The Sun shone whole at intervals--/Then Half--then utter hid--/As if Himself were optional/And had Estates of Cloud/Sufficient to enfold Him/Eternally from view--
ATTRIBUTION:
Emily Dickinson (1831–1886), U.S. poet. “The Sun shone whole at intervals”: poem no. 606 in her Collected Poems, lines 9-14 (c. 1862).
