(s): Altars; Blood; Sacrifices; Sun THE LEAVES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dead leaves of the year are down! Last Line: Can the world end in a night? Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LIFE-FORCE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the sun I saw a bird Last Line: Against the sun. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Sun THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN AT SUNRISE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms Last Line: Bloom in the crystal air. Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Mountains; Sun; Sunrise; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE NEW ZEALOT TO THE SUN, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Persian, you rise Last Line: Elucidate your ray. Subject(s): Sun THE ONE THAT COULD REPEAT THE SUMMER DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His name — remain Subject(s): Sun; Evening THE PHANTOM COMPOSER, by IRENE DAKIN Poem Text First Line: The round silver disk of a cold sun Last Line: On the cold white keyboard of a winter's day. Subject(s): Shadows; Snow; Sun; Winter THE PLANET ON THE TABLE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ariel was glad he had written his poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sun THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE POET IN THE EAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet came to the land of the east Last Line: And the dream deceives no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sun; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: ATONEMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst died at midnight Last Line: Without, the sun and snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Penance; Sun; Dead, The THE RAPE OF THE MIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High o'er the clouds a sunbeam shone Last Line: In the sunbeam's passionate arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mist; Nature; Sun THE RECONCILIATION, by LAURA M. GREGG Poem Text First Line: The sun and april were at outs Last Line: Were gems for her adorning. Subject(s): April; Rain; Sun THE RISING SUN, by MARC ANTOINE GIRARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess of the rosy hue Last Line: Makes the eastern mountains bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint-amand, Sieur De; Girard, Antoine; Saint Amant, Marc Antoine Girard Subject(s): Love; Sun THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It tossed its head at the wooing breeze Last Line: Will hide in the leaves in wait for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Sun THE SHADOW LAND, by PEARL LENORE POLLARD CURRAN Poem Text First Line: Sunlight dancing, and the earth Last Line: May not be finished. Alternate Author Name(s): Worth, Patience Subject(s): Shadows; Sun THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was intoxication in the air Last Line: The world shook mystical in lambent bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Sun; Kisses THE SOLSEQUIUM, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like [lak] as the dumb solsequium, with care Last Line: Fareweill, with patience perforce till day. Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1) Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Mythology - Classical; Sun THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the south wind and the sun! Last Line: They laugh and sail away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Nature; Sun; Wind THE SPAN OF LIFE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rays that first salute the morn Last Line: Shall spring to life beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Graves; Life; Sun; Tombs; Tombstones THE STAR SIRIUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright sirius! That when orion pales Last Line: Has viewed and felt them sweep her as a lyre. Subject(s): Mythology; Stars; Sun THE SUN, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rises as of old, he flings Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Sun THE SUN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He waited in the sadness of the sun's intention Subject(s): Sun THE SUN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun comes forth - each mountain height Last Line: The sun of righteousness! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sun THE SUN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever seen Subject(s): Sun THE SUN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He prisons many a life indeed Last Line: Without the sesame of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sun THE SUN - A PRODIGAL, by JESSIE FLORENCE SPRINGER Poem Text First Line: The sun was prodigal tonight Last Line: The sun was prodigal tonight. Subject(s): Sun THE SUN AND THE MOON, by ZULA BENNINGTON GREENE Poem Text First Line: Take a lesson, my daughter, from the sun and the moon Last Line: Take a lesson, my daughter, from the sun and the moon. Subject(s): Moon; Sun THE SUN GOD, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the master of the sun. He stood Last Line: Expanded, whitening like the ocean foam. Subject(s): Sun THE SUN JUST TOUCHED THE MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Henceforth — her only one! Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Sun; Morning THE SUN KEPT SETTING - SETTING - STILL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm not afraid to know Subject(s): Sun; Death THE SUN LAY MOLTEN IN THE SEA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of gold and gold and gold and gold Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Sun; Sea THE SUN OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With morning's sun ascending Last Line: As day yields to the night. Subject(s): Day; Light; Lightning; Sun; Weather; Lightning Rods THE SUN OF MY SONGS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The birds are all a-singing Last Line: "bursting into blossoming." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Death; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sun; Dead, The THE SUN RISING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busy old fool, unruly sun Last Line: This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere. Subject(s): Dawn; Love - Erotic; Freedom; Love; Sun; Sunrise; Liberty THE SUN'S ECLIPSE -- JULY 8TH, 1842, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced Last Line: The thrilling joy, whose tears were on my cheek! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Eclipses; Sun; Dead, The; World THE SUN'S TRAVELS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is not a-bed, when I Last Line: Are getting up and being dressed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): The Sleepless Sun;a Child's Garden Of Verses: 29 Subject(s): Sun THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE SUNBEAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall Last Line: The faith touching all things with hues of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Sun; Women; Joy; Delight; Optimism THE SUNFLOWER WOMAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: As the sunflower here in this strange island Last Line: That part of me which is god. Subject(s): Happiness; Sun; Sunflowers; Joy; Delight THE SUNLIGHT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, the sunlight, / it cometh apace! Last Line: Of heavenly light. Subject(s): Day; Light; Sun; Waking THE SUNNY SOUTHLAND, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In our sunny southland / balmy breezes blow Last Line: This garden spot of ours. Subject(s): Southern States; Sun; South (u.s.) THE SUNSHINE HAS A PLEASANT WAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And fill the room with pretty light Subject(s): Sun THE THAW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime. Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World THE TWO VISIONS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A golden sun went down to-night Last Line: Not with the golden smiles and tender. Subject(s): Sun THE WHITE THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, teeming transients of the sun Last Line: Fixed in a white, immortal thought. Subject(s): Immortality; Sun; Thought; Thinking THE YELLOW CLOUD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A cloud, a yellow cloud, and deep and dense Last Line: No more I'll fear again. Fear is not real. Subject(s): Fear; Sun THE YELLOW MOON, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This long day has closed in a yellow moon Last Line: That over the poplars rises and leads? Subject(s): Love; Sun; Yellow (color) THE YOUTH WITH RED-GOLD HAIR, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gold-armoured ghost from the roman road Last Line: Forlorn.' Subject(s): Aging; Sun; Youth THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE SUN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing like the sun as the year dies Last Line: There's nothing like the sun till we are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): November; Sun THEY PRAISE THE SUN, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall the golden day discreetly pass? Last Line: Dark spaces intervene, but new suns rise. Subject(s): Sun THIS BAUBLE WAS PREFERRED OF BEES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It had created her Variant Title(s): Poem: 805; Poem: 86 Subject(s): Sun THROUGH DIM EYES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder? Last Line: Like a grand amen to a minor song. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Stars; Summer; Sun; Dead, The TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There comes a time when Last Line: Of the sun's perfect sense of timing Subject(s): Sun; Women TO INTERRUPT HIS YELLOW PLAN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A bomb -- to justify Variant Title(s): Poem: 591; Poem: 62 Subject(s): Sun TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Last Line: But nothing promised that is not performed Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO PAM AND A MARSHMALLOW, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: This, my own, is the season for growing Last Line: You cannot afford to miss even one. Subject(s): Growth; Summer; Sun TO THE SUMMER SUN (CORONADO), by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text 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 TO THE SUN, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou clear-brooding, in the seas of cloud Last Line: Life-knowing: we are unquiet, desire that peace Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Sun TO THE SUN, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: O sun, I love thee! Thou knowest how joyfully, when Last Line: Spreads its bright wings, joining earth with heaven Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Sun TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The larks are loud above our leagues of whin Last Line: Shines no less bright his full-sheaved harvest-home. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sun TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO), by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun Last Line: Aloof and silent. Subject(s): Markets; Mystery; Sun; Supermarkets TOWARD THE BOSOM OF THE SUN, by PARK TU-JIN Poem Source First Line: Behold the sun. Behold the sun blaze fire as it rises Last Line: Walk toward the bosom of the newly rising sun Subject(s): Sun TRAGEDIES: 7, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A rose-set cloud had kiss'd her cheek Last Line: And the bar of heaven closes at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Kisses; Lips; Night; Sun; Paradise; Bedtime TRANSFORMED, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black and naked branches Last Line: The sun will find your breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Sun TREAD THE DARK: 4. WITH THE SUN'S FIRE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you a horror to yourself? Last Line: With water, air, with dirt, with food %and with the sun's fore Subject(s): Sun TRIADS: 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the sun to the sky Last Line: Who knows all three? Subject(s): Life; Nature; Secrets; Sun TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 2. THE QUEEN'S PLEASANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night arose the second day Last Line: And all the sea lay subject to the sun. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Morning; Sea; Sun; Ocean TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun woke me this morning loud Last Line: Darkly he rose, and then I slept Subject(s): Fire Island; Sun TWO LEADING LIGHTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never happen to contrast Last Line: Presuming on her femininity Subject(s): Moon; Sun TWO LEADING LIGHTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never happen to contrast Last Line: An irresponsible divinity %presuming on her femininity Subject(s): Moon; Sun TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings Last Line: Or day or night be there. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs UNSTILL UNIVERSE, by LUCIO PICCOLO Poem Source First Line: Unstill universe of gusts Last Line: In the unforseen burst from the march sun Subject(s): Sun; Universe VIOLIN SONGS: SPRING SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days of old, / ye are not dead, though gone from me Last Line: The days of old come back to me Subject(s): Spring; Sun WAKING UP, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daylight leaks in, and sluggishly I surface Last Line: Of my own name and all that I have been! %if only morning meant oblivion! Subject(s): Morning; Sun WEE DAVIE DAYLICHT, by ROBERT TENNANT Poem Text First Line: Wee davie daylicht keeks owre the sea Last Line: In amang the rosy clouds, far ayont the sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise WHEN WE SAY GOODBYE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not because we are going Last Line: As we enter the intolerable sunlight that never grows old or kind Subject(s): Farewell; Sun; Parting WHITE DEATH, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought the world was bound with final frost Last Line: All darkness rendered shelterless and pale. Subject(s): Death; Frost; Sun; Dead, The WHY I WAKE EARLY, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello, sun in my face Subject(s): Morning; Sun WISHES, by CARLOS PELLICER Poem Source First Line: Tropics, why did you give me Last Line: Tropics, why did you give me %these hands brimming with color! Subject(s): Summer; Sun; Wishes WITH THE SUN'S FIRE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you a horror to yourself? Last Line: And with the sun's fire Subject(s): Sun YOUR LEFT SHOE IS ALWAYS COLDER, THE SUN, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Born already grieving, one finally behind the other Subject(s): Grief; Shoes; Sun |
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