Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest | | Invocation to Sleep | | John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| | From “Valentinian”
COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving | |
| Lock me in delight awhile; | |
| Let some pleasing dreams beguile | |
| All my fancies, that from thence | |
| I may feel an influence, | 5 |
| All my powers of care bereaving! | |
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| Though but a shadow, but a sliding, | |
| Let me know some little joy! | |
| We that suffer long annoy | |
| Are contented with a thought, | 10 |
| Through an idle fancy wrought: | |
| O, let my joys have some abiding! | | | | |
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