The Sun Rising
Daylight gets through the curtains and the speaker turns on it — busy old fool, unruly, told to go chide late schoolboys and sour prentices and call country ants to harvest, since hours and days and months are the rags of time and no business of lovers. The argument then reverses on itself: the woman in the bed is all states and he all princes, the Indies of spice and mine are here rather than where the sun left them, and an elderly star wanting an easy round need only shine on this room to warm the world. The most swaggering thing in the Songs and Sonnets, and the poem usually produced first when the metaphysical conceit has to be explained.
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