Sunday 15 March 2015

CARE CHARMER SLEEP













From
Delia
by Samuel Daniel


XLV

                                          CARE-CHARMER Sleep, son of the sable Night,
                                          Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,
                                          Relieve my languish, and restore the light ;
                                          With dark forgetting of my care return.
                                          And let the day be time enough to mourn
                                         The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth :
                                          Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn,
                                          Without the torment of the night's untruth.
                                          Cease, dreams, the images of day-desires,
                                          To model forth the passions of the morrow ;
                                          Never let rising Sun approve you liars
                                          To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow :
                                          Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain,
                                          And never wake to feel the day's disdain.


 
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