Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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SONNET TO SLEEP. |
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SONNET TO SLEEP.
Sleep! let me feel thy precious calm at last,In my heart's heart—through all these throbbing veins
Diffused in lingering languishments!—thy chains
Of heavenliest link, around me lightly cast,
And wean my mind from memories of the Past,
My dreaming ear shall dwell on soothing strains,
A sound such as in the Ocean-shell remains,
How sweet when following the harsh howling blast—
And to the work-day task—the work-day care
Awhile I'll bid adieu—and when the ray
Of Morning o'er the horizon gleameth fair,
And through the half-closed shutters strives to play,
The parting-sweetness of charmed dreams shall bear
To after-hours a token of their sway.
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