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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SLEEP Matches Found: 1141 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SWING LOW, SWING LOW", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "my bairnie is sleeping, is sleeping" Subject(s): Sleep 3, by ESTHER TELLERMAN Poem Source First Line: Rammed clay area. %we traveled. Last Line: I will weave you %in stone %in new% sites. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Weariness 4 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What blandishments the world offers Last Line: The breathing out, the breathing in Subject(s): Dawn; Insomnia; Sleep; Waking A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hid my heart in a nest of roses Last Line: Only the song of a secret bird. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Nightmares A BIRTH-SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark sweet sleep Last Line: Guard and be gracious to the fair-named flower. Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Sleep; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nightmares A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fell on a summer's day Last Line: She sleeps every afternoon. Subject(s): Sleep A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOUTS-RIMES SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I grew half delirious and quite sick Last Line: Creature had love for me, and others spite. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness; Sleep; Dead, The; Illness A CHILD ASLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How he sleepeth, having drunken Last Line: Dare not bless him! But be blessed by his peace, and go in peace. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood A CHILD ASLEEP, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: He who plucked light Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I lay Last Line: Awake to thy eternal day! Amen. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Sleep A CHILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can lambkins do Last Line: Found for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Lampkins Subject(s): Cold; Sleep A COLLOQUY WITH GOD, by THOMAS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, like to the day Last Line: Sleep again, but wake for ever. Variant Title(s): Evening Hymn;before Sleep Subject(s): God; Sleep A CRADLE SONG (FOND NONSENSE), by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of pictures; but the dearest and the best Last Line: "hush-a-baby-by." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A CRADLE SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet dreams, form a shade / o'er my lovely infant's head Last Line: Heaven and earth to peace beguiles. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Mythology; Sleep; Nativity, The A DREAM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some perfect day I shall not need Last Line: Only that I have fallen asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares A DREAM, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more in any house can I be at peace Last Line: Daily; and here shall it be in the end,—or here?' Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read, before my eyelids dropt [or, dropped] their shade Last Line: Faints, faded by its heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Sea; Sleep; Women; Ocean A DREAM OF MOUNTAINEERING, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain Last Line: Between the two, I get as much as I lose. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dreams; Mountain Climbing; Sleep; Nightmares A GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep; Library; Librarians; Students A GIRL'S COMPLAINT TO HER HEART, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I felt a breeze blowing upon my brow Last Line: How may it hope for morning? It must die. Subject(s): Girls; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Optimism A GOOD NIGHT, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close now thine eyes, and rest secure Last Line: No sleepe so sweet as thine, no rest so sure. Subject(s): Sleep A GOOD SLEEP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do not need a bed of down Last Line: But -- add a bit of play! Subject(s): Sleep A GREAT DARK SLEEP, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A sorry story Subject(s): Sleep A HIDING-PLACE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where lies the lidded sleep Last Line: Sweet forgetfulness of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep A HOPELESS CASE (NYDIA), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I dream of that which cannot be Last Line: Shut in from cold and wind and storm of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares A HUM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now: sun through the blinds Subject(s): Sleep A LULLABY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, baby, hush-a-bye Last Line: Let your mother rest now. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants A LULLABY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've wandered all about the upland fallows Last Line: Sleep, liebchen, sleep, the stars are shooting. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime A LULLABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croon me a lullaby, / soothe me to rest Last Line: Soothe me to rest. Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A LULLABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, my little one, shadows are falling Last Line: Mother is near to thee—sleep, darling, sleep. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood A MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is over the horrible pain Last Line: Shall I joy with her joy in the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Martyrs; Sleep; Dead, The; Joy; Delight A MINUTE OF SILENCE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: I abandon this too powerful repose Last Line: The clouds kiss in a swoop. Subject(s): Abandonment; Dadaism; Night; Silence; Sleep; Desertion; Bedtime A MOTHER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, o mother! Forever I cry for you Last Line: "sleep, for thy mother bends over thee yet!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sleep A NIGHTPIECE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Endymion sleeps along the distant hills Last Line: That sweet strange wondrous consciousness of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Sleep A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has gone to her rest Last Line: Then shall ye sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness A NOON INTERVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky Last Line: The wand waves, and the dozer sinks away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Noon; Sleep; Summer; World A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset deepens in the west Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep! Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants A REPOSE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps among her pillows soft Last Line: The other when starry night returns. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Sleep A SLEEPING CHILD, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a thing of mortal birth Last Line: Yet shall thy image live for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Variant Title(s): To A Sleeping Child Subject(s): Sleep A SLEEPY SONG, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly swings on the flower alseep Last Line: Sleepy time, sleepy time now! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Sleep; Bugs A SLUMBER SONG, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, my darling! Stars are peeping Last Line: With the sound of dancing feet. Subject(s): Sleep A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!) Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs A VOLUNTEER'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago it was a bird Last Line: Than this dead boy! Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WATER-COLOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low hidden in among the forest Last Line: Were just romantic parcels of her dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Forests; Sleep; Woods A WINDOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I woke in the darkness Last Line: They were. But I remember Subject(s): Sleep; Windows ABANDON TO SLEEP...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: Clock in for real %the threat of awakening Subject(s): Abandonment; Sleep ABOUT MAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night nurse sleep held out her hand Last Line: Better another night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Sleep; Nightmares ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ADDRESS TO TEN THOUSAND FLEAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hence, ye disturbers of my sleep" Last Line: That I may have some sleep tomorrow Subject(s): Blood;fleas;sleep ADRIFT IN THE CARVEN ARK - BY THE WINDS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Sleep AENEID: DIDO'S LAST NIGHT, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twas dead of night, when weary bodies close Last Line: Despair and rage had some, but love the greater part Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Sleep AFTER A NOISY NIGHT, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man I love enters the kitchen Last Line: And kiss him, kiss him. Subject(s): Coffee; Gratitude; Habits; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Morning; Prayer; Sleep; Male-female Relations AFTER A ROUGH NIGHT IN THE MEDICINE WARD, by FREDERICK FOOTE Poem Source First Line: The little monsters are sleeping like the dead Last Line: And roll their stones away, and start to rise Subject(s): Children; Sleep AFTER BEDTIME, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little heads are sleeping all Last Line: Dreams have found another nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep AFTER SLEEP, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: He falls asleep in the afternoon. Meanwhile the clouds rise Last Line: Everything is fin-like, before the age of man Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banana-stuffed, the ape behind the brain Last Line: What shall the sleeps of heaven dream but time? Subject(s): Apes; Uncles; Food ^ Eating; Sleep AFTERMATH, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Measuring all things as a man, Last Line: Remind the sun of promises to keep. Subject(s): Dreams; Sex; Sleep AFTERWARDS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep: here's your bed ... You'll not come, any more, to ours Last Line: Run away, little comet's-hair-comber! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares AGAINST STEVENS, by STEPHEN MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Truth is I have not sentiments for sleep Last Line: That makes me whole, your words me wise Variant Title(s): Against Stevens (with Fondest Regard Subject(s): Sleep AIR, TO DREAM IN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave it leave it Last Line: A poem for you Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares ALASKA, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: With thy rugged, ice-girt shore Last Line: With his corn and wine. Subject(s): Alaska; Sleep ALASKA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rang in the middle of the fairbanks night and was always a Last Line: The beer is on us. Subject(s): Alaska; Dreams; Quilts; Sleep; Telephones; Nightmares ALBION'S ENGLAND, SELS., by WILLIAM WARNER Subject(s): England; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Sea; Sleep ALL THE NIGHT LONG I GRIEVE; AND WHEN I FALL, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Sleep ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, who now was half asleep Last Line: Here! Jonathan, your master's bottle. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Sleep; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a myrtle shade Last Line: Asleep or waking you must ease my pain. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 3 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs ALMOST WITHOUT A SURFACE, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes before / going to sleep a person Subject(s): Sleep ALSACE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are two skies but one hawk only Last Line: Mother sang to her hat same color as the car Subject(s): Sleep; Contentment AMARANTHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet quiet of death, made quieter by the sound Last Line: Robed by his hand in immortality. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mortality; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AMARYLLIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She sleeps; - amaryllis %modst flowerets is laid Last Line: Where roses and lilies %make the sweet shade Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Sleep AMONG THE ANTIQUE FIGURES (AT FLORENCE) THERE IS A, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep AMORIS EXSUL: 7. LOVE AND SLEEP, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have laid sorrow to sleep Last Line: Love sleeps. Subject(s): Love; Sleep AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AN ESCAPE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A swift dark dream from the outer lands Last Line: I wonder what he died of. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Escapes; Dead, The; Fugitives AN INVOCATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sleep, with mellow palms Last Line: And walled with harps, and roofed with crowns of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Sleep; Nightmares AN INVOCATION TO SLEEP, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, sleep! A mother wants thee Last Line: At the breast of sleep! Variant Title(s): Question Illustrated By Experience Subject(s): Sleep ANABASIS: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then we poised, in time's fullness brought Last Line: Blessed, among the many mansions Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought; Travel ANABASIS: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the first night and bare morning passed Last Line: The uncertain continent of a name Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Night; Sleep ANACONDA, by JUAN CARLOS GALEANO Poem Source First Line: An anaconda lives happily, wrapped around the body of a man %every night Last Line: Has to sleep. A snake has to sleep Subject(s): Animals; Night; Sleep; Snakes ANASTASIA AND THE SANDMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brow of a horse in that moment when Subject(s): Sleep; Stars ANASTASIA AND THE SANDMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brow of a horse in that moment when Last Line: Under the missing & innumerable stars Subject(s): Sleep; Stars AND LASTLY, WHEN THE EYES WITH SLEEP OPPRESS'D, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Sleep AND SURELY IT IS NOT A MELANCHOLY CONCEIT TO, by THOMAS BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep AND WHEN MY NIGHTLY COUCH I TRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep AND, WHILE THE BODY OF ALL MEN IS SUBJECT TO EVER-MASTER, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep ANGEL NOW NO LONGER DOTH REMAYNE, by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep ANNIE: MY CHILD LOVER, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me gently climb the stair Last Line: And god speak not a word to chide. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children - Lost; Girls; Rest; Silence; Sleep APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean APPARITION, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born from mud, sprung heavenwards Last Line: An immense bouquet of red roses Subject(s): Surrealism; Mud; Sleep AS SLEEP IS, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: As sleep is to a day Last Line: A tune—and then, to smile. Subject(s): Day; Life; Love; Love - Nature Of; Sleep AS THE GREAT DAYS FLOW, by ENRIQUE MOLINA Poem Source First Line: An ancient terror burns in things, a deep and secret sigh Last Line: As the great days flow across the changeless land Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep ASHES, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: The night splintered into stars Last Line: The night suffers Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep ASLEEP, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under his helmet, up against his pack Last Line: Than we who must awake, and waking, say alas! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The ASLEEP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, wake him not Last Line: Far, far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep ASLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waxen taper faintly gleamed Last Line: His quiet vigil kept. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Marriage; Sleep; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASLEEP, by WILLIAM WINTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He knelt beside her pillow, in the dead watch of the night Last Line: "and he said, ""my love was weary -- god bless her! She's asleep." Subject(s): Sleep ASLEEP, MY ZENO! WITH WHAT WANTON GRACE, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Sleep ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 32, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morpheus, the lively son of deadly sleep Last Line: Sweet stella's image I do steal to me.' Subject(s): Sleep ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 39, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come sleep! O sleep, the certain knot of peace Last Line: Livelier than elsewhere stella's image see. Variant Title(s): "song;sleep;to Sleep;""come Sleepe, O Sleepe, The Certaine Knot Of Peace""; Subject(s): Love; Sleep AT A POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT A TOMB, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep-ah, ah, who dares to waken me Last Line: In the grey twilight falling. Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Graves; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT BREAK OF DAY -- I WAS STILL ASLEEP, by FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDAO Poem Source Last Line: That had shattered the enigma of images Subject(s): Morning; Sleep; Water AT DAWN, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay awake and listened, ere the light Last Line: Said that bright song; and then I thought of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Bells; Sound; Sleep AT LYNMOUTH, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too have slept in lynmouth Last Line: For just one waking there! Subject(s): Lynmouth, England; Sleep AT MALYA, CRETE: 1959, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: In a dream agony your image rises Last Line: Our pleasure was another dreamer's pleasure Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep AT MIDSUMMER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been in the tall grass for hours Last Line: You smile and cross over me like a welcome storm. Subject(s): Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Appearances; Male-female Relations AT NIGHT, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Mamma, at night, puts out my light Last Line: My own mamma — and light. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Imagination; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Fancy; Bedtime AT NOON - AND MIDNIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the night, and yet no rest for him! Last Line: For god was with him, and he laid his face with hers and wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Noon; Sleep AT ONE AGAIN: 4. THE WAKING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his head the chafer hummeth Last Line: The dreamer hears it, and starts to wake Subject(s): Sleep; Waking AT SLUMBER TIME, by MAE WALLACE MACCASTLINE Poem Text First Line: So unafraid we trust our loved to sleep Last Line: "they do but sleep to waken with the light!" Subject(s): Sleep ATHEISM: ANNIHILATION, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch Last Line: And silence claims again her region cold and drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; World ATMAN OF SLEEP, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You had fallen asleep beside Last Line: Yours one breath for both of us Subject(s): Love; Sleep AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers Last Line: Each lugged an old bachelor home on her shoulder. Subject(s): Dreams; Single People; Sleep; Taxes; Nightmares; Bachelors; Unmarried People AULD DADDY DARKNESS, by JAMES FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Auld daddy darkness creeps frae his hole Last Line: Till wee davie daylicht comes keekin' owre the hill. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime AWAKE, SWEET LOVE! 'TIS TIME TO RISE, by HENRY YOULL Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep AWAKENING, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Laughter ends the beleaguered night Last Line: And ghosts are heavenly laid. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep AWAKENING, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: I go my way, alone and unafraid Last Line: Free demon's clutch, and follow love's command. Subject(s): Love; Sleep BABY JOHN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lazy sun is yawning as it hides behind the town Last Line: To see if you are sleeping, baby john. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants BARGAINS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have you in your basket Last Line: "who has half-an-hour or more to spend." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep BATTLE SLEEP, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, o sun, some corner there must be Last Line: And let some soul go seaward with that sail! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; World War I; Sunset; Twilight; First World War BED, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: I used to sleep in a bed my father made Last Line: Down, pages split, the frame holding his place Subject(s): Beds; Fathers; Sleep BED-MAKING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Sunday's chambermaid comes in love-sleepy Last Line: Or at least, the interruption of dreams %for one of us Subject(s): Beds; Sleep BED-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year my bed-time was at eight Last Line: "and it's time you went to bed!" Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Time; Childhood BEDTIME, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: And now ye day wch in ye morne was thine Last Line: And teach my owne, to follow thy sweet will. Subject(s): Prayer; Sleep; Wisdom BEDTIME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Usually I stay up late, my time Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sleep BEDTIME NOW!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little leaves, go to bed!' said the wind thro' the trees Last Line: But the leaves were too sleepy to hear what he said! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime BEDTIME RHYME, by JR. WALTER WANGERIN Poem Source First Line: Are you my strongest? Last Line: And here's the kiss to make you sleep. %goodnight Subject(s): God; Night; Sleep BEDTIME STORIES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, when I was a small, not Last Line: The sunlit seas to bring them dolls and christmas trees. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Night; Sleep; Bedtime BEFORE IT'S TIME TO GO TO BED, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: And slept and slept the winter away Subject(s): Sleep; Winter BEFORE RISING, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: A part of sleep escapes remembering Last Line: That could be taken up at any moment Subject(s): Sleep BEGINNINGS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I know nothing of that country, unless it be the narrow strip Last Line: Springs -- but by then I had already begun to move away from all beginnings Subject(s): Sleep BEING ON DUTY ALL NIGHT IN THE PALACE AND DREAMING OF HSIEN-YU TEMPLE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the western window I paused from writing rescripts Last Line: I still thought it the murmur of a mountain stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sleep; Temples; Mosques BELLS JANGLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie low-coiled in a nest of dreams Last Line: Where I neither sleep nor wake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares BELOW THE LIGHTHOUSE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I can be sure of my sleep Subject(s): Sleep BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep; Bedtime BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Last Line: Pause of blood between this time and another without measure Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep BIANCA: 6. SLEEP, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if tired out with kisses Last Line: And fell asleep upon my breast. