Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SLEEP, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: Men all, and birds, and creeping beasts
Last Line: That burgeons out of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Sleep


Men all, and birds, and creeping beasts,
When the dark of night is deep,
From the moving wonder of their lives
Commit themselves to sleep.

Without a thought, or fear, they shut
The narrow gates of sense;
Heedless and quiet, in slumber turn
Their strength to impotence.

The transient strangeness of the earth
Their spirits no more see:
Within a silent gloom withdrawn,
They slumber in secrecy.

Two worlds they have -- a globe forgot,
Wheeling from dark to light;
And all the enchanted realm of dream
That burgeons out of night.





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