Chapter SUITOR to SUN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SUITOR to SUN

SUITOR.—Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried,
What hell it is, in suing long to bide:
To lose good days, that might be better spent;
To waste long nights in pensive discontent;
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow;
To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow;
To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares;
To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;
To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run;
To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.

Spenser.—Mother Hubbard’s Tale.

SUMMONS.—And then it started, like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 1. (Horatio to Bernardo and Marcellus.)

SUMMER.—Then, crown’d with flowery hay, came rural joy,
And summer, with his fervid-beaming eye.

Burns.—Brigs of Ayr.

From bright’ning fields of æther fair disclos’d,
Child of the sun, refulgent summer comes,
In pride of youth, and felt through nature’s depth.

Thomson.—Summer, Line 1.

Then came the jolly summer, being dight
In a thin silken cassock, coloured green,
That was unlined all, to be more light.

Spenser.—The Fairy Queen, Book VII. Canto 7.

SUN.—Till, as a giant strong, a bridegroom, gay,
The sun springs dancing through the gates of day.
He shakes his dewy locks, and hurls his beams
O’er the proud hills, and down the glowing streams:
His fiery coursers bound above the main,
And whirl the car along th’ ethereal plain;
The fiery coursers and the car display
A stream of glory and a flood of day.

Broome.—Paraphrase of Job.

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light,
And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

Pope.—The Iliad, Book VIII. Line 605.

At length the sun began to peep,
And gild the surface of the deep.

Somerville.—Fable IV. Canto 5.

That orbed continent, the fire
That severs day from night.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act V. Scene 1. (Viola to the Duke.)

The heavenly-harness’d team
Begins his golden progress in the east.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 1. (Glendower to Mortimer.)

High in his chariot glow’d the lamp of day.

Falconer.—The Shipwreck, Canto 1.

Yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.

Thomson.—Summer.