Meanings
- not comparablepoeticFull of sunshine; bright like the sun or shining with reflected sunlight.
And with our Sun-bright armour as we march, Weel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies That ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii1 more example
Have you heard, have you heard of the sunbright clime, Undimmed by sorrow, unhurt by time; Where age hath no power o'er the fadeless frame, Where the eye is fire and the heart is flame — Have you heard of that sunbright clime?
1868, “The Sunbright Clime”, in Jessie Oglethorpe: or The Story of a Daughter's Devotion and Other Tales, page 301
Origin
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