Love
Sleeping Beauty
Love
O Sight too dearely bought!
Shee sleeps, and though those Eyes
Which lighten Cupids Skies
Be clos'd, yet such a grace
Environeth that Place,
That I through Wonder to grow faint am brought:
Suns if ecclips'd you have such power divine,
What power have I t' endure you when you shine?
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MLA
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “Sleeping Beauty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/120/.
Chicago
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “Sleeping Beauty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/120/.
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