The Effulgence Within: Busy Old Fool, Unruly Sun, Shine on Us and Thou Art Everywhere

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Friday, June 26, 2026

Busy Old Fool, Unruly Sun, Shine on Us and Thou Art Everywhere

John Donne 's " The Sunne Rising " (published 1633), is one of his classic poems on love's charm, set in the speaker's bedroom. Here, he, in a rhetorical manner, apostrophises, that is, addresses, the sun. Both he and his lover lay in bed presumably after a night of romantic passion, oblivious of... Sign in to see full entry.

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