Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer, and night's dank dew to dry ...
Such wealth and brilliance of personification was not found again until Goethe, Byron, and Shelley.
He is unusually rich in descriptive phrases:
The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And by the bright track of his golden car
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
The worshipp'd Sun
Peered forth the golden window of the East.
The all-cheering sun