Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHE WENT TO SLEEP BELOW, by EDWARD SAPIR


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SHE WENT TO SLEEP BELOW, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She went to sleep below
Last Line: Of their constrained rest.
Subject(s): Sleep


She went to sleep below
The rootlets of the grass;
Her face waxen, composed,
Like dark subtle brass.

She went to sleep below,
Her face waxen, composed,
Her body cold as snow,
The eyelids closed.

She took but little down
Where there was little room;
She was at once the bride
And her own bridegroom.

There shone upon her bed
Neither candle nor stars;
Not the palest moon
Straggled through the bars.

The sun rose from the sea
Passing by her bed,
Yet thereby not at all
Was her face illumined,

But rested very still,
Neither darkened nor lit,
And there came hardly a word
Through the lips' tiny slit;

Nor changed the two hands crossed
Upon the quiet breast,
Not being weary at all
Of their constrained rest.





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