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sleep BIOLUMINESCENCE: 2. LAMBERT, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, fire- / flies are startled by lightning Subject(s): Fireflies; Rain; Sleep; Glowworms BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more wine? Then we'll push back chairs and talk Last Line: And studied his last chapter of saint john. Subject(s): Religion; Sleep; Theology BLACK AFTER-SLEEP, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Joining the edge, white Last Line: The rain night saw in sight, %these words Subject(s): Sleep BLUES, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lazy, the laziest Last Line: Or open arms saying, I forgive you, all Subject(s): Indolence; Sleep; Conduct Of Life BODY, ALIVE, NOT DEAD BUT DORMANT, LIKE A CAVE THAT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Boat, oarless, unmoored, sand pouring out of a canvas bag Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Sleep BON-SOIR, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From / hedge / and / bank Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime BORDERLANDS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the evening Last Line: O hidden, o perfect, o desired! O first and final fair! Subject(s): Evening; Fear; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight BOY'S SLEEP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets Last Line: While I'm not paying attention. Subject(s): Boys; Rest; Sleep BOYISH SLEEP, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And all night long we lie in sleep Last Line: Its wrath is only lullaby, %a far off, vast and dim refrain Subject(s): Sleep BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from dawn till noon seems one long day Last Line: We've broken the day in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Day; Mothers; Sleep; Infants BREATHING, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: The night I scared awake in my sleep I rose Last Line: The sound of air erasing itself, %a car radio entering a tunnel Subject(s): Breath; Dreams; Sleep BREATHLESS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some like the mountains some like the seashore Last Line: And no dreams to frighten me anymore Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The BREATHLESS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some like the mountains some like the seashore Last Line: The roots of trees inching nearer %dream after dream parading slowly by Subject(s): Death; Sleep BRIEF ELEGY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every beautiful song is a promise of sleep Last Line: Sing to me, strolling through silent streets Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sleep BRIGHT HAIR, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: Amber, ripe rye, or honey full of light Last Line: Against her rosy heels. Subject(s): Hair; Sleep BROKEN HEART, BROKEN MACHINE, by RICHARD E. GRANT Poem Source First Line: Don't worry baby Last Line: Wrinkles up and pulls shabby tricks in the %guillotine hour %(don't worry baby) Subject(s): Sleep BROOM, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tommorrow waits with a big broom Subject(s): Silence; Sleep; Laughter BROWNING'S GARDEN AT CAMBERWELL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May makes her own blithe beauty, nor doth need Last Line: And may in camberwell recalls, and smiles. Variant Title(s): The Camberwell Garden Subject(s): Flowers; May (month); Sleep BULLETS, by VINCENT O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: I've heard bullets twice in my sleep- Last Line: The dream's resolution seems to be %back in the holds of sleep beyond recovery Subject(s): Bullets; Dreams; Sleep BUT AS WHEN SOME KIND NURSE DOTH SOMETIME KEEP, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Sleep BUT DREAM-APPEARING MOURNFUL FANTASIES, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep BUT SLEEP IS KINDLY EVEN IN HIS TRICKS; AND THE POETS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Sleep BY MORNING TWILIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, like a dying mother Last Line: With the song of the sea to the land. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean CAELIA: SONNETS: 6, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing soft, ye pretty birds, while caelia sleeps Last Line: And sleep for ever, for she cannot die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Sleep CALAMITOUS DREAMS, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: He dreamed the old woman he had jeered at in the street Last Line: He tried to answer, he felt his voice die in his throat Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep CAMARGUE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green moon blaze Last Line: On the lonf surge of sleep Subject(s): Love; Sleep CAMARGUE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green moon blaze Last Line: On the long surge of sleep Subject(s): Love; Sleep CHAMBER MUSIC: 22, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of that so sweet imprisonment Last Line: Where soul with soul lies prisoned. Subject(s): Sleep; Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 3, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that hour when all things have repose Last Line: And in the earth below. Subject(s): Love; Sleep CHAMBER MUSIC: 34, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep now, o sleep now Last Line: O you unquiet heart! Subject(s): Sleep; Winter; Kisses; Love; Peace CHARLES LAMB, by THOMAS DE QUINCEY Poem Source First Line: Over lamb, at this period of his life Subject(s): Sleep CHARM TO CALL SLEEP, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep, come to me, sleep Subject(s): Charms (magic); Sleep CHAUNTICLEAR DREAMS A DREADFUL DREAM ... REPLIES AS FOLLOWS, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allas! And conne ye been agast of swevenis Subject(s): Sleep CHILD ASLEEP, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who plucked light Last Line: Tumbling head over heels into the arms of light Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Children; Sleep CHILD ASLEEP, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: In the streets below Last Line: To touch the rippled surface of a dream Subject(s): Sleep CHILD WAKING, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The child sleeps in the daytime Last Line: High between dream and day, and think how there %the soul might rise visible as a flower Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Children; Sleep CHILDREN, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Here apostles %of my sleep Last Line: As I, %apocrypha of dreams. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep CHILDREN OF GRACE, ASLEEP, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: We never climbed beyond the town Last Line: Labored -- and lie. Subject(s): Children; Grace; Sleep; Childhood CHUANG TZU, by A. F. EHRENBURG Poem Text First Line: Night - in the narrow darkness of my garret Last Line: Or has a dream just vanished with the dawn? Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares CLOCK STRUCK TWELVE - AND TWELVES BLOWS OF A SPADE', by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And one fair morning you shall find your barque %moored to the other shore Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Sleep CLOSE TO ME, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Little fleece of my flesh Last Line: Sleep close to me! Subject(s): Sleep CLOSING CEREMONIES, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The band leaps into louie louie, and participants Last Line: Hurts my eyes. A yawn sneaks up. Christ, what a week! % let it be dark, I say, turn out the light, Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Parties; Singing And Singers; Sleep COME, HEAVY SLEEP, THE IMAGE OF TRUE DEATH, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep COMPENSATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea Last Line: Lay the foundations for one island more. Subject(s): God; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sleep; Ocean COMPLAINT OF FORGETTING THE DEAD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen / whose mothers are dead Last Line: They go. ... Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COMPLAINT TO FOUR ANGELS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night at sleepy-time Last Line: I'll sleep, and you adjust the covering Subject(s): Sleep CONFESSIO AMANTIS: BOOK 5, PART 3, by JOHN GOWER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forthi sche tauhte him hou he schal Last Line: Slepende, til that sche awok. Subject(s): Sleep CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 1. SLEEP, THE SUN IS SHINING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A lavender sky slathered above Last Line: Mud slides slide golden brown Subject(s): Sleep CONSOLING THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sleep as brutus slept of yore Last Line: Is not a den of murderers roman. Subject(s): Nations; Pride; Sleep; Thought; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking COOL FINGERS, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN Poem Text First Line: Once in the chill splendor of night Last Line: I slept. Subject(s): Sleep CORRODED AND GREENISH HULL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drowsy flight moves far, and fades in sun haze Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Sea; Sleep COUNTRY LIFE, SELS., by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that which most makes sweet thy Subject(s): Sleep CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lullaby! O lullaby! / baby, hush that little cry Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants CRADLE SONG, by MARY M. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Tis night on the mountain Last Line: Then, sleep, darling, sleep. Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Infants CREDO, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the end, then? Not a sigh, a kiss Last Line: In a cool meadow which salt winds leave wet. Subject(s): Life; Rest; Sleep CROWD ARE GONE, THE REVELLERS AT REST, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sleep CURIOUS BUILDER, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream in which a butterfly crashes Last Line: Whose memories with mine must therein rest Subject(s): Audiences; Books; Curiosities And Wonders; Dreams; Poetry And Poets; Sleep CYNTHIA SLEEPING IN A GARDEN; A SONNET, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near a cool fountain, on a rose-bed lay Last Line: Had in her sleeping eyes hid all his darts. Subject(s): Sleep DAME IRIS TAKES HER PALL WHEREIN A THOUSAND COLOURS WERE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Sleep DARK NIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in such a night Last Line: Like that night of the mind. Subject(s): Birds; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw thee gliding to my bed Last Line: "mother, and wife, and sister,—one in three!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death - Mothers; Sleep; Women; Dead, The DAWN, by ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGIVEN Poem Source First Line: Colorless dawns Last Line: Over the earth, and the air, and the sighing waves Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep DAWN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The languorous thighs of the morning Last Line: The women who forget they were ladies! Subject(s): Dawn; Sleep; Women; Sunrise DAY OR NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Again I wake and cry for light! Last Line: So bright these golden days! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blindness; Sleep; Visually Handicapped DAYTIME NAPS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother thinks that little chaps Last Line: But thanks me just for tryin' to.) Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Sleep; Childhood; Sleeplessness DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo' bed Last Line: Let de little pickaninny res'. Subject(s): Babies; Rest; Sleep; Infants DEAR DAY, DEAR NIGHT, by ELIZABETH BARNET TOLDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The silver dawn has been / dappled with golden dye Last Line: And after that, dear night! Subject(s): Day; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DEAR HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The touches of her hands are like Last Line: Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hands; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DEATH, by BILL KNOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest Last Line: It will look as though I am flying into myself. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek Last Line: Weep not as others weep. Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums DEATH'S ALLY, OBLIVION OF TEARS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a man of gingerbread that you should mould me to your liking? Last Line: The curtain falls. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Graves; Love; Physicians; Sleep; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Doctors DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our best will be to dream what we were Subject(s): Death; Sleep DEEP RAIN, by SHARON KOUROUS Poem Source First Line: Through all the steady night it enters dreams Last Line: The other drifts away. Time falls like deep %rain, and takes us as we sleep Subject(s): Sleep DEPARTURES, by CHARLES CLIFTON Poem Source First Line: After the day's work, the book Last Line: Emperor, and how they were received Subject(s): Books; Dreams; Sleep DEPRECIATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low, I listen in my grave Last Line: Cease, and let me sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep DID I KNOW YOU?, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Did I know you Last Line: That rise up from my sleep: %did I know you? Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought DOG DREAMING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paws twitch in a place of chasing Last Line: A sleeping beast knows who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; Sleep DR. WILLIAM MORTON, by CHARLES H. HOWE Poem Text First Line: Such pain men knew before he came to them Last Line: Gave holy, peaceful sleep when pain would prey. Subject(s): Pain; Sleep; Suffering; Misery DREAM 28, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ace high avenue queen of shades Last Line: And awake to find them full Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep DREAM BELOW THE SUN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Distantly, against the red afternoon, %windows in the great tower glitter Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Sleep DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM-EAZE, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't even hear the geese Subject(s): Sleep DREAMCATCHER, by SUSAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's catching the wrong ones, this twig curved Last Line: Watch, my wrist circled by the band's invisible curve Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep DREAMING, by GEORGE MCCALLA SPEARS Poem Text First Line: Dreams are the mists of thoughts Last Line: If sometime, sweetheart, you could dream of me! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares DREAMING OF CRAB, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: One night in nome Last Line: The crustaceans will sink, %at peace among their own Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nome, Alaska; Sleep DREAMING THAT I WENT WITH LI AND YU TO VISIT YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night I dreamt I was back in ch'ang-an Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Sleep DREAMING, SELS., by THOMAS DE QUINCEY Poem Source First Line: He whose talk is of oxen Subject(s): Sleep DREAMLAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In wonderful dreamland where lovers are free Last Line: Not only for time, but for eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Sleep; Nightmares DREAMLAND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from dreams of rare delight Last Line: And reawaken . . . Nevermore. Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: At night, on your way to listen to music Last Line: Like a ripe and heavy thought Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep DREAMS, by CHARLES COOPER Poem Source First Line: Crooked Last Line: Just like being %awake %ain't it %frederick Subject(s): Sleep DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the sun, rising in glory Last Line: Looking down on you and me. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares DREAMS EROTIC, DREAMS NOT, by NED O'GORMAN Poem Source First Line: The sheet was pulled tight Last Line: Or simply incontestable balking Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep DRIVEN, by RUSSELL BECKWITH Poem Text First Line: Where is she going, the woman with her cry Last Line: The lost beloved name -- she walks tonight. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The DURAND, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the ancient house of balbi Last Line: Through the empty halls of heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Sleep; Youth; Paradise DURAND OF BLONDEN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tow'rds the lofty walls of balbi, lo! Durand of blonden hies Last Line: "ever calling, ""blanca! Blanca!"" through the desert halls of heaven." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The low sweet melody of ancient song Last Line: Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs EARLY RISER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of the clock at 4 a.M. Last Line: Any mail herself. Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Day; Sleep; Time; Sunrise EARLY RISING, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the man who first invented sleep! Last Line: "the worm was punished, sir, for early rising!" Variant Title(s): Sleep Subject(s): Sleep EARLY TO BED, by JOY HEWITT MANN Poem Source First Line: There's a picture of me catching myself on Last Line: O'clock, and the house is so quiet Subject(s): Sleep EARTHWARD, by GRACE TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: I lay down on the forest floor Last Line: And finest veins of my loved maidenhair! Subject(s): Sleep EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 2ND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept last night Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Mothers; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The ELEGIAC SONNET: 11. TO SLEEP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, balmy sleep! Tired nature's soft resort! Last Line: To calm the anxious breast, to close the streaming eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Variant Title(s): To Sleep Subject(s): Sleep ELEGIAC SONNET: 38, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When welcome slumber sets my spirit free Last Line: She bids the truth recur -- with aggravated pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sleep ELEGY: 10. THE DREAME, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Image of her whom I love, more than she Last Line: Mad with much heart, then ideott with none. Variant Title(s): The Dream (image Of Her) Subject(s): Sleep ENDURANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I too could face death and never shrink Last Line: Thousands taste the full cup; who drains the lees? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ENERGY, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Is red beans Last Line: Before the train %is pacheco %playing with %bleeding %blue lips Subject(s): Sleep ENLACEMENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something holy about Last Line: Hands touching and holding Subject(s): Love; Sleep; Togetherness EPIGRAM: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest fast and I with woeful heart Last Line: Thou dreamest still which way my life to waste. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Sleep EPITAPH: 13, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke and called aloud but none replied Last Line: Dozed for an hour or so—then went to sleep. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sleep EPITAPH: 16, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His life was like white steel. A mind Last Line: Trusty watch about his sleep. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 23, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep Last Line: None knows—nor what death tells me now I'm dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 4, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though life was good Last Line: Have need of rest. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Rest; Sleep EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Subject(s): Sleep; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Last Line: I sleep because I am slain. They slew me because I slept Subject(s): Sleep; World War I ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk Last Line: And give me her little hand! Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EVENING, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From day's fair face the smile is gone Last Line: And lo, a jewelled coverlet o'er her they spread! Subject(s): Beds; Evening; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight EVENING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Evening now is closing Last Line: From my god alone Subject(s): Evening;rest;sleep; Sunset;twilight EVENING TRANQUILLITY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still this hour! The mellow sun Last Line: Grief's sail is furl'd for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility EVENING WITH LEE SHORE AND CLIFFS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-shimmer, faint haze, and far out a bird Last Line: Behind him not the sea's gaiety but its laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sleep EXPELLED, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gradually graduating Last Line: Intellects term, song! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sleep EYE THE RIVALING AREA, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: To commonly associated dark %phenomena Subject(s): Night; Sky; Sleep FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FALLING ASLEEP, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices moving about in the quiet house Last Line: I've known; all fading past me into peace. Subject(s): Sleep FALLING ASLEEP IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the bees have come to the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sleep FALLING ASLEEP OVER JAMES SCHUYLER, by STEPHEN SANDY Poem Source First Line: I was home early, had %this beef with someone awful Last Line: Dry like an excellent pie crust Subject(s): Sleep FALLING THROUGH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mystic dreamer, fierce and wild Last Line: He thought no more of power. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Sleep; Nightmares FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand Last Line: And it is day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue FATHOM PLUMAGE TO POWDER, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Savagery censors criteria, %darkened to curling fire candles Last Line: Flesh rays panic the signals %of copper osmosis Subject(s): Sleep FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones FEVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In your sleep you talked Last Line: I love you too. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Talk; Male-female Relations FINGER-PRINTER, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: I wake up in the middle of the night Last Line: And I go back to sleep into the darkness Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep FINITUDE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One ruby, amid a diamond spray of stars Last Line: And be forgot. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Sleep; Dead, The FLOATING LADY RETABLO: 2, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to read garden by the moon Last Line: Vamanos chuparosa we will be the stars' ashtray Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Night; Sleep FOR A CHILD: 2. NIGHT SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, our lord, and for thy peace Last Line: Be your great protection shed. