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When the Sun
Clearest shineth
Serenest in the heaven,
Quickly are obscured
All over the earth
Other stars.
Author: Alfred, the Great
Source: Consolation, (translation of Boethius)
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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as
pure as before.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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See the sun!
God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Mountain)
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The sun, centre and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Heaven)
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See the gold sunshine patching,
And streaming and streaking across
The gray-green oaks; and catching,
By its soft brown beard, the moss.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 409)
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Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes
down.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: The Cloud on the Way (l. 18)
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Make hay while the sun shines.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (st. 1, l. 268)
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
Is Nature's eye.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea (l. 165), from Ovid "Metamorphoses", bk. xiii
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Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Threnodia Augustalis
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High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
Author: William Falconer
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, III, l. 3)
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Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the
triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed
to be written in sunbeams.
Author: Frederic William Farrar
Source: Darkness and Dawn (chap. XLVI)
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Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.
Author: David Garrick
Source: On the Death of Henry Pelham
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In climes beyond the solar road.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Progress of Poesy
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Failing yet gracious,
Slow pacing, soon homing,
A patriarch that strolls
Through the tents of his children,
The sun as he journeys
His round on the lower
Ascents of the blue,
Washes the roofs
And the hillsides with clarity.
Author: William Ernest Henley
Source: Rhymes and Rhythms
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Father of rosy day,
No more thy clouds of incense rise;
But waking flow'rs,
At morning hours,
Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Hymn to the Sun (st. 4)
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She stood breast-high amid the corn,
Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,
Like the sweetheart of the sun,
Who many a glowing kiss had won.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Ruth
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The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.
Author: John Jortin
Source: Sermon
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When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon
But small, appear most long and terrible.
Author: Nathaniel Lee
Source: Oedipus, said to be written by Lee and Dryden
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues (p. 43)
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Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the
morning.
Author: James Macpherson
Source: Ossian--Carthon--Ossian's Address to the Sun
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Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest
forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky;
the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou,
thyself, movest alone.
Author: James Macpherson
Source: Ossian--Cathon--Ossian's Address to the Sun
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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
Author: John Milton
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 8)
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