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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLEEPING TOGETHER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD 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 together... how tired you were... How warm our room... how the firelight spread On walls and ceiling and great white bed! We spoke in whispers as children do, And now it was I -- and then it was you Slept a moment, to wake -- "My dear, I'm not at all sleepy," one of us said.... Was it a thousand years ago? I woke in your arms -- you were sound asleep -- And heard the pattering sound of sheep. Softly I slipped to the floor and crept To the curtained window, then, while you slept, I watched the sheep pass by in the snow. O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear Shivering, desolate, out in the cold, That entered into my heart to fold! A thousand years... was it yesterday When we two children of far away, Clinging close in the darkness, lay Sleeping together?... How tired you were.... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 3 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 22 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE GOING TO SLEEP by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN THE BLUE NAP by WILLIAM MATTHEWS A FEW RULES FOR BEGINNERS by KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
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