Love

And on My Eyes Dark Sleep by Night

by Michael Field 1846–1914 (Bradley) and 1862–1913 (Cooper)

From A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field (1923)

Love

Come, dark-eyed Sleep, thou child of Night,
Give me thy dreams, thy lies;
Lead through the horny portal white
The pleasure day denies.

O bring the kiss I could not take
From lips that would not give;
Bring me the heart I could not break,
The bliss for which I live.

I care not if I slumber blest
By fond delusion; nay.
Put me on Phaon's lips to rest,
And cheat the cruel day!

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From Long Ago, as marked in the 1923 Selection.

MLA

Field, Michael. “And on My Eyes Dark Sleep by Night.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/133/.

Chicago

Field, Michael. “And on My Eyes Dark Sleep by Night.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/133/.

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