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Marinda

Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions [by Mary Monck]
  

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Sonetto from Marini.

Soft Sleep, thou Son of Silence and of Night,
Parent of wild imaginary Forms,
Thro' whose dark quiet Paths the Lover oft
Straying does haply find his wish'd-for Bliss.
Now ev'ry Heart, but mine, in sweet Repose
Slumbers amidst these light and aery Shades;
Forsake thy closer Caverns, gentle Sleep,
Thy Grots Cimerian, gloomy as my Thoughts.
Approach me with thy lov'd Forgetfulness,
Bring that bright Form, whereon I joy to gaze,
Let it speak Comfort to my lone Desires.
But if to see the Semblance of the Fair
In thee's deny'd me, I at least shall find
The Image of that Death I long to meet.