Careful Words

sunny (adj.)

Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,

Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Beppo. Stanza 45.

From Greenland's icy mountains,

From India's coral strand,

Where Afric's sunny fountains

Roll down their golden sand.

Reginald Heber (1783-1826): Missionary Hymn.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks

To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859): The Story of Rimini.

Oh would I were a boy again,

When life seemed formed of sunny years,

And all the heart then knew of pain

Was wept away in transient tears!

Mark Lemon (1809-1870): Oh would I were a Boy again.