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students FOR SLEEP WHEN OVERTIRED OR WORRIED, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cares and anxieties Last Line: I sleep ... I rest ... I sleep. Subject(s): Sleep FOR YOU THE NIGHT (THOUGHTS FOR A SLEEPING CHILD), by HELEN WALLER Poem Text First Line: For you the night is beautiful with stars Last Line: The darkness, so I dare not touch your hand. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood FORTY WINKS OF SLEEP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepy granther often thinks Last Line: Granther woke. And that's a fact! Subject(s): Sleep FOUR EXERCISES, by MARY SUE KOEPPEL Poem Source First Line: He sleeps with %glasses off Last Line: Pressed %to her lips Subject(s): Mankind; Sleep FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 348 FELLOWS, by MICHAEL MARTONE Poem Source First Line: There is a porch across the full front of the house. The door is to the right Last Line: Room, another bedroom where I fall asleep counting all the rooms in which %I have fallen asleep Subject(s): Houses; Sleep FRAGMENT: 58. NIGHT AND SLEEP, by ALCMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They sleep, the mountain crags and gullies Last Line: Too, birds with wide, cloud-tipped wings Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman Subject(s): Sleep FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SLEEPER'S COUNTENANCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There smiles methinks Last Line: And half-forgotten times. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SORROW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow! Hast thou seen sorrow asleep Last Line: Off her warm neck. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness FROM SAGESSE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber dark and deep Last Line: Silence, like the grave. Subject(s): Dreams; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares FROM SO GREAT ILLS RELEASE YE NOWE HIS BREST, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Sleep FULL MOON, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My problem is not enough Last Line: To another nightjar Subject(s): Sleep; Moon GARDEN CLOSES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth buffets and harasses Last Line: For solace and for sleep. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Sleep; World GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All things created, moses writes Subject(s): Country Life; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mnemonics; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible GENESIS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And the lord god caused a deep sleep Subject(s): Jews; Sleep GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I homeward went, and as soundly I slept Last Line: And I awoke from my slumbers. Subject(s): Dreams; Germany; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares; Germans GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Last Line: The corn king beckoning to his spring queen Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep GLIMPSE, by PEARL CLEAGE LOMAX Poem Source First Line: I saw you Last Line: I saw you %on my walk last %night. %running Subject(s): Sleep GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moments there are that loom up from the past Last Line: Radiant with dreams and ancient ecstasy. Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Soul; Temples; Ocean; Mosques GO TO BED ANYWAY, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing I will not sleep tonight Last Line: Tomorrow is a fiction %for those who need a dream Subject(s): Dreams; History; Sleep GO TO SLEEP, by ELLA WARNER FISHER Poem Text First Line: At the unseen portal waiting Last Line: Down the quiet aisles of sleep. Subject(s): Sleep GO TO SLEEP, by KARL SIMROCK Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep GOD TURN NOW EVERY DREME TO GOODE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep GOING TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light is fading down the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Sleep GOING TO SLEEP, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Source First Line: And if I do not go to sleep Subject(s): Sleep GOOD NIGHT, by M. E. H. EVERETTE Poem Text First Line: To all, 'good-night!' the touch of hands Last Line: None other heard! Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H. Subject(s): Sleep GOOD NIGHT! WHICH PUT THE CANDLE OUT?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To purer reveille! Subject(s): Night; Sleep GOOD-NIGHT, by DOROTHEA KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: I like to think the last sleep Last Line: And closed his eyes. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Sleep; Childhood GOOD-NIGHT MOTHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, mother. Thou dost sleep Last Line: Thine the slumber; mine, the night. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sleep; Dead, The; Parting GREEK FOLK LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o sleep, who takest little ones" Last Line: Ye dreams! Assist my song Subject(s): Sleep HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long day passes with its load of sorrow Last Line: The gift of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): God; Sleep HE SLEEPS - SLEEPS CALM, O YE ALL SEEING GODS!, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep HE THAT WILL INTENT TO TAKE HIS REST MUST GO TO BED, by ERNEST DE WITT BURTON Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep HE'S ASLEEP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone was ringing Last Line: In the room, except his wife Subject(s): Sleep; Marriage; Man-woman Relationships HELEN'S CUP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the potent draught that helen poured Last Line: Oh, let me drift and dream, and fall on sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sleep HENHOUSE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hens, arriving early from the day's pickings Last Line: Her fluttering eyelids shutting out the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Hens; Roosters; Sleep HENRY W. GRADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True-hearted friend of all Last Line: With the white splendor of thy prophecies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HERE SILKEN SLUMBER AND REFRESHING SLEEP, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Sleep HERONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was dreaming between hills Last Line: And night where I had lain all day Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Herons; Sleep HERSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When grace is given us ever to behold Last Line: O child, what news from heaven? Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Childhood HIGH SUMMER, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never wholly feel that summer is high Last Line: Each muscle sink to itself, and separately enjoy. Subject(s): Sleep HIS BED'S REPLY, by ? HADDON Poem Source First Line: That I maie be a rest of cares Last Line: So rest by me thou shalt obtain, %and much comfort have Subject(s): Sleep HIS WIDOW, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wreaths shrivelled and froze upon his grave Last Line: And slept -- and snored a little... Life isn't so bad. Subject(s): Funerals; Life; Sleep; Widows & Widowers; Burials HOLY MOTHER, MOTHER NIGHT!, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep HOME AND MOTHER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, my own darling Last Line: Ah me, but a mother is cumbered with cares!) Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood HOTELS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the semi-dark we take everything off Last Line: The bundled outlines of another woman another man %hurrying toward the theater's blue tubes of light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Beds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep HOUSE WITH YELLOW SMOKE SONNET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two daughters who seemed to be listening Last Line: Of her spine. Subject(s): Boredom; Daughters; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep; Ennui HOW GILBERT DIED, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never a stone at the sleeper's head Last Line: Can tell you how gilbert died. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HOW KIND IS SLEEP, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How kind is sleep, how merciful Last Line: To pierce me till I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sleep HOW M'GINNIS WENT MISSING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us cease our idle chatter Last Line: Going drifting out to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Rivers; Sea; Sleep; Tears; Destiny; Ocean HOW THE SESTINA (YAWN) WORKS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened this poem with a yawn Last Line: I choose all of you for my poem personally Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares HOW TO SLEEP, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child in the womb Last Line: And a loss of stature Subject(s): Sleep HOW TO SLEEP, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child in the womb Last Line: Must be won without pride, %with a nod from nature, %with a lack of strain, %and a loss of stature Subject(s): Sleep HUMAN IGNORANCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal knows Last Line: Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? Subject(s): Sleep HYPERION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Last Line: Celestial ---- Variant Title(s): The Fall Of The Titans;saturn Subject(s): Sleep I AM ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH NOW', by DAVID HELLMAN Poem Source Last Line: Scraper canyons of a city that never sleeps %everyone is asleep Subject(s): Earth; Sleep I COULD IN SLEEP, by JOHN RIBOVICH Poem Source First Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now Last Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now %and feel her warmth her back beneath her gown Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Touch (sense) I DIDN'T SLEEP, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep; Vietnamese Conflict I DREAM, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Life gallops by like a mad horse Last Line: I dream of her dead eyes. ... Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The quiet of my breast Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Sleep I FIGHT AGAINST YOU, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I fight against you while I am awake Last Line: It is on waking that I cease to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Sleep; Nightmares I HAD NO CAUSE TO BE AWAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I struggled — and was there Subject(s): Sabbath; Sleep I KNOW WHERE THE WINGED VISIONS DWELL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sleep I MET AT EVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met at eve the prince of sleep Last Line: Lovely in a lonely place. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sleep I PIERCED THE GROVE, AND IN ITS DEEPEST GLOOM, by PLATO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep I SHALL KNOW REST, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Rest, rest Last Line: Then, then comes the rest I seek! Subject(s): Death; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The I SLEEP , by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I uncoil myself and lie straight out Last Line: A beating heart Subject(s): Sleep I SLEEP SO THAT IN THE SILENCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To my dismay %a beating heart Subject(s): Sleep I SLEPT, AND BACK TO MY EARLY DAYS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Should revive what time destroys Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Sleep; Youth I WAKE TO THE TOUCH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, times out of dream Last Line: In the wild of america! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; United States I WANT TO SLEEP, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I shall be still stronger Last Line: Sink my being into my being: %sleep, sleep Subject(s): Sleep I WILL ASK, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you Last Line: Had awaked from sleep. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Sleep; Paradise I WOLE MAKE INVOCATION, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep I'M GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Teeth of flowers, hair of dew Last Line: Not to ask for me; tell him I have gone Subject(s): Farewell; Sleep I'VE SEEN SKIES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Their shadow an echo Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Sleep IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon Last Line: All of his new body away from me. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids IF THEY HUNTED WHILE WE SLEEP, by TINA KELLY Poem Source First Line: If we died only at night Last Line: Spreading around the brightening room Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep ILIA'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "then startled from her sleep, she spoke" Last Line: "until my sleep departed -- and, oh! My heart was sore" Subject(s): Dreams;sisters;sleep;tears; Nightmares ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ILLUMINATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed of you. I thought you came Last Line: "we both should cry, ""I dreamed a dream last night!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight IMPORTANT VOICE, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Quiet held the house, and all Last Line: Until the important cock had spoken? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Silence; Sleep; Voices IN A SLEEPER, 10 A.M., by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Lazy lady, languid loiterer Last Line: Half the queen I fancy you! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Idleness; Sleep; Women; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IN COLD BLOOD, by URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source First Line: Every night my love lies sleeping Last Line: Every night I rise and stand Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep IN DEEP SLEEP, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In deep sleep I had forgot Last Line: Wouldst grieve me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sleep IN GOD'S ACRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marmoreal hands across unbreathing breasts Last Line: Of souls who rest on the almighty arm! Subject(s): God; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Tears IN MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM INCHBOLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell: how should not such as thou fare well Last Line: Bid thee, beloved in life and death, farewell. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; Dead, The IN MY DREAMS, by ANNIE ELIZABETH LOOMIS Poem Text First Line: In that far off, mysterious realm which we call dreamland Last Line: Oh, blessed night, when I can sleep -- and dream -- and see! Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Sleep; Nightmares IN MY WINDOW-SEAT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting in my window-seat Last Line: And the world is very still. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime IN NEW YORK: 4. IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, groping / for delight Last Line: Not there? Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep; Wind; Bedtime IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness IN PURSUIT OF THE DREAM, by DIEGO URIBE Poem Source First Line: We are wooed by the rainbow light of eve Last Line: Cease weeping, and hope anew! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Silence; Sleep IN SICKNESS LIKE SLEEP, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is like this perhaps Last Line: Will gather us into its shade Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness IN SLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not drowsihood and dreams and mere idless Last Line: Rises a greatheart where a slave lay down. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Past; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares IN SLEEP, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt (no 'dream' awake - a dream indeed) Last Line: In those impassioned eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): God; Sleep IN SLUMBERLAND, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the road to slumberland? Last Line: While you are king in slumberland. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares IN THE DARKNESS OF THE DARKEST ROOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And my full gaze spills upon them Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Sleep IN THE DUNES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you close your eyes in such a silence, death Last Line: And that dry whisper as the sand in sleep keeps shifting Subject(s): Death; Dunes; Sleep IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's night, and no light Last Line: "go to sleep, my dear""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sleep; Time; Bedtime IN WET AND CLOUDY MISTS I SLOWLY RISE, by JOHN+(3) JONES Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep INCHES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On this grey day Last Line: Love at sleep is love at play Subject(s): Love; Sleep INSIDE EYES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am fast asleep at night Last Line: That waking up must be a dream! Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares INSOMNIA, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: How I envy the sleepers Last Line: They swerve towards me Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep INSOMNIA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The wide awake words are milling about Last Line: Spiraling toward the ecstasy %of night Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep INSOMNIA (2), by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though the house is deeply silent Last Line: The tiny hands that keep pointing this way and that Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA (2), by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though the house is deeply silent Last Line: The tiny hands that keep pointing this way and that Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep INSTANCE OF PROPORTIONS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The color exchanges %to make debt Subject(s): Sleep INTERMITTENT, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: You put out the moon your candle %in the darkness the highway's a curl of smoke Last Line: Or is it just the wind, a warm air mass, pressure, certain laws %a dragonfly ;lights on a sprinkler Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep INTRUDER, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: You enter my dream with a torch Last Line: In whirlwinds Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Sleep INVOCATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists INVOCATION TO SLEEP, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rest for all things. On still nights Last Line: Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! Subject(s): Sleep INVOCATION TO SLEEP, by CAROLINE LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh balm of nature to the mind opprest Last Line: Lull, with thy poppy wreath, my soul to rest! Subject(s): Rest; Sleep INVOCATION TO SLEEP, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! Who contractest the waste realms of night Last Line: Love frown, and drive me from his court. Subject(s): Sleep INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean IT IS A DELICIOUS MOMENT CERTAINLY - THAT OF BEING WELL, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Sleep IT IS FOR THE WAKING MAN TO TELL HIS DREAMS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stupors before sleep Last Line: Because the fool's awake Subject(s): Sleep IT IS NOT THE SHRINES OF THE GODS, NOR THE POWERS OF, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae Subject(s): Sleep IT SOUNDS IT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You & I out of all dreaming Last Line: This scheme Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking ITALIAN FOLK LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "slumber, sweet slumber" Last Line: Send him golden strength in slumber Subject(s): Sleep JUNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep JUST TIRED!, by JESSIE WARD-HAYWOOD Poem Text First Line: I'm tired! - just tired! / I'm hungry Last Line: Feeling dreamy now -- goodnight. Subject(s): Sleep KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones LAIRD BROOKS OF HODDAM'S GRAVE, by EDITH M. GILL Poem Text First Line: There's many a grave where in scotland I'd sleep Last Line: If I could get up now and then for a peep. Subject(s): Graves; Scotland; Sleep; Tombs; Tombstones LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps as a lamb sleeps Last Line: Feeds, and is clothed in white. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LAMIA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a time, before the faery broods Last Line: And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 7. SLEEPING, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: It is a good sound that she makes, the growling off-key wail that seems to Last Line: Finally drifting to sleep. 'I am alone again.' Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep LAST INCIDENT, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: In coma now / with no apparent breath Last Line: To keep her wedding ring. Subject(s): Sleep LAST NIGHT I DREAMED A DREAM, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Sleep LAST NIGHT WHILE I WAS SLEEPING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That it was god I held %inside my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep LAST THOUGHTS BEFORE SLEEP, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall awaken first,-the saucy quean Last Line: So warm and close, so close and so warm are you. Subject(s): Love; Presence; Sleep LAST VOYAGE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: So ran my dream Last Line: The city of my hope and dream ... Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility LATE NIGHT DREAM MOVIES; TO CHRISTOPHER TOLL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war beneath the seas / is quiet Last Line: That's an honest word. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LAURA SLEEPING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither and behold this lady's face Last Line: Thus, from the night, dawn's sunlit beauty breaks. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sleep LAURA SLEEPING; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winds whisper gently whilst she sleeps Last Line: And all mankind her creatures are. Subject(s): Love; Sleep LE RAPPROCHEMENT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Sweet! I linger, but for thee Last Line: Pledge us a bright morrow's meeting. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sleep; Sun; Ocean LET HER SLEEP!, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden corn is rustling and the / forest's shadow ceases Last Line: Nor think life's hand will fail to do its duty -- save in seeming. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood LET US LIE CLOSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let us lie close, as lovers should Last Line: And with one kiss prepare for sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Rest; Sleep LET'S DREAM, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: Let's dream today Last Line: And wild geese call. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LETRILLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the wind, mother %rustles the leaves Last Line: I am cradled in sleep %under shadowy trees Subject(s): Shadows; Sleep LETTERS ON LIFE AND THE MORNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said too late, too late, the work is done Last Line: And god comes down to him, and christ doth rise. Subject(s): God; Letters; Life; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Soul LIGHT SLEEPER, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: As all the ballast of familiar life Last Line: As all the ballast of familiar life Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Sleep LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I; First World War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Last Line: That I may lose my way %and myself Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I LIKE A DREAM (2), by NARA SINGDE Poem Source First Line: In thousands of tents the men are drunk Last Line: Go back to sleep understanding %that waking has no appeal Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Sleep LIMPIDITY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Do not stir up thy life's well, slumbering there! Last Line: Give us the flower, and leave the slime afar! Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Sleep LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JULY 1811, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A low dead thunder muttered thro' the night Last Line: & leave me dreaming. -- Subject(s): Sleep LISTENING, by MATA TRUE Poem Text First Line: My ear was tuned to listen for your step Last Line: Of this drear, aching void where lay my heart. Subject(s): Death; Night; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Bedtime LITTLE DAVID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother of the little boy that Last Line: In voiceless joy -- the little boy that sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood LOCH FIODIAG, by ANGELA GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ageless shadowy hills enfold it Last Line: Time forgets to awake from sleep. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Sleep; Pools; Ponds LONDON DURING PLAGUE, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long the solitary nights did last Subject(s): Sleep LONG LOOKED FOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the eye hardly sees Last Line: And even I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Peace; Sleep LORD JIM, SELS., by JOSEPH CONRAD Poem Source First Line: Jim on the bridge was penetrated by the Subject(s): Sleep LOVE AND SLEEP, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lying asleep between the strokes of night Last Line: And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Sleep LOVE IN HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child is rocked on mary's knees Last Line: "who lost thee yesterday but finds to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 17, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us sleep together here tonight Last Line: Our heads on the rocks Subject(s): Sleep; Togetherness LOVE'S LESSON, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon each month is blenched Last Line: Belongs infinity. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Sleep LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE AWAKENER, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Love, through the stars, swoop'd down the violet sky Last Line: And sleep for ever banish'd from his bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Sleep LOVE'S SLEEP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'll cover love with roses Last Line: "but sing, ""love, tra-la-lee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Sleep; Eros LULL, by PAVLO TYCHYNA Poem Source First Line: I sleep - I stir. I fulfill a will. Fill Last Line: With his uncomprehending eyes, and then unconsciously smelled %a flower, similar to a thistle Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep LULLABY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, lullay. / your treasures all Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep LULLABY, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Text First Line: They are fluttering and fluttering, like birds upon Last Line: Bye oh! Baby bye! Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LULLABY, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy head upon this pillow Last Line: Safe within a mother's love! Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Mothers; Infants LULLABY, by REMO BUFANO Poem Text First Line: Now that night has turned to jet Last Line: That eternally will pass. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime LULLABY, by ELOISE EVANS Poem Text First Line: Sandman's slippin' roun' de house Last Line: Go to sleep ma angel chile! Subject(s): Sleep LULLABY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, brown-eyed, sleep Last Line: The dew, only the dew. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LULLABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple strews the embers of its leaves Last Line: Till your own are wet above me when I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LULLABY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, slumber, little one, now Last Line: So lullaby! Subject(s): Sleep LULLABY FOR A DAUGHTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to sleep. Night is a coal pit Last Line: Her sweet subject, dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Sleep LULLABY FOR A TIRED LADY, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: Is there any need so deep Last Line: Distant, sober, uniform. Subject(s): Sleep; Spinsters; Old Maids LULLABY IN JANUARY, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bravely (it seems to me) you Subject(s): Winter; Sleep; Birthdays LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs LYING IN GRASS, by MELVILLE CANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: August / in high, dry grass Last Line: Into sleep holes. Subject(s): Sleep LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 66, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight was cold, in plaintive mood Last Line: They shook their heads with pity deep. Subject(s): Forests; Night; Sleep; Woods; Bedtime MAD TOM TATTERMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, grey man, good man scavenger, Last Line: "flocks are whiter than the flocks that all your shepherds keep." Subject(s): Babylon; Insanity; Sleep; Madness; Mental Illness MADRIGAL, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty and the life Last Line: Cried, ah! And can death enter paradise? Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world a hunting is Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts hold mortal strife Last Line: Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty and the life Last Line: Cried, ah! And can death enter paradise? Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Sleep MAGIC, AT HIS PLANETARY HOUR, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep MAMMY SUE, by MARY C. HERGET Poem Text First Line: In the dim days of the long ago Last Line: "hummin', hummin', hummin'." Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Household Employees; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Songs MAN SLEEPS, AND MAN ALONE; AND MAN WHOSE FATE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep MARCH, by BERTHA RAFFETTO Poem Text First Line: In mullioned pools of wildwood bowers Last Line: Are clutched in earth's cold fingers. Subject(s): Death; March (month); Sleep; Winter; Dead, The MATTHEW: THE GOSPEL OF SAINT MATTHEW, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: When he was set down on the judgment seat Subject(s): Sleep MEN IN NEW MEXICO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains blanket-wrapped Last Line: They can't get up, they are under the blanket Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Sleep MERRY ANDREW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sly merry andrew, the last southwark fair Last Line: Drive on (he cried); this fellow is no fool. Subject(s): Fools; Learning; Sleep; Idiots METAMORPHOSES: IRIS DESCENDS TO THE CAVE OF SLEEP, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the cymmerians, in his dark abode Last Line: (and asking yawn'd) for what intent she came Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Sleep MIDDNAY NAP, by PARK NAMSU Poem Source First Line: The deep green in rubbed Last Line: The maturing time ripens to fullness %in a middsay sleep Subject(s): Sleep MIDNIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flood of darkness overwhelms the land Last Line: In egypt, stem the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep MIDNIGHT CEREMONY, by LISA FURMANSKI Poem Source First Line: Rains end, the season to ascend Last Line: A ripple in distant, pillowed thoughts Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sleep MIDNIGHT MUSIC, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wakes me from my heavy sleep Last Line: Good night, o mother dear!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night; Sleep; Bedtime MIDNIGHT-BY THE OPEN WINDOW, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rapt the sleeping stillness of the / night Last Line: Roused from the sleepy comfort of his seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Time softens to silk now Last Line: Is wrapped in prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Sleep; Summer; Time MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I could not sleep for swift desire and longing Last Line: And dreaming thus, at last I drank -- and sleep came with the dawn. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Soul; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM OTT MUNSON Poem Text First Line: The calm moon lays her fingers chaste and cool Last Line: Beneath the soft rays of the moon's still light. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of you, to wake: would that I might Last Line: Though there be nothing new beneath the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Women - Heroes MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting universe of things Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy? Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips MOON BATHERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falls from her heaven the moon, and stars sink burning Last Line: So slowly, who shall say when light is gone? Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MOON-LIT MIST, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You woo me sleep, like an importunate lover Last Line: Through moon-lit mist would yield his soul to sleep? Subject(s): Sleep MOONLIGHT, by JACK RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Sleep, all around you! Last Line: Affected by the moon! Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Soul MOPSA THE FAIRY: WINDING-UP TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, baillie, wake! The crafts are out Last Line: Tick, tick, tick!' Variant Title(s): Sleep And Time Subject(s): Sleep; Time MORE HEALTHFUL THAN THE LEAFINESS OF DALES?, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king! Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World MORTALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I lain down at night Last Line: Remained afraid to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Mortality; Sleep; Dead, The MOST COMPLETE AND HEALTHY SLEEP THAT CAN BE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Sleep MOTHER'S FAREWELL, by JUAN ZORILLA DE SAN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep, my child! Behold, among the Last Line: And, while the clouds half opened, heaven smiled Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Sleep MOUNAIN-TOPS ARE ASLEEP, AND THE MOUNTAIN, by ALCMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman Subject(s): Sleep MOUNTAIN LIVING: 13, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: A quiet night Last Line: Until the pine wind sounds %fill my ears Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Zen Buddhism MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now utter calm and rest Last Line: God's will her will. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MUCH LIKE A MAN WHO DREAMING IN HIS SLEEP, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Sleep MY ANTIQUE LAMP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My antique lamp from old japan Last Line: And take myself to bed. Subject(s): Antiques; Lamps; Light; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Bedtime MY CANDLE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My candle burns ate both ends Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Candles; Sleep; Peace MY CHILDHOOD TREES, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: My childhood trees stand stall in the grass Last Line: We want to wake you, dead one, from your sleep Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Trees MY DAUGHTER IS SLEEPING, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source Last Line: In the lecherous deletions of sleep Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sleep MY DAUGHTER WHISPERS IN HER SLEEP, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Coins she meant to carry a long distance Last Line: The band, and they shine - %even this far across her room Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep MY DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep MY DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night Last Line: And tell it as I saw it on the spot Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep MY LADY SLEEPS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady's form is bathed in light Last Line: Sleep on, o lady mine! Subject(s): Sleep MY LOVE LAY SLEEPING WHERE BIRDS MUSIC MADE, by THE ELDER GILES FLETCHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Sleep MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But my hands, clinging, %remain %clinging Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Sleep MY SISTER'S SLEEP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fell asleep on christmas eve Last Line: Christ's blessing on the newly born!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Christmas; Sleep; Nativity, The MY TRUANT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bade him sleep, and he obeyed Last Line: And would not wake again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep MY WORDS HAVE CHARMED HER, FOR SECURE SHE SLEEPS, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep MYSTERY AND SOLITUDE IN TOPEKA, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afternoon darkens into evening. A man falls deeper and deeper into the slow spiral of Subject(s): Sleep NAKED LUNCH, by GERHARD FALKNER Poem Source First Line: A saucy rose revealed Last Line: Then, rose, head off to sleep %long and deep Subject(s): Lunch; Sleep NEARLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The most interesting aspect of complete fatigue Last Line: Effect the nearly resurrection %of the nearly dead. Subject(s): Beds; Sleep; Weariness NIGHT, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child' because of you Last Line: The earth too, as my cradle sung, %drifted into slumber deep Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The weary day has leaned her head in slumber Last Line: From them, and me. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue NIGHT, by ADA JORDAN PRAY Poem Text First Line: Night has dropped her rosy curtain Last Line: With peace our hearts to fill. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Peace; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the italian of giovanni strozzi Last Line: Take heed, then, lest thou wake me: ah, speak low. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night we dauntlessly embark Last Line: "and with glad voices cry, ""awake! Awake!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT AND SLEEP, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the time of night-prayer, as the sun slides down Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT AND SLEEP, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the time of night-prayer, as the sun slides down Last Line: It carries around in life so many griefs and loads %and trembles under their weight; they are gone; Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Night; Sleep NIGHT AND SLEEP, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange at night to wake Last Line: And call her crazed with wrong. Variant Title(s): The Shadow Of Night Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT AND WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is light and chill Last Line: And the wind is the voice of my heart. Subject(s): Sleep; Wind NIGHT FEEDING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Last Line: Found in the leaves, in clouds and dark, in dream, %deep as this hour, ready again to sleep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sleep; Women NIGHT IS NOW YOKING HER HORSES, AND THE YELLOW STARS, by ALBIUS TIBULLUS Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT OF SHADOWS, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: Night of shadows, tragic, helpless night! Last Line: The sleep of the conquered and the sleep of the dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death Last Line: Being rest. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece! Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . . Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks NIGHT PIECE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The ship, slow and rushing at the same time Last Line: Through the kingdom it has owned from birth Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul NIGHT POEMS: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the hours what hour is best Last Line: Potentialities of sleep. Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT SABLE GODDESS! FROM HER EBON THRONE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT THOUGHT, by GERALD JONAS Poem Source First Line: Trying to fall asleep Last Line: Is like trying to fall %asleep, or trying not to Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT VISION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl fits her body in Last Line: To build something human with it Subject(s): Women; Sleep NIGHT VISIONS MAY BEFRIEND (AS SUNG ABOVE), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT WINDS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The slender moon in its silvery sheen Last Line: For what should the night winds sigh? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Bedtime NIGHT WORK, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's too much: this hard work Last Line: Hardly changed at all Subject(s): Morning; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT' IN THE MEDICI CHAPEL, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep's very dear to me, but being stone's Last Line: Do not wake me; speak in the softest tones Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Night; Sleep NIGHT-PIECE, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's that scratching Last Line: In sleep. Night creeps by. Subject(s): Montague, John (b. 1929); Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHTCAP, by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grateful prayer to god above Last Line: Rain upon a roof of tin. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can leave when you want to Last Line: Nerve in the passionate lamp extinquished at the end of day / I sleep Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep NIGHTFALL, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I blink, and the sun has swept up the last shadows Last Line: The silence taking all of me %into its mouth Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep NIGHTFALL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, weary, one by one we lay Last Line: As samson in captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep NIGHTMARE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, / we have heard the sound of guns Last Line: Will the word come to-day?' Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Sleep NIGHTMARE, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: You are walking down a long hallway. Your classroom is the last one Last Line: Classroom is the last door on the left Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep NIGHTNIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Go to sleep. That's a strange sky Last Line: Pretend you know who you are. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep NISHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fell asleep, / hearing melody Last Line: Fell asleep dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares NO MORE MY PILLOW THINE ALTAR BE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep NO SAD THOUGHT HIS SOUL AFFRIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep NOCTURNE, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Silence of the night, a sad, nocturnal Last Line: The clock has rung three-if only it were she! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleep NOCTURNE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep that like the couched dove Last Line: The comfort of the poor man, sleep. Subject(s): Sleep NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will say: I walked alone in whistling darkness Last Line: The lover, ridiculous; the loved, sublime. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime NORMAN CRADLE-SONG, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon is afloat Last Line: And the heavenly noon. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Sleep; Infants NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 3. IN PORT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last, to the chamber where I lie Last Line: And in the land of nod at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 3 Subject(s): Beds; Sleep NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like miraculous shining electrum / this wide amber light Last Line: Hushes heaven, whence radiance is drifting! Subject(s): Calm; Moon; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime NOT BY THE SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the sea, but somewhere in the hills Last Line: There must be sleep, even for sleepless eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep NOW HAD THE NIGHT'S COMPANION FROM HER DEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: Golden head so lowly bending Last Line: Rising to the throne divine. Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood NOW IT'S NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll go away when you want to Last Line: I am sleeping Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep NOW SLEEP, AND TAKE THY REST, by JAMES MABBE Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep NOW THEY DESIRE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sleep we have not slept Last Line: In sevenfold day of days Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem; Doves; Sleep; Dreams; Love NOW WAS THE TIME WHEN MAN AND BIRD AND BEAST, by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep NOW, YOU SEE THAT NOTHING IS SO LIKE TO DEATH AS SLEEP, by MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep NUBIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A land of dreams and sleep, a poppied land! Last Line: But she hath built an altar to repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Time; Nightmares NURSES'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, baby, sleep! Subject(s): Sleep NUTRITIVE VALUES, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes we just turn & say something Last Line: Now shut your eyes & sleep. Deeply Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep O CRUEL DAWN, HOW SWIFT YOUR BEAMS, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Sleep O LITTLE FAIRIES..., by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little fairies, under your long, long hair Last Line: What matter that I know it false and vain . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Elves O LYRE, THY SIGNALS THE SINGERS OBEY, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep O NIGHT DIVINE, MOTHER OF ALL THINGS FAIR, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Sleep O SLEEP A LITTLE WHILE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl! Last Line: My sudden adoration, my great love! Subject(s): Sleep O, THAT MY MUSE COULD TELL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When roused from sleep at night Last Line: When dawns the morning light! Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime OASIS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glint of the sun thrown back from the gray Last Line: That cool oasis where riotings cease. Subject(s): Peace; Sleep ODE TO LAZINESS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I felt this ode Last Line: And soon I began to fall %asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Idleness; Rest; Sleep ODE TO SLEEP, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soothest sleep, if so it please thee, close Subject(s): Sleep ODE TO SLEEP, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the sunset, and the amber sea Last Line: To thy diviner sleep, o sacred death! Subject(s): Rest; Sleep ODE TO SLEEP, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sleep, with dewy poppies crowned Last Line: Come end my woe; thus may I see thee %in the arms of thy loved pasithea Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep ODE TO SLEEP, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline. Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 2. TO SLEEP, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou silent power, whose welcome sway Last Line: Or to the trembling sire his age's hope restored. Subject(s): Sleep OEDIPUS, SELS., by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O my jocasta! 'tis for this, the wet Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Sleep OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: BESIDE REST, by GIAN LOMBARDO Poem Source First Line: Dropped by the road, full bloom from seed of exhaustin. Not some pretty ... Last Line: There's yet ample room to be fallen Subject(s): Rest; Sleep OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: PREPARATION (MAKE-READY), by GIAN LOMBARDO Poem Source First Line: Subsequent dreams were laden with arms carrying flags. Rows and rows filling... Last Line: Fallen, they tire of watching the parade -where from the ground, they stretch, yawn and %proceed, of Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep OF LOVE AND SLEEP, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw sleep stand by an enchanted wood Last Line: That love was one with life, and sleep with death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sleep; Dead, The OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails OLD AGE, by JANE T. MANDERSCHIED Poem Text First Line: She sits in her winged chair, enthroned Last Line: Again she sleeps. Subject(s): Aging; Chairs; Sleep OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery OLD LIZETTE ON SLEEP, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bed is the boon for me! Last Line: "she's turning in her sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep OLD NIGHT AND SLEEP, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cold rain falls through empty nests, a cold rain Last Line: Some new sense of days being counted. Subject(s): Rain; Sleep OLYMPIAD, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is a precious act, the point Last Line: Be all my balance and medallion now? Subject(s): Sleep OMENS BY THE WAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! Our pilgrimage Last Line: To meet this fluting run! Subject(s): Graves; Happiness; Omens; Sleep; Voices; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight ON A CHILD SLEEPING IN CYNTHIA'S LAP, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, happy boy, there sleep, and take thy rest Last Line: Yet all this while, it is no dream, but true. Subject(s): Boys; Sleep ON A HILL-TOP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust Last Line: Mirrors the dreamer in its glowing glass. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Sleep ON LINEN, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: From that peasant's sky I brought the blue, the clean blue of Last Line: Only I could now sleep peacefully, like them, my task complete Subject(s): Night; Sleep ON SLEEP, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye deep shades of night, that from the view Last Line: And thou canst look, and speak, and charm my heart. Subject(s): Sleep ON THE PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet babe, whose image here expressed Last Line: Harmless infant, lull thee still! Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood ON YOUR CURLS' FULL ROUNDNESS STAND, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep ONE DAY OLD BABY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: A rag of puffy flesh in Last Line: Sleeping in a stranger's forearm, %when it is all he is Subject(s): Babies; Sleep ONE NIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see. Gone now is all that brightness Last Line: Calls, and each silence deeper sounds for song that was. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime ORGAN SONGS: REST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When round the earth the father's hands Last Line: My deep, still, resting sea. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Rest; Sleep; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: THE SLEEPLESS JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time to sleep, my little boy Last Line: Smile, son of god, smile on. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Sleep; Childhood ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology ORIGIN MEANS CRAB, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Changes of time go quietly Last Line: A matter of feeling over fire Subject(s): Night; Rest; Silence; Sleep ORPHIC HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thee I invoke, blest pow'r of dreams divine Subject(s): Sleep ORPHIC HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Night, parent goddess, source of sweet repose Subject(s): Sleep ORPHIC HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, king of gods, and men of mortal birth Subject(s): Sleep OTHERS, ACCORDING TO LUCRETIUS, by GERTRUDE PALMER VAUGHAN Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep OUR BIRTH IS BUT A ASLEEP AND A FORGETTING, by CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep OUT OF GRIMM: 2. GNOME, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Confined till dark to a dark Last Line: And bid us follow down Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 14, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Life is a dream in the eternal sleep Last Line: Heaven denied, mid depths of hell unknown. Subject(s): Love; Sleep OUTLET, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Sometime when oft I revel Last Line: Lo! No escape. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking OVERLOOKED, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, with her tender balm, her touch so kind Last Line: But thou, and sleep, and peace, come not to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Peace; Sleep; Solitude; Loneliness PARIS DURING THE REVOLUTION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep PASSAGES, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Ruptured sky and ruptured earth Last Line: Of a sleep that can no longer last Subject(s): Sleep PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PEACE AND QUIET, by KAREN MUENSTERMAN Poem Source First Line: The odor of my odyssey Last Line: Like lightning bugs in jelly jars, %my captured memories Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep PEER REVIEW, by GARY N. ATLIN Poem Source First Line: Dr. Bidwell's grant prosal is ripe and sweet Last Line: Cover him with skins and let him sleep Subject(s): Sleep; Writing And Writers PERCHANCE THIS SLEEP THAT SHUTTETH OUT THE DREARY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep PEREGRIN, WANDERING HUNTER OF FACES, by JOSE MARIA EGUREN Poem Source First Line: In the watchtower of fantasy Last Line: From the sightless heights Subject(s): Death; Night; Sleep PERHAPS, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: Perhaps you have wept and wept, and can weep no more. Last Line: I will slowly, slowly let the ashes of paper money fly Subject(s): Calm; Sleep PERNICIOUS NIGHT, AGE-LEADING IN HER HAND, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep PERSON MEANS CITY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Sleep crumpled us, our Last Line: The time episode of you Subject(s): Anger; Memory; Relationships; Sleep PETER, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Peter sleep-walks Last Line: We are asleep, let us in Subject(s): Sleep PHONE CALL FROM ARIZONA, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife tells me she's going to sleep Last Line: Like a tongue, like a spur, %or a gun barrel turning Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Sleep; Worry PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean PILLOW-STUFFING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbor languid over the way Last Line: What your pillow's stuffed with! Subject(s): Pillows; Sleep PIRATE'S SONG, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: With cannon ten on port and starboard Last Line: My law, brute force and a hearty wind %my land, the open se a Subject(s): Pirates; Ships And Shipping; Sleep PLACE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking of you asleep on Subject(s): Sleep POEM, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your breath was shed Subject(s): Sleep; Breath POOR MINSTREL, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Does the darkness cradle thee Last Line: Than mine arms more tenderly? Subject(s): Minstrels; Sleep POPPIES, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poppies blooming all around Last Line: At midnight's darksome hour. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Poppies; Sleep PORTBURY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you are weary, and it is most right Last Line: Ah, hush! Hush! Hush! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Pleasure; Sleep PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day is growing old Last Line: Shepherded by quiet prayer. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Sleep PRELUDE (BOOKS 1-14), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: In beauty exalted, as it is itself %of quality and fabric more divine Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Sleep; Travel PREMONITION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed Last Line: Had darkened while I slept! Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares PROTEUS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Licked by the tongues of sleep %we dream of birth, of water Last Line: This is the heart of the matter: %cell deep, we cannot deny sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Sleep PROTEUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the splashed cave I found him. Not Last Line: Of his own death by the insatiate sea Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Monsters; Sleep PSALM 127, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: The house jehova builds not Last Line: Shall unto him be dreadfull. Subject(s): Religion; Sleep; Theology PSALM 127, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Except the lord build the house Last Line: But they shall speak with the enemies in the gate Subject(s): Religion; Sleep PSALM 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul in god hath more desirous trust Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Sleep PUT TO SLEEP, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back and forth in a rocker Last Line: Had crowed his mother to sleep. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep QUARRIED STONE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: He who lay on rock Last Line: The sun on quarried stone. Subject(s): Abandonment; Family Life; Sleep; Desertion; Relatives QUERY, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: What shall our hearts Last Line: In dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Hearts; Sleep RAVINE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: As they come Last Line: You point %to your head Subject(s): Bodies; Guns; San Francisco; Sleep; Vietnam READING HIM TO SLEEP, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: We study prehistoric animals Subject(s): Prehistoric Animals; Sleep RECIPE FOR SLEEP, ADDENDUM, by CHRIS WEIDENBACH Poem Source First Line: Crawl into the giant glove Last Line: With the navy blue and wait 5for the bassoon Subject(s): Sleep RED SUNSET, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: As if all were good Last Line: She says to sister night as she tucks you in %and rattles the stars by your bed Subject(s): Blood; Death; Evening; Rest; Sleep REFLECTING TIP, EXPECT THE TASTE OF WEDGES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The dream's prospect a disaster: %the moon Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep REJUVENATION, by ALICE LOUISE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garden 'bed'; perhaps they call it so Last Line: To greet the golden glory of the skies. Subject(s): Beds; Sleep RELEASE, by AUGUSTA WRAY Poem Text First Line: In the dark and tranquil stillness of the night Last Line: When sleep, or death, gives them their liberty. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The REMMINISSENCIZ OF ORGUST 14 AITNUNDREDNAITY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a great person of stratton Last Line: To leave micheldever for stratton Subject(s): Nonsense; Sleep REPOSE, by MARTHA NEWSOM Poem Text First Line: Oh hours Last Line: For toil. Subject(s): Sleep REQUIEM OF ARCHANGELS FOR THE WORLD, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts, beat no more! Earth's sleep has come! Last Line: The torches of thy train of stars! Subject(s): Angels; Sleep RIO GRANDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this was what macpherson told Last Line: The race the dead men ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Racing; Rivers; Sleep; Nightmares ROADSIDE POEMS: RECIPROCITY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother, elfie older grown Subject(s): God; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep ROADSIDE POEMS: THE WAKEFUL SLEEPER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When things are holding wonted pace Last Line: The child is with the father. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!" Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs SACRED EPIGRAM: AND THE DISCIPLES CAME AND AWOKE HIM, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what madness it was to dispell this sleep, so rare? Last Line: The sleep of christ harmed nothing, believe me. The sleep %which harmed was the sleep of your faith Subject(s): Sleep SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE MINSTRELS AND THE PEOPLE MAKING NOISE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silly ones, why are so you noisy? For although she sleeps Last Line: She sleeps; but she is not asleep to everyone Subject(s): Sleep SAFETY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A cross uplifted on a hill Last Line: They went to pay their tithes and pray. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SALUTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, about to die, salute you kindly Last Line: We, the elders, hail our brothers young! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism SAND, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Depending on how and where you lie Last Line: Neither do I Subject(s): Sleep SANDY STAR: 3. EXIT, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, his exit by the gate Last Line: Pulsing through his sleep. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep SAPPHICS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids Last Line: Hearing, to hear them. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dreams; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sleep; Nightmares SATAN AWAKENS ALL HIS LEGIONS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n' ...' Subject(s): Sleep SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound Last Line: Oh love -- Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SERENADE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stars, with trailing galaxies Last Line: Dreaming a dream of me! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime SESTINA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I came by torchlight there is dawn-song Last Line: Till I had made body and season from a song Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Night; Sleep SESTINA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my soul at rest upon a day Last Line: Sing while he may, man hath no long delight. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares SETTLED WORLD, by EDITH SAYER Poem Text First Line: The sleepy sun gives one last noiseless yawn Last Line: Save me. -- I do not sleep. -- I do not sleep. Subject(s): Sleep SEVEN AFTERNOONS: THE JUGGLER'S ALTERNATIVE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the other hand Last Line: The solitude of waking Subject(s): Love; Peace; Sleep SEVEN TIMES FIVE [ - WIDOWHOOD], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sleep and rest, my heart makes moan Last Line: On the hills of god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Sleep; Widows & Widowers SHADOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Night fell once you had forded the stream Last Line: God, talk and breathe and laugh and be your shadow is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep SHADOWS AT CLOSE OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A pekinese lay dreaming Last Line: Shadows at close of day. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime SHE SETS THE TOWN ABLAZE, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Sleep SHE SLEEPS, by LILLIAN STRADLEY Poem Text First Line: She sleeps...We tiptoe lightly Last Line: Beautifully...Forevermore. Subject(s): Sleep SHE SLEEPS BENEATH THE WINTER SNOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep; Winter SHE SLEPT BENEATH A TREE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And see! Subject(s): Sleep SHE WENT TO SLEEP BELOW, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She went to sleep below Last Line: Of their constrained rest. Subject(s): Sleep SHIP, SOLID AND BLACK, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Will speak differently Subject(s): Silence; Sleep SHOWER, by ELIZABETH ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: The smallest ideas become perceptible Last Line: And what that washes up to Subject(s): Sleep SICILIAN FOLK LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lovely, lovely, is my son" Last Line: Then restore him later to me Subject(s): Sleep SILENCE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: I am the warden of the seals of sleep Last Line: Safe in my keeping have I hidden god. Subject(s): God; Silence; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs SILENCES, by OLIVIA MACIEL Poem Source First Line: I become silences Last Line: I enter and so do you Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Veracruz, Mexico SILENT MOVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep SILESIUS DREAMS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Dreams are true because they happen Last Line: Looking is consumed into seeing Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep SILVER EYES KNOW, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Ends in secret as your arms %work those arbors Subject(s): Love; Sleep SIMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A man will drink himself to death Last Line: Stroll in Subject(s): Devil; Drinks And Drinking; Hell; Longing; Sleep SING SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the song of the sleeping wife Subject(s): Sleep SITTING BY THE FIRE (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! The solace in the sitting Last Line: Sitting by the fire. Subject(s): Fire; Sleep SLEEP, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to soft sleep we give ourselves away Last Line: How will it be when we shall sleep indeed? Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that stills the sigh of sorrow Last Line: Is his through a blissful eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by ALICE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Withdraw thee, soul, from strife Last Line: O fortune's darling, dowered with rest! Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain, thou drousy god, I thee invoke Last Line: Thou scorn'st th' unhappy; and the happy thee. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces Variant Title(s): The Halyco Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Life's angel half, sweet sleep Last Line: Can take their fears away. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men all, and birds, and creeping beasts Last Line: That burgeons out of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! To the homeless, thou art home Last Line: The secrets of the unsearchable! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A book slips from his hands Last Line: That seems measured on the scale %of silent beauty Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thus would I question the unwearying one Last Line: Which lifts between the earthy and immortal? Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jessie, as I came home to-day I saw Last Line: Infinite pity above him and around. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Sleep was going south. It passed baja Last Line: It was sweet enough for sleep Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Travel SLEEP, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor pain-worn mortal, dost thou weep? Last Line: God must be good. For god made sleep. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: The day's spent life goes out with night Last Line: For only themselves to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft silence of the summer night Last Line: Of love intense. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is quick-sand in sleep, and quick-silver Last Line: In a coffin of temporal sand. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sleep; Dead, The SLEEP, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How greatly good to fall outspread Last Line: Descend the angel sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SLEEP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou drowsy god, whose blurred Last Line: Swallows and licks its wet lips over me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Night; Orphans; Sleep; Bedtime; Foundlings SLEEP, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Come, sleep, thou languid, lovely child of night Last Line: Of heaven into care's domain, o sleep! Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Godhead's lip hangs Last Line: And shut your sinister essences Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sways the restless sea Last Line: In dreams love hath no smart, -- sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Lead me, kind sleep, unto the land of dreams Last Line: Than this from where my dear dead comrades are. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds over Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Roundels; Sleep SLEEP, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: To sleep! To float upon a dreamless wave! Last Line: Far out to calm upon the ocean's night. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle sleep! Attend thy votary's prayer Last Line: And, without dying, o how sweet to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Rest; Sleep SLEEP, by EDITH FRANKLIN WYATT Poem Text First Line: Where do I go Last Line: In citadels unknown. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he is a little chap Last Line: We call him slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP (2), by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is good for fever, except sleep Last Line: Time shall waken sorrow in the heart till death. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind art thou as thy mother night Last Line: And dream-imagined utterance. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP (3), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, balmy sleep? Last Line: "from the hushed waves of tone." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee! Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime SLEEP - PHYSIOLOGICAL SLEIGHT, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP AND DEATH, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two wandering angels, sleep and death Last Line: "remembers thee with gladness!" Variant Title(s): The Two Angels; An Allegory Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP BRINGS NO JOY TO ME, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS A DEEP AND MANY VOICED FLOOD, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our little death from which we daily Last Line: Even while I spoke to you of love Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS A DEEP AND MANY VOICED FLOOD, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our little death from which we daily Last Line: Even while I spoke to you of love Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS MOST GRACEFUL IN AN INFANT; SOUNDEST, IN ONE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS NOT SO MERCIFUL, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS SUPPOSED TO BE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That is the break of day Subject(s): Sleep' Morning; Death SLEEP OF THE INSOMNIAC, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The body beside your body sleeps like death Last Line: You sleep beside. Stars fasten to your forehead Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP POSITIONS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: This is how we sleep Last Line: A flying though, %lie down Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Dear little blue-eyes, go to sleep! Last Line: Sleep, love, and close your eyes of blue. