I sought my first in starry skies.

What am I?

Cathy, of Emily Bronte's Wuthering heights. I'll get back after I've done some research

I liked the long post better, Kev.

After looking more closely SCoates, it doesn't work.

I havn't read wuthering heights and I wrongly assumed that Cathy and Heathcliffe were lovers in the full sense of the word, it seems they were soulmates from childhood, but not "in love" as we think of it, in which case my explanation falls flat. B*****s

I found a idea stated by Jan Merolant




L.

I sought my first in starry skies,
Where shines the april sun;
My second came before my eyes,
And warmed me to be done.
'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;
Once hills and fields were my delight,
Now I'm no more whole.

What am I?

Answer: one of the Three Biblical Wise Men!

I sought my first in starry skies,
(guidance from the star of Bethlehem)
Where shines the april sun;
(The Roman census was actually taken in spring, not December.)
My second came before my eyes,
And warmed me to be done.
(The direct encounter with the baby Jesus, a heart warming experience)
'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;
(They were presumably Zoroastrian magi who lost sight of their spiritual enlightenment when they returned to their own culture.)
Once hills and fields were my delight,
(the Xmas song, "We Three Kings" makes reference to "field" and "mountain" as they "traverse afar."
Now I'm no more whole.
(They split up on their journey home.)

I sought my first in starry skies,
Where shines the april sun;
My second came before my eyes,
And warmed me to be done.
'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;
Once hills and fields were my delight,
Now I'm no more whole.

What am I?

Answer: one of the Three Biblical Wise Men!

I sought my first in starry skies,
(guidance from the star of Bethlehem)
Where shines the april sun;
(The Roman census was actually taken in spring, not December.)
My second came before my eyes,
And warmed me to be done.
(The direct encounter with the baby Jesus, a heart warming experience)
'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;
(They were presumably Zoroastrian magi who lost sight of their spiritual enlightenment when they returned to their own culture.)
Once hills and fields were my delight,
(the Xmas song, "We Three Kings" makes reference to "field" and "mountain" as they "traverse afar."
Now I'm no more whole.
(They split up on their journey home.)

Chas, are you 100% that's it?

The answer could be eclipse:

I sought my first in starry skies,
(lunar eclipse)
Where shines the april sun;
(solar eclipse, during april in this case)
My second came before my eyes,
(lunar,solar)
And warned me to be done.
(in acient times, Egyptians believed eclipses were a sign that evil was coming)
'Tis very hard to close ones sight;
(eclipse is also defined as loss of light, or blindness)
I'm blind as bat or mole;
(staring at a solar eclipse can blind you)
Once hills and feilds were my delight,
(may be refering to a cycle of eclipses)
Now I'm no more whole.
(the eclipse has passed)

A train of thought here, not really a solution:

Cup of Sack?

Crater the Cup is another April constellation

Being sacked (fired) is being told to stop, and being hoodwinked (came before my eyes) is a way of being deceived.

Being blind could be blind drunk.

Whole could be a play of words on hole, or crater.



My other interpretation is some kind of loss of faith, but I haven't come up with any support for it yet.

I have finally settled on an answer for this one.
Going with the word warned instead of warmed I think the answer is a ramshead.



It is pretty obvious how you get ram from here.



Now taking warned as the word and thinking along Eos' line I get head, as in headmaster or head off.



Thinking of a ramshead as a mounted trophy, the animal is dead so therefore is now "blind", and...



Sheep like hills and fields and the ram in question is certainly not "whole" anymore.

Would like to know what you guys think.

Orgasm

Sought my first in stary skies
(sounds like a poets way of saying "I was horny")
Where shines the april sun
(april is in spring)
My second came before my eyes
(came)
And warned me to be done.
(Im usually done after 2 pops)
Tis very hard to lose ones site
im blind as bat or mole
(no need to explain that one)
Once hills and fields were my delight,
Now I'm no more my whole.
(fits perfectly)

I am reposting this because a new page just started and it got missed, (I think).

I have finally settled on an answer for this one.
Going with the word warned instead of warmed I think the answer is a ramshead.

Quote:
I sought my first in starry skies,
Where shines the april sun;


It is pretty obvious how you get ram from here.

Quote:
My second came before my eyes,
And warmed me to be done.



Now taking warned as the word and thinking along Eos' line I get head, as in headmaster or head off.

Quote:
'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;


Thinking of a ramshead as a mounted trophy, the animal is dead so therefore is now "blind", and...

Quote:
Once hills and fields were my delight,
Now I'm no more whole.


Sheep like hills and fields and the ram in question is certainly not "whole" anymore.

Would like to know what you guys think.

PS. Welcome to A2K Answerisorgasm, um, I like your answer.

Well, I'm not sure you're right, but I do like the idea of a flower of some type (ramshead is a kind of orchid).

are we sure this is a complete poem? when I first read this, I thought the vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

I sought my first in starry skies,
Where shines the april sun;
A - starry, april

My second came before my eyes,
And warned me to be done.
E - the two Es in eyes

'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;
I - lose one sight, i.e. eyes

Once hills and fields were my delight,
Now I'm no more whole.
O- whole

maybe the no longer whole part means missing the U.

just a thought...

I'm actually now convinced that the answer is the spring constellations.

I sought my first in starry skies,
Where shines the april sun;
-this is the Ram, as mentioned before, or Aries as its more commonly known. Aries is associated with spring (isn't Aries a december constellation though?)

My second came before my eyes,
And warned me to be done.
-this is Cancer, a March constellation, so it's sorta part of spring. Cancer in platonist philosophy was the Gate of Man through which souls passed from heaven to earth and into human bodies.

'Tis very hard to lose ones sight;
I'm blind as bat or mole;
- instead of meaning literally blind, it might mean blind to reason or crazy. If so, then this can be linked to another April constellation, Hydra. Hydra is Tiamat, the dragon of chaos.

Once hills and fields were my delight,
Now I'm no more whole.
-if whole is a play on words to mean hole as previously mentioned, then this might mean Crater, another April constellation.

This is sorta a stretch, but if you indent the second line for those 4 parts, then the first letter of each words going down spells 'wain'. What's wain? according to dictionary.com, Wain is the constellation Ursa Major (the big dipper), perhaps the most famous April constellation. Wain also means chariot, i.e. Auriga the Charioteer, a February constellation.

Thoughts?

I think...
I think Bluecapsule has it correct. If you take the last line to mean half of an O is a U, it makes sense. o = u.

Adrian, I like all of your solution except for the 'blind' part. Why would the riddle writer specifically put in something about losing one's sight if the thing were dead? A dead ram has lost its sight, but also its hearing, and sense of smell, and (obviously) lots of things. I hate these extremely old riddles. It's impossible to be sure you've come up with what would have been the answer back when it was written. Hell, the answer could be a word that's fallen out of English, like "ramfeezle".

... or rampike ("A standing dead tree or tree stump, especially one killed by fire.") or rampasture, or ramgunshoch....

Good point Eos. Both about the "blind" part and the "fallen out of use part".
I will keep nosing around, might find something eventually.

Cheers.