Lyric Poem · For Kids
Summer Sun
1Great is the sun, and wide he goes
2Through empty heaven with repose;
3And in the blue and glowing days
4More thick than rain he showers his rays.
5Though closer still the blinds we pull
6To keep the shady parlour cool,
7Yet he will find a chink or two
8To slip his golden fingers through.
9The dusty attic spider-clad
10He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
11And through the broken edge of tiles
12Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
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“Summer Sun” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/summer-sun
Quick facts
- Poem
- Summer Sun
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 20 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- For Kids, Nature, Summer, Childhood
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 20 lines · 5 quatrains
- Line length
- Consistent with long metre. Four eight-syllable lines (8.8.8.8), the hymn stanza's longer cousin.
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBSummer Sun by robert-louis-stevenson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 6ed1caa129124955…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.