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood SLEEP SONG OF MOTHERHOOD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Little one - little one - child of my breast Last Line: My crooning sleep song to thee, rapturous thing! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood SLEEP SPACES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night there are of course the seven wonders Last Line: In the daylight too Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When day is over, mother sings songs Last Line: And he doesn't even hear mother putting out the light. Subject(s): April; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Infants SLEEP! SLEEP! MINE ONLY JEWEL, by NICHOLAS YONGE Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, MINSTREL, SLEEP, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, minstrel, sleep; the winter wind's awake Last Line: When winter winds awoke. Sleep, minstrel, sleep Subject(s): Sleep; Winter SLEEP, NEXT SOCIETY AND TRUE FRIENDSHIP, by BRUCE MACKINNON Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, OH MY SOUL, SLEEP, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP, THE ALMONER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adown the voids and vastnesses of night Last Line: Adown the voids and vastnesses of night! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Sleep SLEEP, TO WHOM PAIN IS AN UNKNOWN THING, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPE, DEATHES ALYE, by JOHN LYLY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPERS, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: When the soldiers had come Last Line: Slept soundly in a white feather bed Subject(s): Sleep; Soldiers SLEEPERS AWAKE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cervantes was asleep when he wrote don quixote Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Sleep SLEEPING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long, long sleep, a famous sleep Last Line: Nor once look up for noon? Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Though winners are rarely declared, this is an arduous contest similar Last Line: Why do we hear so often the phrase, he died in his sleep? Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep SLEEPING AND WAKING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said to herself - 'twas a girl ranging / pleasaunce and lawn Last Line: Where desire of all hearts dwelleth deep in a dream of the dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Waking; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEPING AND WATCHING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, baby on the floor Last Line: With reveille holy. Variant Title(s): The Child And The Watcher Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SLEEPING AT LAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over Last Line: Sleeping at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The SLEEPING IN THE FOREST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought the earth remembered me, Subject(s): Sleep; Nature SLEEPING INNOCENCE, by MARGARET MACKINNON Poem Source First Line: From the dust of these mango-littered streets Last Line: Her body, that cool white scar Subject(s): Innocence; Sleep SLEEPING ON HORSEBACK, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had ridden long and were still far from the inn Last Line: A hundred years are but a moment of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING ON MY RIGHT SIDE I THINK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On my back I snore with my dog Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sleep; Thought SLEEPING ON THE CEILING, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is so peaceful on the ceiling Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING ON THE CEILING, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is so peaceful on the ceiling Last Line: But oh, that we could sleep up there Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING TOGETHER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping together - how tired you were Last Line: Sleeping together?... How tired you were.... Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING UPSIDE DOWN, by KATE LYN HIBBARD Poem Source First Line: Tonight in this heat I'm thinking of the summer Last Line: Until the air moved, the heat broke Subject(s): Sleep; Summer SLEEPING WOMAN, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: All of you is sleeping Last Line: Sleeping with me while you sleep Subject(s): Sleep; Women SLEEPWALKER, by STEFAN AUGUSTIN DOINAS Poem Source First Line: You - who know too well how treacherous is Last Line: Which, leaping upon me, will wake me up Subject(s): Sleep; Sleepwalking SLEEPY MAN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sleepy man comes with the dust on his eyes Last Line: (so hush-a-by, weary my dearie!) Subject(s): Sleep SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SLIPPING INTO BED, by MICHAEL HETTICH Poem Source First Line: I listen to my heartbeat, to my breath, to my wife's breathing beside Last Line: Emembers, as though you were going anywhere at all Subject(s): Breath; Marriage; Sleep SLUMBER AND SLEEP, TWO BROTHERS APPOINTED, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER FAIRIES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, my little one ! Hush! Lie down Last Line: Mamma must go. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SLUMBER IS SWEET, BUT IT WERE SWEETER STILL, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Ah, wake me not! Whisper as you go past! Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER SONG, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: When blue dust thickens in the air Last Line: If dying were the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER SONG, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowsily come the sheep Last Line: Drowsily come the sheep. Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER SONG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed Last Line: And roses in the darkness; and my love. Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER SONG (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! The spirits that attend Last Line: All the sleeping and the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER SONG [OR LULLABY], by SHIRLEY CLARE Poem Text First Line: A song for the baby, sweet little bo-peep Last Line: Now whist! Willie winkie, she's gone fast asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Dare, Shirley Subject(s): Sleep SLUMBER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little one! The twilight folds her gloom Last Line: Of rapture perfected. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime SLUMBERING YESTERDAYS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Awaken them not, those sweet days of the past Last Line: Surcease to remorse, manifest. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Sleep SMELL OF FRENCH BOOKS, by RICHARD FAMMEREE Poem Source First Line: The smell of french books is particuliere. It is Last Line: It is the lick, lick, lick of a chocolate clock, and I am asleep %before the chiming Subject(s): Books; France; Sleep SMILING IN HIS SLEEP, by HARRIET W. STILLMAN Poem Source First Line: The baby sleeps and smiles Last Line: So beautiful? Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Smiles SNOW-SPELL, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The world was wrapped in a robe of ravishing white Last Line: Lay white and beautiful beneath the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Hate; Sleep; Snow; War SO SLEEPS A PILOT WHOSE POOR BARK IS PREST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SO THEY WENT EARLY TO THEIR BEDS, AND CARELESSLY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SOFT FEATHERS SPURNED, by RUTH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I don't like my pillow - now Last Line: That I will be content with sleep. Subject(s): Sleep SOLEMN THING IT IS TO ME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep SOLILOQUY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a player, on the stage? Not so Last Line: May god himself approve my curtain speech! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Sleep; Actresses; Dead, The; Dramatists SOME DREAMS HANG IN THE AIR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hang in the air like smoke %touching everything Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep SOME HASTY RHYMES ON SLEEP, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious deity, impart Last Line: And thy soft arm support his head. Subject(s): Rhyme; Sleep SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had but two little wings Last Line: And still dreams on. Subject(s): Flight; Love; Sleep; Flying SOMNUS, by JOHN DENHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Somnus, the humble god that dwells Last Line: And both are the same thing at last. Subject(s): Sleep SONG, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shall be thy lullaby Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Ocean SONG, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not the sluggish sleep Last Line: With twenty mortal foes. Variant Title(s): "let Not The Sluggish Sleep""; Subject(s): Sleep SONG, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber on! While I watch o'er thee Last Line: Which I see before me now. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep SONG OF PARENTS WHO WANT TO WAKE UP THEIR SON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Don't sleep! For your paddle fell into the water, and your spear Last Line: Don't sleep! For the ravens and crows are flying about Subject(s): Sleep SONG OF THE SLEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeper rest quietly Last Line: Sleep and forget! Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SONG WITH THE EYES CLOSED, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the shape in sleep Last Line: Is suffered of the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep SONG, FR. POLLY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o sleep, / with thy rod of incantation Last Line: So may I always keep. Variant Title(s): Air 23 Subject(s): Sleep SONG: 7, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What meaneth this? When I lie alone? Last Line: What meaneth this? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Sleep SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 5. NOEL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To awake at dawn and remember new-dropt lambs Last Line: "o lamb which takest away the sin of the world." Subject(s): Christmas; Fear; Life; Religion; Sleep; Nativity, The; Theology SONGS IN SLEEP, by WILLIAM CAREY RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: If I could frame for you in cunning words Last Line: Their inner meaning, though you missed the measure. Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE FIRST WATCH. TIRED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I would tell you more, but I am tired Last Line: O, I am tired! Subject(s): Life; Light; Love; Night; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue SONGS TO A.H.R.: 12. SHELTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been out where the winds are Last Line: And, if god wills, at dawn wake, again, to laugh or weep. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Silence; Sleep SONNET, by AUDREY BEECHAM Poem Source First Line: A silence, thick and close, seeps through ... Subject(s): Sleep SONNET TO A SLEEPING CHILD: 1, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, 'tis a touching thing, to make one weep Last Line: Tinging thy dreams with unacquainted grief. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood SONNET TO A SLEEPING CHILD: 2, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyelids slept so beauteously, I deemed Last Line: If not more lovely, thou art more like love! Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood SONNET TO SLEEP, by GIOVANNI DELLA CASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the silent, dark, and humid night Last Line: How full of hardships is the downy bed! Subject(s): Sleep SONNET: 1. A DREAM, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over known fields with an old friend in dream Last Line: Syaing, 'I shall be here some day again' Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep SONNET: 7, by PATRICK HANNAY Poem Source First Line: When as I wake I dream oft of my dear Subject(s): Sleep SONNET: TO SLEEP, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soft embalmer of the still midnight Last Line: And seal the hushed casket of my soul. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Sleep Subject(s): Sleep SOUND DOCTRINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, beat the drum, and be not afraid Last Line: And also because I drum not amiss. Subject(s): Drums; Kisses; Musical Instruments; Sleep; Youth SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each pot now hang bright Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each pot now hang bright Last Line: Guard them, o earth, in your travels Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep SPENDING THE DAY ON A SLEEPING PORCH, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the enclosure my family Last Line: At every opportunity Subject(s): Day; Family Life; Sleep; Relatives SPENDING THE DAY ON A SLEEPING PORCH, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the enclosure my family Last Line: Endlessly, or they will kill themselves %at every opportunity Subject(s): Day; Family Life; Sleep SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism SPHINX, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are nothing but self, and have no manner of being Last Line: Is it eternal death, or is it infinite life? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPIRIT OF SLEEP, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Now up the broad white path of dreams Last Line: Be borne aloft on wings of prayer. Subject(s): Dreams; Prayer; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares SPIRITS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel spirits of sleep Last Line: Threading dances light? Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sleep SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime SSSHH, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was someone asleep in the next room Subject(s): Sleep SSSHH, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was someone asleep in the next room Last Line: The lovers, and now the paper whisper, %ssshh, ssshh Subject(s): Sleep STANDING ON THE LONG LIE, by PAUL SNOEK Poem Source First Line: Standing on the long lie Last Line: And of the sun the final tear Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep STAR DUST, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE Poem Text First Line: Little moon riding on in the dusk of the sky Last Line: From the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stars their perfection Last Line: I think it moves around %and no mistake Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars STATION (1), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy the soldiers' sleep -- ah, the sleep of a soldier Last Line: No, no one Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sleep; Soldiers STAY UP WITH ME, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Source First Line: Because I don't want to sleep Last Line: The idea behind everything is Subject(s): Sleep STAYING TOO LONG IN ONE PLACE, by JANE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Take the stars, repeatedly returning to check out Last Line: Out of the house, drop and roll Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleep STEEDS OF NIGHT HAD TRAVELLED HALF THE SKY, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Sleep STILL SOUND, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sleep STREETS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man leaves the world Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Sleep; Streets; Dead, The; Avenues STRIFE AND PEACE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow poplar leaves came down Last Line: Hath entered into peace. Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Poplar Trees; Sleep SUCH SIMPLE LOVE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All night long I hear the sleepers toss Last Line: No one is warm Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love; Sleep SWEET PLEASING SLEEP! OF ALL THE POWR'S THE BEST!, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Sleep SWEETHEART, ARISE! WHY DO YOU SLEEP, by THOMAS WEELKES Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep TALL WALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She sleeps easily, the village at rest in her thighs Last Line: Drinking tears and cries Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Sleep; Villages TALLY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After her pills the girl slept and counted Subject(s): Sleep TAPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, now that the charge is won Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Holidays; Sleep; Veterans Day TEARS, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep you no more, sad fountains Last Line: Sleeping. Variant Title(s): Lute Song Set By John Dowland (6);sleep;a Song For Music Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS IN SLEEP, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares TEDIUM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hours of tedium hang on Last Line: What an eternity the dried-up foliage %has been sobbing! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Shadows; Sleep; Solitude TELL ME MY GOD, I LIVE, by GERTRUDE PALMER VAUGHAN Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep TEN O'CLOCK NO MORE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has thrown Last Line: And looked again. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Sleep; Trees; Dead, The THANATOPSIS FOR HETTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hartman's seamstress, hetty Last Line: To the no-more-needy dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THAT NIGHT, ITS SLEEPLESS HOURS I'LL NE'ER FORGET, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Sleep THE AFTER-STATE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit came upon me in the night Last Line: But looked quietly into each other's face. Variant Title(s): A Dream Subject(s): Sleep THE AFTERNOON NAP, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The farmer sat in his easy chair Last Line: Fast asleep were they both, that summer day! Variant Title(s): A Picture Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Sleep; Agriculture; Farmers THE AMULET, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees Last Line: If I did. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE ANGEL'S WHISPER, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby was sleeping Last Line: "said, ""I knew that the angels were whispering with thee." Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Children; Sleep; Smiles; Infants; Childhood THE AWAKENING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So it has come to you, dear Last Line: Wait for the days to be. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE AWAKENING (1), by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once she woke to fairyland Last Line: Sleep so like to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his scarlet coat Last Line: The brave man with a sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Freedom; Love; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Sleep; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Convicts; Theology THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF NOD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear Last Line: That beautiful land of nod. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Land Of Nod Subject(s): Sleep THE BED, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be draped with serge or with brocade Last Line: Bids welcome and farewell to all his kin. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beds; Sleep; Heritage; Heredity THE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of all god's gifts the best Last Line: Softest, safest, blessedest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE BELL-MAN (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From noise of scare-fires rest ye free Last Line: My masters all, good day to you. Subject(s): Sleep THE BIRDS DO THUS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept all day Last Line: I choose to sleep. Subject(s): Sleep THE BLEAK OF THE YEAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time of subtle browns, and grays Last Line: A mystery, the selah of the soul. Subject(s): Dreams; Seasons; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares THE BLESSED HANDS OF SLEEP, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay me down with sighs and tears Last Line: Innocent and gay! Subject(s): Sleep THE BLESSED SLEEP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Farewell, dear heart, then sleep! Last Line: Into our saviour's face. Subject(s): Farewell; Sleep; Parting THE BLUE NAP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept like a stone, or like that vast Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Sleep THE BODING DREAMS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lover's ear a wild voice cried Last Line: The murder's done. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Murder; Predestination; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BOHEMIAN DREAMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because my overcoat's in pawn Last Line: I doze and doze and doze. Subject(s): Bohemians; Idleness; Paris, France; Sleep; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE BROTHERS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, sleep - they were two brothers Last Line: Slumber did his brother's duty -- sleep was deepen'd into death. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: CANTO 1, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mortal man, who livest here by toil Last Line: Down to the ground at once, as butcher felleth ox. Subject(s): Sleep THE CERTAIN KNOT OF PEACE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, my proud soul, so you, whose shining force Last Line: Silenced by sleep. Subject(s): Sleep THE CHILD ASLEEP, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's over england? A cloud. What's over france? A flame Subject(s): War; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE COBBLER AND THE RICH MAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A cobbler sang from morn till night Last Line: "and take the money, every pound!" Variant Title(s): The Cobbler And The Financier Subject(s): Fables; Shoes; Sleep; Wealth; Allegories; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Riches; Fortunes THE COMFORTERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To night the sleeper Last Line: "o sorrow the sleeper!" Subject(s): Comfort; Dreams; Night; Peace; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE CONJURER'S SONG, by ROBERT HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Ye twice ten hundred deities Last Line: That use to lull thee in thy sleep. Subject(s): Sleep THE COVES OF CRAIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon-white waters wash and leap Last Line: Amid the coves of crail. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Crail, Scotland; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of herodias, / she danced before the king Last Line: In that abysmal sleep! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Sleep THE DEATH-DREAM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, now, put dreams into thy slumbering mind? Last Line: Called back to thee across the eternal stream? