eye of day

British  

noun

1. poetic the sun

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Example Sentences

She paints too, haunting mindscapes including a black and blood-red labyrinth of hospital beds and arched windows, entwined with the first lines of Thomas Hardy’s poem, The Darkling Thrush: “I leant upon a coppice gate when frost was spectre-gray. And winter’s dregs made desolate the weakening eye of day.”

From The Guardian

I leant upon a coppice gate     When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate     The weakening eye of day.

From Slate

All the confusion of a night combat now took place, the hurrying up by the dull and doubtful light; the cowardice that shows itself in many men when the eye of day is not upon them; the rashness and emotion of others, who indeed are not afraid, but only agitated; the mistakes of friends for foes, and foes for friends; the want of all knowledge of which party is successful in those points where the strife is going on at a distance.

From Project Gutenberg

Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day.

From Project Gutenberg

When I first beheld her, a stately tower of verdure, each cup, an imperial vestal, full-displayed to the eye of day, yet guarded from the too hasty touch even of the wind by its graceful decorums of firm, glistening, broad, green leaves, I stood astonished, as might a lover of music, who, after hearing in all his youth only the harp or the bugle, should be saluted, on entering some vast cathedral, by the full peal of its organ.

From Project Gutenberg