Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO SLEEP, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN


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TO SLEEP, by                     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


O SILENT lover of a world day-worn,
Taking the weary light to thy dusk arms,
Stealing where pale forms lie, sun-hurt and torn,
Waiting the balm of thy oblivious charms,
Make me thy captive ere I guess pursuit,
And cast me deep within some dreamless close,
Where hopes stir not, and white, wronged lips are mute,
And Pain's hot wings fold down o'er hushed woes.
And if ere morn thou choosest me to free,
Let it not be, dear jailer, through the door
That timeward opes, but to eternity
Set thou the soul that needs thee nevermore;
So I from sleep to death may softly wend
As one would pass from gentle friend to friend.





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