Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHEN SLEEP DELAYS, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: When sleep delays, yet thought is but a sorrow
Last Line: Of your devising.
Subject(s): Sleep


WHEN sleep delays, yet thought is but a sorrow,
You come in your dear image of the day,
Name of my ease, redemption of the morrow,
My shepherd's way.

Sweet visiting ghost, all's well. My midnight now
All gentleness I'll keep till the sun's rising,
Knowing that then a dawn will bless my brow
Of your devising.





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