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sleep THE DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our best will be to dream of what we were Subject(s): Love; Death; Fear; Sleep THE DESERTS OF SLEEP, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went into the deserts of dim sleep Last Line: Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep. Subject(s): Sleep THE DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I dreamed that, buried in my fellow clay" Last Line: "here all are equal, now thy case is mine: / this is my rotting-place, and that is thine" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;dreams;sleep; Nightmares THE DREAM, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or scorn, or pity on me take Last Line: As since he dares not come within my sight. Subject(s): Sleep THE DREAM RANGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, young, I slept in a cold bed Last Line: To hell! With life on the dream range! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Money; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DREAM-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, like a sleeping child Last Line: Breathes low in the gardens of sleep in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Sleep; Wind; World THE DREAMS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sleeping I go in dreams Last Line: When I wake from my dreams, I wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DUSTMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when the shades of night are falling, and the sun goes down" Last Line: When the dustman comes a-creeping in from shut-eye town Subject(s): Sleep THE DUSTMAN, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the toys are growing weary Last Line: Far away in slumberland. Subject(s): Sleep THE DYING DECADENT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when the evening came he fell asleep Last Line: Calling on things that he had long forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Sleep; Nightmares THE ENLACEMENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something holy about Subject(s): Love; Sleep; Togetherness THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by SYDNEY BALDWIN SELF Poem Text First Line: Darkly the hay-sweet meadows dream / away the hours Last Line: Gather from out the mist. Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING STAR, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the sunset sky Last Line: Living again in thy life and thy light. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Bedtime THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FALL OF HYPERION; A DREAM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave Last Line: And made their dove-wings tremble. On he flared. Subject(s): Sleep THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down old ways the monks pass ringing Last Line: Miserere, domine. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GARDEN OF MORPHIA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loaded needle's plunge, a little wait Last Line: My garden is a prison at the best. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sleep THE GARLAND OF SLEEP, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wreath of poppy flowers Last Line: As if it were a tomb. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Poppies; Sleep; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE GOLDEN DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps; her head is pillowed where Last Line: Break not her golden vision's spell! Subject(s): Grief;sleep;youth; Sorrow;sadness THE HEAVEN OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset far over the lea Last Line: "and love a moon-white steed." Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love Affairs; Romance; Sleep; Nightmares; Paradise THE HERETIC, by MARJORIE LEICHNER Poem Text First Line: Drifting and stumbling through the rain-drenched night Last Line: On his slab of granite: peace is for the dead. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE HOSTEL OF SLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the hostel of sleep. Come in, come in! Last Line: As you lie at rest in the chamber blue. Subject(s): Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green wing and ruby throat Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go. Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE INFANTS THREE SABATHS', by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, infant, slumber Last Line: Consecrate thy rest Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Sabbath THE INGRATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Night upon her darkling ways Last Line: Westward fled away to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insomnia; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sleeplessness; Bedtime THE ISLAND OF SLEEP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fled foam underneath us and round us, a wandering and milky smoke Last Line: In a long iron sleep, as a fish in the water goes dumb as a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Sleep THE IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones THE IVORY GATE; THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, / as we hear / the song of wild swans winging Last Line: * * * Subject(s): Sleep THE KATYDIDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I keep Last Line: Mommy dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Katydids; Night; Noises; Sleep; Bedtime THE KNIFE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep: Subject(s): Sleep; Relationships THE LAND OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake, my little boy! Last Line: "above the light of the morning star." Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep THE LAST COMPLAINT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me! An old man said Last Line: My last look of the clear moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The THE LAST DESIRE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: From dreamless nights to wake to mocking morrows Last Line: How blest a thing to die, if this be dying! Subject(s): Comfort; Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness THE LAST DREAM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In a dismal room in a city garret high Last Line: What misery when death becomes a hope! Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____ Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LAST MAN: DREAM OF DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand Last Line: Are these thy dreams! Variant Title(s): The Last Man; Fragment Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LAST THING I SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE LITTLE QUEEN'S SLEEP, by IRENE STEWART Poem Text First Line: Where is the little queen amaranthene Last Line: Deep and deep. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sleep THE LITTLE WINDOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The little window's open wide Last Line: It lets its own warm shining out. Subject(s): Darkness; January; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE LORDS OF PAIN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lords of pain are mightier by night Last Line: Whom music leads to sleep, and sleep to death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE LOST OCCASION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fair day and fading light! Last Line: The hero in the coming day! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Day; Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 17, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us sleep together here tonight Last Line: Our hearts are on the rocks Subject(s): Sleep; Togetherness THE LOVER'S SONNET. MIDNIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I waited through the night, while summer blew Last Line: Almost too great to bear my bliss appeared! Subject(s): Love; Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime THE LOVER'S VIGIL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe a song for love's delight Last Line: In a dusk of butterflies! Subject(s): Sleep; Love THE MAD THING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sirs, I have not seen him Last Line: O sirs, a hundred years I've wept. Subject(s): Sleep; Time THE MAN IN WHITE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, knowest thou the land Last Line: "and we shall be at home." Subject(s): Kisses; Sleep; Soldiers; Strangers; Time THE MAN WHO TROD ON SLEEPING GRASS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a field by cahirconlish Last Line: "he trod on sleeping grass." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Sleep THE MANDOLIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinkle-trink, tinkle-trink, trinkle-trinkle, trink! Last Line: Trink! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Rome, Italy; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares THE MOONLIGHT'S DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I wake at night, all the house at rest? Subject(s): Family Life; Sleep; Dreams; Night; Relatives; Nightmares; Bedtime THE MORNING FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked from my window Last Line: I thought them dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fields; Morning; Sleep; Waking; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MORNING SUN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the sun of afternoon Last Line: To drive a person crazy! Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood THE MOTHER'S SLEEP, by CHARLES ALEXIS KELLOGG JR. Poem Text First Line: Soft-borne and drowsy, muffled in the dark Last Line: Grow radiant, and drink deep the silver flood. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep; Yale University THE MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me to sleep in sheltering flame Last Line: My soul's desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Mysticism; Prayer; Religion; Sleep; Theology THE NIGHT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most holy night, that still dost keep Last Line: Most holy night. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Sleep THE NIGHT LIGHT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there is no moon Last Line: Has flown away! Subject(s): Beds; Children; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime THE OCCASIONAL ANGUISH OF BEDTIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is sister's party night Last Line: That's why they treat us so. Subject(s): Children; Discontent; Sleep; Childhood; Dissatisfaction THE OLD MAMMY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, lil baby, en go ter sleep Last Line: Er heap sight mo' dan his mudder do! Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants THE OLD SAINT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The day is gone, the solemn night draws down Last Line: God's city with the mansions of the blest. Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Rest; Sleep; Nightmares THE OLD SATYR TO THE YOUNG PLATONIST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go and get a monk for a lover Last Line: "his love was best of all!" Subject(s): Centaurs; Love; Monks; Moon; Sleep THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the old trundle-bed where I Last Line: Once bowed o'er my own in the old trundle-bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares THE OWL YOU HEARD, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The owl you heard hooting Subject(s): Owls; Sleep THE PAINS OF SLEEP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I lay Last Line: And whom I love, I love indeed. Subject(s): Love; Sleep THE PASSING OF A HEART, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O touch me with your hands Last Line: He touched her with his hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hands; Hearts; Sleep THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE PIT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great pascal had his pit always in sight Last Line: Ah! From time's menace never to win free! Subject(s): Fear; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Sleep THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET'S JOURNAL: UNDER THE MOON, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From you and home I sleep afar Last Line: Says in its beating: love is rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Sleep THE POPPY-LAND EXPRESS, by EDGAR WADE ABBOT Poem Text First Line: The first train starts at six p.M Last Line: "o'er the gentle engineer." Variant Title(s): Rapid Transit Subject(s): Railroads; Sleep; Railways; Trains THE POSTERN GATE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chose me a lovely garden Last Line: "is gilding the postern gate." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Life; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness THE PROMISE OF SLEEP, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put the sweet thoughts from out thy mind Last Line: That death is gentle too. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The THE QUIET NIGHTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unmindful of my low desert Last Line: And name my lovely nights of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; God; Night; Quiet Life; Sleep; Bedtime THE REAPER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me whither, maiden june Last Line: "the granary of sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep THE ROAD OF SLEEP, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He seems by day so strong, so gay! Last Line: "love, help me or I die! " Subject(s): Sleep THE ROAD TO SLUMBERLAND, by MARY DOW BRINE Poem Text First Line: What is the road to slumberland? And when does the baby go Last Line: To the beautiful city of slumberland when the sun is sinking low. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep THE ROMAUNT OF KING MORDAMEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Did ye hear of mordameer Last Line: And met him face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Fantasy; Sleep; Nightmares THE RUINES OF TIME, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It chaunced me on day beside the shore Last Line: And loath this drosse of sinfull worlds desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Sleep THE SACRAMENT OF SLEEP, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Thank god for sleep! Last Line: To feel the comfort of his soft embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Sacraments; Sleep; Theology THE SAND-MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What has this man got? A sack Last Line: And make you to sleep--will sand-man Subject(s): Sleep THE SANDMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The flowers have gone to bed Last Line: "sleep, my baby, sleep" Subject(s): Sleep THE SANDMAN, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: The rosy clouds float overhead Last Line: As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town. Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Sleep THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six young men of caesar's household Last Line: Led them unto paradise. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Religion; Sleep; Theology THE SIESTA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "airs, that wander and murmur round" Last Line: While my lady sleeps in the shade below Subject(s): Love;sleep THE SLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thoughts of god that are / borne inward unto souls afar Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Variant Title(s): He Giveth His Beloved Sleep;to Sleep Subject(s): Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE SLEEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God thought of sleep, so that he might Last Line: A youngling thing in his arms asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; God; Sleep THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SLEEP OF WOOD IN THE HOUSE OF WRENS, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Text First Line: It's not the wrens but the girl in overalls and a blouse Subject(s): Birds; Sleep; Wrens THE SLEEPER, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a strange lump of laziness here lies Last Line: Tis well if thou wak'st at the trumpet's sound. Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Lightly, lightly tread! Last Line: Oh! Lightly, lightly tread! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPER, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heavy breather in the surf of sleep Last Line: My wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE SLEEPER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the cloistral valley Last Line: Upon the lonely hill! Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glen was fair as some arcadian dell Last Line: Forget, like sleep; and then forgive, like death! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Peace; Sleep; Dead, The THE SLEEPER, by LAURA M. THURSTON Poem Text First Line: She sleepeth, and the summer breezes' sighing Last Line: But the freed spirit lives beyond the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Viola; Hawley, Laura M. Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPER'S PRAYER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As laura to the florentine Last Line: My soul shall wake to thine! Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No map traces the street Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares THE SLEEPERS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having slept so long, men do not wish to wake Last Line: And falls asleep again! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep with honey-dews hath bound her Last Line: Soon it will mourn its rest forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, and dream of heaven awhile Last Line: Remain within its sanctuary! Variant Title(s): To - Asleep Subject(s): Sleep THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sculptor in the marble found Last Line: Beneath the noonday skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Sleep THE SLEEPING WORLD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is asleep, all the cares of the day Last Line: While night holds its breath, and all nature is still. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE SLEEPY SONG, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON Poem Text First Line: As soon as the fire burns red and low Last Line: And she says that I fall asleep. Subject(s): Sleep THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvels of sleep, grown cold! Last Line: For when we wake -- with thee -- we shall be satisfied.' Subject(s): Churches; Lips; Love; Monuments; Silence; Sleep; Cathedrals THE SONG OF FIONULA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, brothers dear, sleep and dream Last Line: To sleep and dream, ah, that is well indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brothers; Comfort; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE SONG OF MUEZZIN ABOU, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at dawn and fling sleep from my eyes Last Line: Allahu akbar! 'llah il allah! Allah! Subject(s): India; Religion; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Theology THE STAIRWAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By this stairway narrow, steep Last Line: Sleep well, sweet friend, sleep well, dream deep! Subject(s): Sleep THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars their perfection Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars; Sleeplessness THE STUDENT; A FANTASIA, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sat the student alone in his chamber Last Line: The worship and praise of the sire! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE SUN IS DOWN, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is down, and time gone by Last Line: Gay dreams to all! Good night, good night! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE THREE POPLARS, by PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE Poem Text First Line: I shall have three grey poplar trees above me when I sleep Last Line: But upright as the staff of one who watcheth o'er his sheep. Subject(s): Night; Poplar Trees; Sleep; Bedtime THE TOMBLESS MAN; A DREAM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from sleep at midnight; all was dark Last Line: And the glad waters murmuring to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN: INVOCATION TO SLEEP, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Last Line: O, let my joys have some abiding! Subject(s): Sleep THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN: SLUMBER SONG, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Care-charming sleep, thou easer of all woes, / brother to death Last Line: And kiss him into slumbers like a bride. Variant Title(s): Song For The Sick Emperor;invocation To Sleep Subject(s): Sleep THE TWO DREAMS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met one in the land of sleep Last Line: So both were only dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE TWO OCEANS, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two seas, amid the night Last Line: Ne'er knew the track of a pilot. Subject(s): Rest; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE UNIVERSE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a little child beneath the stars Last Line: Fond universe asleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sleep THE VOICE OF DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palsied and fevered and blind Last Line: "ye will wake one day!"" it saith." Subject(s): Death; God; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The THE VOYAGE OF SLEEP, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON Poem Text First Line: To sleep I give myself away Last Line: And drift into the silent west. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep THE VOYAGER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far inland, where the sea Last Line: We part in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep THE WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds. Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise THE WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking; Bedtime; Theology THE WAKING, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue plums in the pewter bowl Last Line: I breathe moths in my cupped hands. Subject(s): Sleep; Waking THE WANDERER'S NIGHT SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who heaven's angel art Last Line: Come, oh come, to calm my breast. Subject(s): Sleep THE WARM CRADLE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, baby, hush Last Line: Dream, baby, dream. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WAVELET, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Once a merry little wavelet Last Line: Now and for evermore. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Fatigue THE WAY THE BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way the baby slept Last Line: And this is the way the baby slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 27: NO. 2), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lifeless garden of the moon Last Line: A little over the garden below. Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Women THE WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden o'erwearied Last Line: Thy lover is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World THE WORLD ASLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waking by night, a great and tender thought Last Line: One in the father's watch and ward of love. Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Sin; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THE WORLD IS SO TIRED, SKY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Tired, tired world Subject(s): Sleep; Weariness THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is like a star Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares THE WORLD'S SLEEP, by SARAH CHAMBERLIN WEED Poem Text First Line: Haste, cover yourself in the shrouded skies Last Line: And let the old world sleep. Subject(s): Sleep; Wellesley College THEIR BODIES LAY SO FAR, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Each night the self lay down to escape Last Line: Keeping going with its dead Subject(s): Life; Sleep THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come Last Line: And thou, with john, shalt lie upon my breast Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Calm; Sleep; Weariness THERE'S ANOTHER BLESSED HORSE FELL DOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and / sleeping sound Last Line: It's another blessed horse fell down.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sleep; War THEY SLEEP, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With tenderness, wracked Last Line: Heaving %outspread Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sleep THEY SLEEP, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outspread, heaving Last Line: Wracked %with tenderness Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sleep THICK SLEEP WHICH SHUT ALL DREAMS FROM ME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep THINK'ST THOU, THEN, BY FEIGNING, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, angry beauty, sleep, and fear not me Last Line: That she in peace may wake and pity me. