English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 67. To Sleep |
| | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
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| CARE-CHARMER Sleep, son of the sable Night, | |
| Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, | |
| Relieve my languish, and restore the light; | |
| With dark forgetting of my care return. | |
| And let the day be time enough to mourn | 5 |
| The shipwreck of my illadventured youth: | |
| Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn, | |
| Without the torment of the night’s untruth. | |
| Cease, dreams, the images of 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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