Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
-- Speaker (Lines 1 – 3)

Importance: These are the opening lines of the poem, and they help establish the speaker's initial problem he hopes to solve: the knowledge that, with the rising sun, he will have to get up and part from his beloved. The speaker adopts a critical and frustrated attitude toward the sun in order to emphasize the idealistic vision he has of his love.

Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
-- Speaker (Line 4)

Importance: Here, the speaker asks the sun whether lovers must obey the rules of time and space that the sun represents. The speaker thinks that, while certain people need the sun to organize their day, lovers should be exempt from this rule. In this quotation, the speaker starts to acknowledge his desire to shift the order of the universe to accommodate his love.

Love, all alike...
-- Speaker (Lines 9 – 10)