| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | The Sun-God | | By Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | I SAW the Master of the Sun. He stood | |
| High in his luminous car, himself more bright; | |
| An Archer of immeasurable might: | |
| On his left shoulder hung his quiver’d load; | |
| Spurn’d by his steeds the eastern mountains glow’d; | 5 |
| Forward his eagle eye and bow of Light | |
| He bent, and while both hands that arch embow’d, | |
| Shaft after shaft pursued the flying night. | |
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| No wings profaned that godlike form: around | |
| His neck high-held an ever-moving crowd | 10 |
| Of locks hung glistening: while such perfect sound | |
| Fell from his bowstring that th’ ethereal dome | |
| Thrill’d as a dew-drop; and each passing cloud | |
| Expanded, whitening like the ocean foam. | | | | |
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