IF, when the sun at noon displays His brighter rays, Thou but appear, He then, all pale with shame and fear, Quencheth his light, Hides his dark brow, flies from thy sight, And grows more dim, Compar'd to thee, than stars to him. If thou but show thy face again, When darkness doth at midnight reign, The darkness flies, and light is hurl'd Round about the silent world: So as alike thou driv'st away Both light and darkness, night and day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXPOSED NEST by ROBERT FROST CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS; OR, NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND by ROBERT BROWNING SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON INSOMNIA by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING by ISAAC WATTS |