"Sleep is like death," and after sleep The world seems new begun, Its quiet purpose clear and deep, Its long-sought meaning won; White thoughts stand luminous and firm Like statues in the sun; Refresh'd from supersensuous founts The soul to blotless vision mounts. Sleep is like death .Is death like sleep? - A waftage through still time? And when its dreams of dawn shall peep What strange or alter'd clime Will they foreshow? No man may know; Though some few souls may climb So high as faintly to surmise The 'master-secret of the skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LIVING DEAD by RALPH CHAPLIN THE FAIREST THING IN MORTAL EYES by CHARLES D'ORLEANS A HOUSE by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE ANCESTRESS by MARGUERITE JANVRIN ADAMS SONG, FR. ARTAXERXES (OPERA) by THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE |