Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; The little mouse cheeps plaintively, The night-bird in the chestnut tree-- They sing together, bird and mouse, In starlight, in darkness, lonely, sweet, The wild notes and the faint notes meet-- Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul. Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; Amid the lilies floats the moth, The mole along his galleries goeth In the dark earth; the summer moon Looks like a shepherd through the pane Seeking his feeble lamp again-- Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul. Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; Time comes to keep night-watch with thee, Nodding with roses; and the sea Saith "Peace! Peace!" amid his foam. "O be still!" The wind cries up the whispering hill-- Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GIANT RED WOMAN by CLARENCE MAJOR EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM by MATTHEW ARNOLD SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE by ROBERT HERRICK THE WIDOW'S MITE by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON IN THE HOSPITAL by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON |