Oh! My companion, oh! my sister Sleep! The valley is all before us, bear me on. High through the heaven of evening, hardly gone, Beyond the harbour lights, beyond the steep, Beyond the land and its lost benison To where, majestic on the darkening deep, The night comes forward from Mount Aurion, Oh! My companion, oh! my sister Sleep! Above the surf-line, into the night-breeze; Eastward above the ever-whispering seas; Down the warm airs with no more watch to keep. My day's run out and all its dooms are graven Oh! Dear Forerunner of Death and promise of haven Oh! My companion, oh! my sister Sleep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JACOB GODBEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MEETING AT NIGHT by ROBERT BROWNING A LITTLE DUTCH GARDEN by HARRIET WHITNEY DURBIN THE EMULATION by SARAH FYGE EGERTON WRITTEN [OR LINES] IN A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM by THOMAS HOOD TWICE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 10. THE PALATINE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |