Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AMORIS EXSUL: 7. LOVE AND SLEEP, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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First Line: I have laid sorrow to sleep
Last Line: Love sleeps.
Subject(s): Love; Sleep


I have laid sorrow to sleep,
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.

I loved, and have forgot,
And yet
Love tells me she will not
Forget.

She it was bid me go;
Love goes
By what strange ways, ah! no
One knows.

Because I cease to weep,
She weeps.
Here by the sea in sleep.
Love sleeps.





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