Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest | | Sleep | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
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COME, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, | |
| The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, | |
| The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, | |
| The indifferent judge between the high and low, | |
| With shield of proof shield me from out the prease 1 | 5 |
| Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw; | |
| O, make me in those civil wars to cease: | |
| I will good tribute pay, if thou do so. | |
| Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, | |
| A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light, | 10 |
| A rosy garland, and a weary head: | |
| And if these things, as being thine in right, | |
| Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me | |
| Livelier than elsewhere Stella’s image see. | |
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