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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S SLEEPLESSNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose
Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness
First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose
Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness
I CAN no more mine eyes to sleep compose,
And thou alone sweet orb of my unrest!
Yet think not I would shrive thee from my breast,
Nor lose one pearl of grief thy love bestows.
Whilst thou, close-shelter'd like a folded rose,
In spirit realms immeasurably blest,
Art dreaming of a love thy tears caress'd,
Unwistful of thy lover and his woes.
Oh, would that I might tend thy tranquil sleep,
And guard the passage of thine incensed breath!—
To dwell upon thy breast's entrancing steep
Were all of Heaven, and too much of Death—
The heart that once had beat so near to thine
Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine!
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