Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG (3); SET BY MR. COLEMAN, by CHARLES COTTON


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First Line: See, how like twilight slumber falls
Last Line: That I may look on her, and live.
Subject(s): Coleman, Edward (d. 1669); Love


I

SEE, how like twilight slumber falls
T' obscure the glory of those balls,
And, as she sleeps,
See how light creeps
Thorough the chinks, and beautifies
The rayie fringe of her fair eyes.

II

Observe Love's feuds, how fast they fly,
To every heart, from her clos'd eye,
What then will she,
When waking, be?
A glowing light for all t' admire,
Such as would set the world on fire.

III

Then seal her eyelids, gentle Sleep,
Whiles cares of her mine open keep;
Lock up, I say
Those doors of day,
Which with the morn for lustre strive,
That I may look on her, and live.





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