This is one of my favorite poems. I love how it describes the passage of time--in hours, years, and epochs--in the rotation of the earth. I always think of it this time of year. I hope you enjoy it, too.
You, Andrew Marvell
by Archibald MacLeish
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth’s noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the