The poem
WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod, --They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles solved years ago; And some words played between us to and fro-- On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of bitterness swept thereby Like an ominous bird a-wing....
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
No one has mentioned the absolute perfection of the line: "The sun was white, as though chidden of God." This works on more than one level--the dreary autumn day, with an overcast sky through which the sun shines dimly, a white sun. But, on a deeper level, the image of the sun losing its fiery glow because of God's anger, reflects the mood of the rejected lover--nature echoing his despair.
According to me the line"THE SUN WAS WHITE,AS THOUGH CHIDDEN OF GOD"means the light is not in a positive way.He also says that god is not looking favourably upon them.Basically chidden here means Rebuked or Scolden.