The sun is but a morning star.
-Henry David Thoreau

The sun is new each day.
-Heraclitus

Rise up, O sun,
most glorious minister & light of day.
-William Blake

He [the sun]
gives light as soon as he arises.
-Benjamin Franklin

The sun rises
in spite of everything.
-David Whyte

When the sun rises,

it rises for everyone.

-Cuban Proverb

I fall back bedazzled at beholding myself all rosy red
At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.
-Edmund Rostand

I'll tell you how the sun rose -
A Ribbon at a time -
-Emily Dickinson

Above us the dawn becomes yellow.
The sunbeams stream forward.
-American Indian

The Sun sent out to work -
The Day went out to play.
-Emily Dickinson

Standing by my bed in gold sandals
Dawn that very moment awoke me
-Sappho

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning
-Mary Oliver

The window of my soul
I throw open to the sun.
-John Greenleaf Whittier

The sun is shining -
the sun is shining.
That is the Magic.
-Frances Burnett Hodgson

Today a new sun rises for me;
everything lives, everything is animated.
everything seems to speak to me of my passion,
everything invites me to cherish it.
-Ninon de l'Enclos

Again the sun! anew each day;
and new and new and new,
that comes into and steadies my soul.
-Marianne Moore

When the sun is shining
I can do anything;
no mountain is too high,
no trouble too difficult to overcome.
-Wilma Rudolph

Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you'll find her
A-sunning in the sun!
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

O Sun of Suns!
You are all energy,
give me energy.
You are all strength,
give me strength.
You are all powerful,
give me power.
-Yajur Veda

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
-Robert Herrick

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
Is Natures' eye.
-John Dryden

As when the golden sun salutes the morn,
And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,
Gallops the zodiac in his glistening coach,
And overlooks the highest-peering hills.
-William Shakespeare

The sun, which sees all things
and hears all things.
-William Shakespeare

O sun! of this great world
both eye and soul!
-John Milton

The sun with one eye
vieweth all the world.
-William Shakespeare

The sun is an eye
by whose light we see.
-Francis Huxley

I am a part of the sun
as my eye is a part of me.
-D. H. Lawrence

Mother, give me the sun.
-Henrik Ibsen

Give me the splendid silent sun
with all his beams full-dazzling.
-Walt Whitman

Suppose the chariot of the sun
were given to you,
what would you do?
-Ovid

As clear as is the summer's sun.
-William Shakespeare

As full of spirit as the month of May
as gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.
-William Shakespeare

Warm summer sun,
shine friendly here.
-Robert Richardson

The Sun, the heart of affection and life,
pours burning love on the delighted earth.
-Arthur Rimbaud

There are no days on which the sun does not shine.
Those identified with the sun see clouds from above.
-James Davis

The flower that follows the sun
does so even on cloudy days.
-Robert Leighton

The Sun shines
and does not take back its rays.
-Alice Howell

The sun is satisfied with days.
-Robert Frost

Two golden hours sometime between sunrise and sunset.
Both were set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
-Thomas Mann

The setting sun
has always set me to rights.
-John Keats

The sun will not rise, or set,
without my notice and thanks.
-Winslow Homer

Bring me the sunset in a cup.
-Emily Dickinson

I don't know what you could say about a day
in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
-John Glenn

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset
and the water caught fire.
-Pamela Hansford Johnson

The day begins to droop, -
Its course is done:
But nothing tells the place
Of the setting sun.
-Robert Bridges

A large red drop of sun
lingered on the horizon
and then dripped over
and was gone.
-John Steinbeck

So when the sun in bed,
Curtained with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
-John Milton

The sun was shining upon the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
the billows smooth and bright -
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
-Lewis Carroll

The sun stands at midnight, blood red,
on the mountains of the North.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I saw the Sun at midnight, rising red,
Deep-hued yet glowing, heavy with the stain
Of blood-compassion, and I saw It gain
Swiftly in size and growing till It spread
Over the stars; the heavens bowed their head
As from Its heart slow dripped a crimson rain,
Then a great tremor shook It, as of pain--
The night fell, moaning, as It hung there dead.
-Joseph Mary Plunkett