Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SLEEP, THE ALMONER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: Adown the voids and vastnesses of night
Last Line: Adown the voids and vastnesses of night!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Sleep


ADOWN the voids and vastnesses of night
Haste thou to me, oh, almoner of Rest!
Come with thy fardel full of fairest dreams,
And strew them round about me, as the spring
Scatters the cloistral wake-robins in May;
For I am over-wearied, and would dwell
Only with fantasy; would droop and drowse
Lulled as with lutes; would lie on blossom-beds
Scented with savors of oblivion;
Down paradisal streams would glide 'neath sails
Tinted like golden gonfalons; would taste
Honeys more luscious than are those that ooze
From the bruised cells of Hymettean combs!
All this for gift is thine, oh, almoner!
Then speed thee on thy pinions snow-fall soft
Adown the voids and vastnesses of night!





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