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Black pit cold and light-year
Flame tongue of the dragon
Licks the sun
The sun is but a morning star
(Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Burning (l. 33-36). . .
No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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The sun never gets tired of rising but sometimes a person gets tired of being under the sun.
(Simone Schwarz-Bart (b. 1938), Gaudeloupean author. The Bridge of Beyond, p. 166, Éditions du Seuil (1972).)
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For in his morning orison she loves the sun and the sun loves him.
(Christopher Smart (1722-1771), British poet. Jubilate Agno. . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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In that grave One
They spoke of the sun
And moon and stars,
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "I Will Sing You One-O....")
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Let the sun shine.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 159, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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The sun of this month cures all.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgments.")
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The Sun is satisfied with days.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Two Leading Lights.")
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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (l. 97-98). . .
Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
(Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet. The Landscape near an Aerodrome (l. 31). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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The sun cares nothing for illumination.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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