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Sleep THREE DREAMS OF AN AMBITIOUS MAN, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first you feel safe in the middle of a crowd. Then the magician calls Last Line: You that it is useless to go on Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep THREE FATES: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O masquer, are you loth love sleep Last Line: To make the bed for you. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Destiny THREE FATES: 3, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lover, for the maze of doom Last Line: The sleep is much the same! Subject(s): Love; Sleep THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go when you go Last Line: Through the blind-world 'way in there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Sleep; Childhood THROUGH THE LAND A RIVER FLOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep TIRED OUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He does well who does his best Last Line: On its mother's gentle breast Subject(s): Sleep TIS PAST CONJECTURE; ALL THINGS RISE IN PROOF, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep TO A BLIND BABE, SLEEPING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are thy dreams dark? Or is the light Last Line: A kindling radiance appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Blindness; Sleep; Infants; Visually Handicapped TO A CHILD FALLING ASLEEP, by ROBERT ALDEN SANBORN Poem Text First Line: Over the dim edge of sleep I lean Last Line: Had laid the gift and breathed her childhood's prayer. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood TO A LADY WHO SENT ME A COPY OF VERSES AT MY GOING TO BED, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, your art or wit could ne'er devise Last Line: I, as the night invites me, fall asleep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep TO A SLEEPING MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Do not rudely wake her, nor reproach Last Line: That finds in dreams a world more fair than this. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sleep; Women; Nightmares TO A WATER LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dream, dream / perfume-laden one!" Last Line: Drowsy in dream! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;lilies;perfume;sleep; Nightmares TO BED, by LEE ANN BROWN Poem Source First Line: We must to bed %kind to bed Last Line: To the bed now %to bed Subject(s): Sleep TO DELIA: 45, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night Last Line: And never wake to feel the day's disdain. Variant Title(s): "to Delia: 51;sonnet On Sleep;to Delia: 49;""care-charmer Sleepe, Sonne Of The Sable Night""; Subject(s): Despair; Love; Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime TO EXPLAIN THE EYE, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The stratum of anomaly Last Line: An eye already seen Subject(s): Eyes; Sleep TO HIS BED, by ? HADDON Poem Source First Line: My bed, the rest of all my cares Last Line: Doe these, my bed, and then by thee %much comfort shall I find Subject(s): Sleep TO JUDITH ASLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon Last Line: Time still must tick this, I am, we are are Subject(s): Sleep; Time; Togetherness TO JUDITH ASLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon Last Line: Saga and century, sleep in familiar-far. %time still must tick this is, I am, we are Subject(s): Sleep TO LULU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only love Last Line: Like spokes of the same wheel! Subject(s): Flowers; God; Love; Pain; Rain; Sleep; Soul; Suffering; Misery TO MARIAN POWYS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lace-maker, what joys, what fears Last Line: And a dream beyond this dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares TO MUSIC; A FRAGMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver key of the fountain of tears Last Line: Is laid asleep in flowers. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sleep TO MUSICK, TO BECALME A SWEET-SICK-YOUTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere Last Line: Like to a slumbring bride, awake againe. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sleep TO ONE ASLEEP, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a rush and a growl at cannon street Last Line: Here is man's eldest son?' Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sleep; Social Classes; Weariness; Work; Workers; Caste; Fatigue TO ONE ASLEEP, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, do not wake, if sleeping be so dear Last Line: My cry into your dream that is so deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by GIOVANNI DELLA CASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, o tranquil son of noiseless night Last Line: (john addington symonds) Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sleep - oblivion's sire! Come, blessed sleep! Last Line: Wooed back to tread thy fields of asphodel. Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silent lover of a world day-worn Last Line: As one would pass from gentle friend to friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The TO SLEEP, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love's arsenal is dark Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by MAYBURY FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Sweet wooded way in life, forgetful sleep! Last Line: And man, unsinning, finds all nature good. Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! How far away it seems Last Line: If thou wilt come to-morrow, sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares TO SLEEP, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sleep! But mind ye! If you come without Last Line: For all your poppy-heads and all your down. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares TO SLEEP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 TO SLEEP, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, angel of the weary hearted! Last Line: Of all that is, that has been, and will be! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What horrid crime did gentle sleep displease? Last Line: Let him but call upon me in his way Alternate Author Name(s): Statius Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender mother, blind and dumb Last Line: Come now to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP AND TO FORGET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep and to forget, -- o blessed guerdon! Last Line: To sleep and to forget. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime TO SLEEP WITHOUT THEE IS TO DIE, by GERTRUDE PALMER VAUGHAN Poem Source Subject(s): Sleep TO SLEEP, WHEN SICK OF A FEVER, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are we who when our senses tire Last Line: Whom none could e'er but with clos'd eyelids see. Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness TO SLEEP; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep expand thy downy wing Last Line: That parts my soul from love—and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Love - Complaints; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (3), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dean, I'm in a sad condition Last Line: Some ending where they just begun. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE LAND OF SLEEP, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Night shades are falling, gone is the day Last Line: Like the love that comes from above. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Bedtime TO THE MORNING. SATISFACTION FOR SLEEP, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What succour can I hope the muse will send Last Line: Shut in their teares; shut out their miseryes. Subject(s): Sleep TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Coming out barefoot on the verandah Last Line: Pumpkins, cucumbers, and sugar-cane Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Towns TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My little love, my lily wan Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean TRAINS CARRYING SLEEPERS, by MAUREEN GIBBON Poem Source First Line: The dolphins made me stay in that town. The first time I saw them I Last Line: Did not split at the hip, that did not open and open Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Sleep; Travel TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES VINE DE PUY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, brave boy! In quiet sleep Last Line: As from the kingdom of the blest. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; War; Dead, The TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, SELS., by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hand obeys me not Subject(s): Sleep TROPICS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still morning when you move Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Tropics; Nightmares TRUE, BUT AS THEY SAY, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep TURN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After I come home from the meeting with friends Subject(s): Sleep TWILIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us go Last Line: Only the long, long love 'twixt thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sleep; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight TWO GATES THE SILENT HOUSE OF SLEEP ADORN, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Sleep TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals UNDINE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of como, whose rhythmical call Last Line: Lured there to ecstasy, lulled there to sleep. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Music & Musicians; Sleep UNFINISHED FRAGMENT (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, depart! For this is not your rest! Last Line: When he had risen, the shepherd good and fair. Subject(s): Calm; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gift for all our waking in this life Last Line: Is, said the man, a dreamless, mindless sleep Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Life; Sleep UNSPOKEN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a straight-laid, bordered path Last Line: Thus the silence tells the agony and pain. Subject(s): Home; Man-woman Relationships; Peace; Silence; Sleep; Male-female Relations VAPOROUS, UNACCOUNTABLE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping Last Line: Only. Would like to be that unnoticed %& thay necessary Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep VENETIAN FOLK LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, sleep, that hover'st round" Last Line: She goes a-singing to her child this song Subject(s): Sleep VERSES MADE IN SWIFT'S SLEEP, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walk before no man, a hawk in his fist Last Line: Nor, 'am I a brilliant, whenever I list Subject(s): Sleep VIA DOLOROSA: 4. LIBITINA VERTICORDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of sleep, healer of life, divine Last Line: That if they wake their life is sweet as sleep. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The VIGIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should it irk me, the night Last Line: Dearest, be mine with daybreak! Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Wind; Bedtime VILLAGE SLEEP SONG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! All who toil Last Line: And all you little children, sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Sleep; Villages VILLANCICO, by JUAN DE LA ELCINA Poem Source First Line: So rare a flock Last Line: But ever faithful guard! Subject(s): Night; Sleep VILLANELLE OF SUNSET, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, child! And rest Last Line: Behold, the weary west! Subject(s): Sleep VIOLIN SONGS: BEDTIME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, children, put away your toys Last Line: Coming to carry us to bed. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Sleep; Childhood; Relatives VIOLIN SONGS: FOOLISH CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking in the night to pray Last Line: Make us good as we go home. Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: GOING TO SLEEP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, you must not fret Last Line: Saith the little brother. Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Death; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VOLFRAM, SELS, by MILAN JESIH Poem Source First Line: Unseen angels walk noiselessly-barefoot without stirring the wind Last Line: I take a clean napkin; an immense drop of the sun's light floods the shadows %of earth Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Thought WAGES OF SELF-INTEREST, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes there is only the sorting of dry Last Line: Of loss this law of desiring corrupting what he %desires these equal and opposite reactions Subject(s): Desire; Self; Sleep WAITING IN WINTER (1), by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Text First Line: They were tired, tired, and outside Last Line: And earth and heaven looked harsh. . . . Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Paradise WAITING IN WINTER (2), by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Source First Line: They were tired, tired and outside Last Line: That overbloomed their hearts and now was dead Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep WAKEFULNESS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jolt of market-carts Last Line: Will the day come before you have opened to me? Subject(s): Sleep WAKEFULNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, idly drifting, where thought's varied streams Last Line: Sleep, sweet sleep! Subject(s): Brooks; Sleep; Streams; Creeks WAKING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep Last Line: Except the man that woke and then was I. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares WAKING, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Whither through the morning fled Last Line: Seek to influence—or defeat? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Waking WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Last Line: I learn by going where I have to go Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking WAKING AT 3 A.M., by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time humans feel closest to the grave Last Line: Try to touch him. I dare you. %try to kiss her Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Sleep WAKING DREAMS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: I heed thee not! Then, sleep, away Last Line: Too brightly to be sunk in sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep WANING MOON, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: I rise at midnight when the first Last Line: Lend you the crickets' cadence %to walk home by Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep WANTING TO GO TO THE EASTERN CLIFF, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Used a cloud as a pillow and went to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Sleep; Zen Buddhism WARNING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not touch him - do not wake him! Last Line: Whilst her child is in the cradle -- slumbers pass too soon away. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sleep; Work; Workers WAS IT THAT I WENT TO SLEEP, by ONO NO KOMACHI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I should not have wakened Alternate Author Name(s): Ono Komachi Subject(s): Sleep WATCHING; IN BURMAH, by EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, love, sleep! Last Line: Night deepens, and I sit, in cheerless doubt alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Fanny; Judson, Emily E. Subject(s): Burma; Rest; Sleep WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: The burden of dumah. Silence. What of the / night? Last Line: With longing for that messianic morn. Subject(s): Jews; Night; Peace; Sleep; Judaism; Bedtime WATER NIGHT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky behind the farthest shore Subject(s): Sleep WE RETURN FROM THE COUNTRY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Moss stained, rejoicing in the swarm of lights Subject(s): Art And Artists; Pain; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Weariness WE SHALL SLEEP, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Let me lie on fragrant earth tonight Last Line: —and I shall be content. Subject(s): Rest; Silence; Sleep WE TERM SLEEP A DEATH, AND YET IT IS WAKING THAT KILLS, by THOMAS BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep WHAT HOLDS YOU, by KELLY RITTER Poem Source First Line: Late december Last Line: And spilling over, %like the last and the last Subject(s): Beauty; December; Sleep WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing Last Line: When they take away our tears. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime WHAT THE CAT KNOWS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHAT THE CAT KNOWS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHAT TO DO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh my love and my own own deary Last Line: While my life goes creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love; Sleep WHAT USE IS IT TO SLUMBER HERE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Sleep WHAT, NO SHEEP!, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't need no sleepin' medicine Last Line: An' their wonderful electric blanket? Subject(s): Sleep WHEN BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby Last Line: When baby donned her dreams, and slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Infants; Nightmares WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares WHEN CHILDREN SLEEP, by LEON GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When cradled by their mothers' side Last Line: Their angels visit them no more. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Sin; Sleep; Childhood WHEN MOST, I SAY, MINE EYES BE BLESSED MADE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep WHEN SLEEP DELAYS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sleep delays, yet thought is but a sorrow Last Line: Of your devising. Subject(s): Sleep WHEN YOU COME TO SLEEP WITH ME LIKE GOD, by YONA WALLACH Poem Source First Line: Come sleep with me like god Last Line: Like all those of yours %always on the way Subject(s): God; Religion; Sleep WHERE YOU MAY REST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant mead Last Line: Where thy heart may rest. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Rest; Sleep; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones WHERE YOUR FEET GO, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where your feet go no wind stirs Last Line: On my lids the gradual seal. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares WHILE ASLEEP, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Were it not for the teddy bear forgotten on the lawn, the Last Line: Shepherd, it is much too soon to die, first I must learn to throw a good hard stone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets; Railroad Stations; Sleep; Travel WHILE GETTING WELL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sits on my window-sill Last Line: I think he understands! Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Sleep; Childhood; Illness WHILE I SLEEP, by MIRIAM LEVINE Poem Source First Line: While I sleep john stretches in front of the fire Last Line: And my lungs take into their wet calls %the dry breaths of my life Subject(s): Sleep WHILE JOURNEYING, by KANG GANGWOL Poem Source First Line: While journeying a thousand miles Last Line: Each morning, I awake %my vision spilling Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Travel WHITE ROSES, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sleep like hers, no rest Last Line: Till god's good day. Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Sleep WHO DOESN'T DREAM, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: I saw a rat come across the road Last Line: Not unlike birds set up without wings Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rest; Sleep WHOSE ARE THE LITTLE BEDS,' I ASKED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When april woods are red Subject(s): Beds; Sleep WHY FREEZE, by HANU Poem Source First Line: Why freeze to sleep Last Line: Tonight, I'll have a sleep that thaws Subject(s): Cold; Dreams; Frost; Sleep; Solitude; Winter WIEGENLIED, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still and sleep, my soul! Last Line: Be still and sleep, my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Sleep; Soul; Transcendentalism WILD BOUQUET, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gathered into a bouquet, the restless bluebells tremble Last Line: Get back here before autumn takes over Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep WINDOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I woke in the darkness Last Line: They were. But I remember Subject(s): Sleep; Windows WINSTANLEY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes Last Line: Winstanley lieth low. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Storms; Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-1660); Bedtime; Ocean; Songs WINTER SLEEP, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When against earth a wooden heel Last Line: Soft, soft, soft, and deep, deep, deep! Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Winter WITHIN THE ORB ITSELF, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep WOKEN ABRUPTLY, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: No, I can't wake up see there is this Last Line: And its identity even now Subject(s): Sleep; Surprise WOMAN SLEEPING IN THE MORNING, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Her body Last Line: Between glaciers Subject(s): Sleep WOMAN SLEEPS ON AN ISLAND, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: She is an island %surrounded by stars Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep WOMEN'S SLEEP, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Old women often sleep so heavily Last Line: But the sleep doors are too stiff. They sleep %deep as cement, and recognize no one Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Rest; Sleep WORK TIME AND SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Daytime is the time for light Last Line: For god then puts the sun's light out. Subject(s): Night; October; Sleep; Bedtime WORLD OF MY DREAMS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Something softly at close of day Last Line: Keeps calling to me, calling to me. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares WORST THAT CAN BEFALL THEE, MEASUR'D RIGHT, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Sleep WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wynken, blynken, and nod one night Last Line: And nod. Variant Title(s): A Dutch Lullaby;wynken, Blynken, And Nod Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares YEARS, by PATRICIA WILSON Poem Source First Line: Now I don't think about them that often, his last hours, though I have Last Line: Forty-five years Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Sleep YELLOW MOON LOOKS SLANTLY DOWN, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Within some dead old world of dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep YOU DON'T BELIEVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't believe I won't attempt to make ye Last Line: Try ,try & never mind the reason why Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep YOU WERE, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: You were white sky Last Line: In a wild prairie-hill bed. Subject(s): Beds; Poetry & Poets; Sleep YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shet yo' eyes, ma little pickaninny, go to sleep Last Line: Makes you lubly in yo' mammy's sight Subject(s): Sleep YOUNGSTER AND OLDSTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she not fair? Last Line: Is one right, or the other -- or are both? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Nightmares YOUTH'S SLEEP, by HENEL FOLEY Poem Source First Line: Youth's sleep's a soft grey bird that Subject(s): Sleep ZALINKA, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in a land of triangles Last Line: Slept with her hands in my hair. Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Male-female Relations |
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