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Subject: SUNDIALS
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First Line: Hours fly
Last Line: Time is not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time


GARDEN SUNDIAL, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5/ 6
Last Line: Words in acknowledgement
Subject(s): Sundials


INSCRIPTION ON A SUN-DIAL, FOR DR. HENRY I. BOWDITCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With warning hand I mark time's rapid flight
Last Line: There's light above me by the shade below.
Subject(s): God; Sundials


MOTTO ON A SUNDIAL AT ADDINGTON, SURREY, 1665, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amuddst ye fflowres
Last Line: So man shall ryse %above ye skies
Subject(s): Sundials


MOTTO ON THE SUNDIAL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is september and the wry corn rattles
Last Line: Once it has spoken it shall never be silenced
Subject(s): Sundials


ON THE NEEDLE OF A SUN-DIAL, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold this needle when the artick [artic] stone
Last Line: In any object but his heaven, his god.
Subject(s): Faith; Sundials; Belief; Creed


THE MOTTO ON THE SUNDIAL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is september and the wry corn rattles
Last Line: Once it has been spoken it shall never be silenced
Subject(s): Sundials


THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God set the sun in the sky
Last Line: How long it takes a rose to grow.
Subject(s): Sundials


THE SONG OF THE DIAL, by PETER AIREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dial faced the summer sun
Last Line: "I only count the shining hours."
Alternate Author Name(s): Luftig, P.; Born, Furness; Flam, Philander
Subject(s): Sundials


THE SUN-DIAL AT MORVEN; FOR BAYARD AND HELEN STOCKTON, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hundred years of blessing I record
Last Line: To mark for morven many sunlit hours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Sundials; Time


THE SUN-DIAL AT WELLS COLLEGE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadow by my finger cast
Last Line: The now on which the shadow stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time


THE SUNDIAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain
Last Line: A small gray spot, -- the record of a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sundials; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SUNDIAL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One summer day, / I stood beside a sundial; - tombs around
Last Line: They merge with it and lose their heaven-wings!
Subject(s): Life; Sundials; Time


TO THE SUN-DIAL, by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou silent herald of time's silent flight!
Last Line: Aspiring still, with energy sublime, %by virtuous deeds to give eternity to time
Subject(s): Sundials; Time


VARIATION ON A SUNDIAL, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time I ever got a really good fix on time
Last Line: And from such omissions, the decades would evolve
Subject(s): Sundials