Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25, by THOMAS CAMPION


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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


Sleep, angry beauty, sleep and fear not me!
For who a sleeping lion dares provoke?
It shall suffice me here to sit and see
Those lips shut up that never kindly spoke:
What sight can more content a lover's mind
Than beauty seeming harmless, if not kind?
My words have charmed her, for secure she sleeps,
Though guilty much of wrong done to my love;
And in her slumber, see! she close-eyed weeps:
Dreams often more than waking passions move.
Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
That she in peace may wake and pity me.







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