| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XLIX. Care-charmer Sleep! Son of the sable Night! | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | CARE-CHARMER Sleep! Son of the sable Night! | |
| Brother to Death! In silent darkness, born! | |
| Relieve my anguish, and restore the light! | |
| With dark forgetting of my cares, return! | |
| And let the day be time enough to mourn | 5 |
| The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth! | |
| Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn, | |
| Without the torment of the night’s untruth! | |
| Cease, Dreams! th’imag’ry of our day desires, | |
| To model forth the passions of the morrow! | 10 |
| Never let rising sun approve you liars! | |
| To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow. | |
| Still let me sleep! embracing clouds in vain; | |
| And never wake to feel the day’s disdain. | | | | |
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