Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY MOTHER SLEEPING, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, my mother! Sweet and innocent dreams Last Line: O model most beloved of good and wise. Subject(s): Mothers | ||||||||
SLEEP on, my mother! sweet and innocent dreams Attend thee, best and dearest! Dreams that gild Life's clouds like setting suns, with pleasures filled, And saintly joy, such as thy mind beseems,-- Thy mind where never stormy passion gleams Where their soft nest the dovelike virtues build; And calmest thoughts, like violets distilled, Their fragrance mingle with bright wisdom's beams. Sleep on, sweet mother! not the lily's bell So sweet; not the enamored west wind's sighs That shake the dewdrop from her snowy cell So gentle, not that dewdrop ere it flies So pure. E'en slumber loves with thee to dwell, O model most beloved of good and wise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY MOTHER'S HANDS by ANDREW HUDGINS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH by JUDY JORDAN THE PAIDLIN' WEAN by ALEXANDER ANDERSON BLASTING FROM HEAVEN by PHILIP LEVINE ANTIGONE by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD |
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