Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO SLEEP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: Come sleep, and kiss mine eyelids down
Last Line: For my poor sake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Sleep


COME Sleep, and kiss mine eyelids down;
Let me forget
Hope's treachery, and Fortune's frown,
And Life's vain fret.

And would you hold me fast, dear Sleep,
I need not wake,
Since they wake not who used to weep
For my poor sake.





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