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IN DEEP SLEEP by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN DEEP SLEEP I HAD FORGOT
Last Line: WOULDST GRIEVE ME SO.
Subject(s): SLEEP;

In deep sleep I had forgot
All that thou hadst taught of care;
Now, alas! remembered not
Is the dream I dreamed there:
Roses die
When summer goes,
Dream is but
A fading rose.

O what sorcery is this --
Thou whom I have banished
Should into my sleep arise,
Yet by dawn have vanished!
Waking, sleeping,
This I know --
Only thou
Wouldst grieve me so.



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