Love
To Sleep
From The Ride to the Lady (1891)
All slumb'rous images that be, combined,
To this white couch and cool shall woo thee, Sleep!
First will I think on fields of grasses deep
In gray-green flower, o'er which the transient wind
Runs like a smile; and next will call to mind
How glistening poplar-tops, when breezes creep
Among their leaves, a tender motion keep,
Stroking the sky, like touch of lovers kind.
Ah, having felt thy calm kiss on mine eyes,
All night inspiring thy divine pure breath,
I shall awake as into godhood born,
And with a fresh, undaunted soul arise,
Clear as the blue convolvulus at morn.
--Dear bedfellow, deals thus thy brother, Death?
Cite this poem
MLA
Cone, Helen Gray. “To Sleep.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/93/.
Chicago
Cone, Helen Gray. “To Sleep.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/93/.
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