Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG (5), by CHARLES COTTON


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First Line: See how the twilight slumber falls
Last Line: That I may look on her and live.
Variant Title(s): Song. Set By Mr. Coleman
Subject(s): Caregivers; Love


SEE how the twilight slumber falls
To obscure the glory of those balls
And as she sleeps
See how light creeps
Through the chinks, and beautifies
The rayey fringe of her fair eyes.

Observe love's feuds, how fast they fly
To every heart from her closed eye:
What then will she,
When waking be
A glowing light for all to admire
Such as would set the world on fire.

Then seal her eyelids, gentle sleep,
While cares of her mine open keep:
Lock up, I say.
Those doors
Which with the morn for lustre strive
That I may look on her and live.





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