| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | A Book of Sonnets | | Sleep |
| | | LULL me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound | |
| Seems from some faint Æolian harpstring caught; | |
| Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought | |
| As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound | |
| The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound; | 5 |
| For I am weary, and am overwrought | |
| With too much toil, with too much care distraught, | |
| And with the iron crown of anguish crowned. | |
| Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek, | |
| O peaceful Sleep! until from pain released | 10 |
| I breathe again uninterrupted breath! | |
| Ah, with what subtle meaning did the Greek | |
| Call thee the lesser mystery at the feast | |
| Whereof the greater mystery is death! | | | | |
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