Social Commentaries
On a Sleeping Friend
From Sonnets and Verse (1923)
Social Commentaries
Lady, when your lovely head
Droops to sink among the Dead,
And the quiet places keep
You that so divinely sleep;
Then the dead shall blessèd be
With a new solemnity,
For such Beauty, so descending,
Pledges them that Death is ending.
Sleep your fill--but when you wake
Dawn shall over Lethe break.
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MLA
Belloc, Hilaire. “On a Sleeping Friend.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/belloc/175/.
Chicago
Belloc, Hilaire. “On a Sleeping Friend.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/belloc/175/.
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